South end Powell / stripers

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We did one of those "spur of the moment" trips to Powell on Saturday. Dad called Friday and said "we should go to Powell", so we hit the road at 5:30 a.m. Met up with W2U in Kanab at almost 8. Arrived at Wahweap at a little after 8. and headed towards Antelope. We found our wall, and started chumming. It took about 15 minutes to get the stripers up, but once they came we were able to consistently catch fish. Well, most of us. W2U struggled a little bit early on -- the little kids were outfishing him, and that was making him a little ornery. But once he figured it out he caught his fair share of stripers too!

We ended up taking a boat rid to the back of Navajo Canyon as well. We could pick up a few fish trolling and casting -- not nearly as fast as chumming, but it was still worth it. After beaching the boat and fileting our fish (the fish cleaning station at Wahweap is currenlty out of service) we headed back out to the "power in-take" to finish of the last of our bait.

Between the 6 of us (4 adults and 2 kids) I'm positive we boated over 100 stripers. It sure was a fun day of fishing!







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