09-04-2014, 09:49 PM
[#0000FF]TubeBabe and I met up with Masterdaad (MD) at Rock Cliff launch on Jordanelle this morning. Got there about 6:30 and MD was already afloat...no fish yet. Air temp a cool 42. Water was 64...warming to 65 about noon.
Had to launch about 150 yards out on the old road bed...out from the end of the ramp. Water level is low and getting lower. Decent launching for float tubes, kayaks, paddleboards and swimmers (see pics). But only a couple of boats wandered up into our private lake from other launch areas.
The past two days of wind plus the front moving through last night probably didn't help. Fish were scarce on sonar and even more so on our lines. We had to do a lot of searching to scratch what we did.
MD was top rod for numbers. He worked over the small smallies most of the morning...with Senkos and other smallie offerings. TubeBabe and I were mostly doing a perch search...bouncing small tube jigs along the bottom. She caught the first perch. Then I caught one a little later...a small one. That was it for the perch. But we both caught enough small smallies...on accident...to get our tug quota.
I scored the only trout of the trip...a nice 17 inch rainbow...on a black and red hot-head fly pattern fished behind a copper jig. Lots of zing on my string. Much fun.
As TubeBabe and I were moving back toward the launch area to pack up and boogie, MD hollered over the walkie talkies that he had found a perch patch. He caught several nice ones and kept telling us to come join them. But we had to make an early day of it. So did he, but he was fighting off having to leave so he could score a few more perch for his family. They like perch. Who doesn't?
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Had to launch about 150 yards out on the old road bed...out from the end of the ramp. Water level is low and getting lower. Decent launching for float tubes, kayaks, paddleboards and swimmers (see pics). But only a couple of boats wandered up into our private lake from other launch areas.
The past two days of wind plus the front moving through last night probably didn't help. Fish were scarce on sonar and even more so on our lines. We had to do a lot of searching to scratch what we did.
MD was top rod for numbers. He worked over the small smallies most of the morning...with Senkos and other smallie offerings. TubeBabe and I were mostly doing a perch search...bouncing small tube jigs along the bottom. She caught the first perch. Then I caught one a little later...a small one. That was it for the perch. But we both caught enough small smallies...on accident...to get our tug quota.
I scored the only trout of the trip...a nice 17 inch rainbow...on a black and red hot-head fly pattern fished behind a copper jig. Lots of zing on my string. Much fun.
As TubeBabe and I were moving back toward the launch area to pack up and boogie, MD hollered over the walkie talkies that he had found a perch patch. He caught several nice ones and kept telling us to come join them. But we had to make an early day of it. So did he, but he was fighting off having to leave so he could score a few more perch for his family. They like perch. Who doesn't?
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