06-03-2004, 05:29 AM
I had a day off today and talked my dad in to hauling the boat up to Jordanelle this morning. Grandma decided she wanted to come for a boat ride too, and I always thing the more poles in the water the better. We got up there about 9 and went down to the Rock Creek arm where it's wakeless. We cast towards shore with gitzits and jigs in chartreuse, pink, and crawfish colors. We didn't catch anything for a while. Dad hooked in to a nice Brown that went about 22 inches and 4 pounds. It was a beautiful fish with great coloring and was shaped like a football. He was released to fight another day. After a while of very little action, I switched to some small lures, around 1/8 and 1/16 oz. We tipped them with emerald shiners that you can buy at the store. That seemed to be the trick. We started getting a lot of perch, intermingled with small walleye (about 3 or 4) and I lost count of how many perch. Just cast towards the shore and finesse your jig back to the boat and you'll be in to them. I only caught 3 smallmouth, and they were all small. I would like to know how to get in to the bigger smallmouth on Jordanelle. I tried Senkos, gitzits, rapalas, shad raps, and everything else I could think of running them slow and deep between 15 and 20 feet. I love catching those guys and it's frustrating when you can't get the size of fish that you'd like. It's no problem killing them at Powell. At Jordanelle I seem to struggle for bigger fish.
Anyhow, Grandma had fun catching a million perch, and the Brown made for a nice day. That's what I like about Jordanelle. You never know what will be on the other end. Good fishing to you all, and any advice would be appreciated.
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Anyhow, Grandma had fun catching a million perch, and the Brown made for a nice day. That's what I like about Jordanelle. You never know what will be on the other end. Good fishing to you all, and any advice would be appreciated.
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