01-05-2020, 06:09 AM
There definitely were a lot of fisher-folk out there today. A buddy and I arrived there in the afternoon just as the armies were beginning their retreat.
We headed to the SE corner and found some holes that were already drilled. Dropped down and the perch were on for my buddy. Not so much for me. The last few times we've gone to Hyrum the jig color didn't matter, but they seemed to prefer shrimp. Today that was not the case. I was marking fish, but even dropping right on their noses I was getting no takers. I finally switched jig colors and traded the shrimp for meal worms and started getting fish. It was hot until it was not. I decided to switch back to shrimp and then in was hot until it was not.
My buddy probably caught 40+ perch to my 20 something. The smallest were around 7 inches. Many of those went back down the hole. Some of the biggest were pushing 10 inches. They got invited home for dinner. I did manage one 14 inch rainbow, which is still swimming if anybody else wants to go find him.
Highlight of the trip was meeting a father/son duo that were still learning the game. We gave them some lures and some tips and the young man started pulling perch out of the hole left and right. Hopefully it helped create some fun memories for him.
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We headed to the SE corner and found some holes that were already drilled. Dropped down and the perch were on for my buddy. Not so much for me. The last few times we've gone to Hyrum the jig color didn't matter, but they seemed to prefer shrimp. Today that was not the case. I was marking fish, but even dropping right on their noses I was getting no takers. I finally switched jig colors and traded the shrimp for meal worms and started getting fish. It was hot until it was not. I decided to switch back to shrimp and then in was hot until it was not.
My buddy probably caught 40+ perch to my 20 something. The smallest were around 7 inches. Many of those went back down the hole. Some of the biggest were pushing 10 inches. They got invited home for dinner. I did manage one 14 inch rainbow, which is still swimming if anybody else wants to go find him.
Highlight of the trip was meeting a father/son duo that were still learning the game. We gave them some lures and some tips and the young man started pulling perch out of the hole left and right. Hopefully it helped create some fun memories for him.
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