Smallmouth in Utah

[bassrods]

Sense you and your bro likes to miss lead and put anything that has to do with anything but trout lets put out the real truth..

First back in the 80's until 85 both stripers and shad was doing great or so the DWR was saying so, but many fisherman was saying they need to take the limit off the striper..

Then the crash all in one winter..

Then very hard times for all the fish in Powell..Then the Feds. by way of a dam in NM we got other shad (that lots of fisherman had been saying would help Powell out) ..
But if you remember the DWR was saying the shad would hurt the lake and eat all the plankton and the little bass and other minnows would starve..

So far the lake is doing great and the striper at Powell are doing great, a boater at Powell found a striper on the surface had another striper in its mouth but after pulling out the fish the bigger striper was let go and swim away..OH yes looking at the picture the big fish looked to be around 30lb..
When you have striper at any given time you can have skinny fish most may just be sick..I fished Powell many times in winter and find the striper in great shape with a skinny one in some spots..

I think we was talking about SM bass in Jordanelle??
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