03-18-2013, 04:09 AM
I'm an avid fisherman and just wanted to start a thread to update everyone each time I fish. Ill try to post as much as I can. Well here's the first report. Went to Utah Lake fri 3/15: American Fork harbor has plenty of open water. Fished for 1 hr with jigs, no luck. Provo harbor has open open water, spoke with some people there who stated it has been slow and only caught a trout. Lincoln beach was pretty much iced with limited open water. We did fish at a spot where you need waders and I caught a walleye.
For Willard Bay I went on sat 3/16: It is iced on freeway bay. Did not go into the north or south marina just by the way freeway bay looked. I did fish near the south marina and caught 3 wipers while others around me were catching walleye left to right. I tried to release the wipers because they are still small, but they were already struggling to survive so i kept them. I decided to go today 3/17 and caught myself a walleye. Didn't stay too long because the weather got bad. Pics posted.
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For Willard Bay I went on sat 3/16: It is iced on freeway bay. Did not go into the north or south marina just by the way freeway bay looked. I did fish near the south marina and caught 3 wipers while others around me were catching walleye left to right. I tried to release the wipers because they are still small, but they were already struggling to survive so i kept them. I decided to go today 3/17 and caught myself a walleye. Didn't stay too long because the weather got bad. Pics posted.
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I'm actually going again tomorrow. The weather looks like it's going to be a lot cooler this week. It's really too soon to say what is good or not. This was my first weekend of fishing for the year and since the weather was nice my friend and I just decided to "test" it out. It seems like the walleyes are spawning and they like cold water so it should be fairly good now and continue to be better in the next following weeks. I was surprise about the wipers but I figure all the fish are pretty hungry with the ice and all. Wipers usually get more active with the warmer water, but we did pretty good starting in April last year. Its usually better in the morning before 10am and picks up again after 5pm. But again, I caught plenty last year throughout the whole day. For this weekend, I caught the first wiper at noon and the second/third around 4pm. I missed about 5 in between those hrs. The walleye i caught about 8am, but i saw people catching them throughout the whole day the day prior. I hope this helps and will post about my day tomorrow.
. it has been this way since the early eighties to help protect the spawning walleye. Now if iam reading the 2013 guidebook right you can fish there? This has got to be a wrong.
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