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Fished the berry with my friends folks this weekend. Wind was in effect as was snow and rain on Friday and Saturday. Good fishing on mono pulling cranks with no weight. Person that gave me the Rapala suggestions were right on with a countdown, didn't try a taildancer. Next time I'll have to. I also caught fish on a YoZuri rainbow trout pattern crank. Its called an L minnow. All the fish were slot cutts and under with Kim's mother catching a big kokanee at the mouth of Soldier Creek. We didn't troll very fast, partly because of the wind but there were a few times mid morning where we couldn't keep the fish off. Fish were in about 20-30 feet of water and I didn't get temps before anyone asks. Sorry. I fished Diamond Fork too and caught a couple fish before I headed home. thanks to everyone that suggested lures and tactics.....some of the lures that I got didn't work but I'm sure it was me and the methods we used that kept them from getting the fish. Thanks to all, because of you and this site, I had a great time.
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Glad you got into the fish. You failed to let us know if you outfished your girl friend's mother or not?
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Sounds like my trip. The water temps were 42-46* over the weekend on the mud creek berry bay side. How did the contest go>?
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Ha! DOH!! either way the water was warmer than the air temps.
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Hey good report! Were those couple a fish you picked up in Diamond Fork Browns? If so, how big?
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Hey congrats riverrat glad the countdown rapalas worked out for you! Glad to hear you got into the fish. I spent all Sat. at work and doing a programming project for school. I spent half monday at a dealer helping my sister in law get a new car, and the other half with my wife. Still itchin to go fishin.
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K, here is the big report on what worked, didn't work, etc..... I caught all my fish on a black over gold #5 countdown rapala. It was fished with no weight. I also caught fish on Sunday morning on a Yo Zuri L minnow pattern if a foil rainbow trout pattern. Its the really shiny trout pattern. The Koke mentioned in an earlier post was caught on a lime green spinner.... Her mom wouldn't let me get a close enough look at it to see the brand but it looked a lot like a sixth ounce rooster tail. I caught all my fish except one at the mouth of soldier creek coming right out of the channel into the soldier creek side of the lake. Kims mom caught the kokanee right there as we were making a turn to go back over this hole we found. Her lure was on the inside of the turn and when we straightened out , the lure jigged back upwards and thats when the fish hit. It was really windy with about two 1/2 foot to three foot swells every afternoon and whoever said the water was warmer than the air above was absolutely right. I tried various spoons and other color rapalas but nothing else worked for me. Kim's dad did catch his fish on a black and silver countdown on lead core line with about four and a half colors out......that is until the wind took his line and blew it into his prop!!! [sly] About the fishing contest, her mom got started before I got up there but I wound up with fourteen fish over two mornings, her mom was second with 10 fish over two days, dads friend richard has nine fish, and her dad wound up with seven. We did lose a bunch of fish right at the boat..... to say the least, we aren't the most experienced net crew around but it was a great time. Her mom won big fish of the weekend with the Koke, which was the first one I'd ever seen in person, so that was very cool.
Now for those of you interested in Diamond Fork...... Both the fish I caught were browns, caught on soft plastics. I missed several little rats before I caught the little fish. I did catch one fifteen inch brown with a huge head but a skinny little body....> I think I've caught him before but I can never be sure since I don't tag them or anything. It was nice, there weren't tons of people and the road back there has gotten much better. I heard from the Forest Service that they plan on opening all of Diamond Fork up this month.....but I didn't drive down the road to find out if its open yet. I just fished the upper end. Hope this makes for good reading for everyone and thanks to all for the advice, suggestions and support.
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[size 1]"Her mom wouldn't let me get a close enough look at it to see the brand but it looked a lot like a sixth ounce rooster tail."[/size]
Wow, that is one competitive woman/family! Happy to read that you won the informal (or was it formal?) fishing contest.
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I think she was just competitive because of all the smack she talked to me at work all week long about how she would catch all the fish and I would get nothin. Well, thanks to the folks on this site and a bit of luck, I managed to outfish her....in numbers anyway. I did catch two 17+ cutts and one honest 18, that was really nice and fat but nothing like that Kokanee. Also, I forgot to post earlier, we ran past the ladders and some of the coves on that side about 75 yards out from shore and I picked up the fish on the Yo Zuri crankbait over there. Sorry, I made it sound like all my fish came out of Soldier Creek but that wasn't the case. We trolled the Berry river channel on Sunday morning on the way back to the marina and I was the only one to catch a fish over there in front of Mud Creek and that was the only fish all weekend from that side. Everything else came from the windy side of the lake. The family is really competitive with thier fishing but its all in fun and its nice to be able to shut them up with a good fish or two... it was almost funny how quick she went quiet when I started yanking fish. [cool] But like I said, it was a great trip and it always makes me laugh and get excited trolling....You never see your rod do that on a stream, thats for sure..... I think thats what I like the most is seeing the rod come flying down towards the water and straining to get out of the holder..... Its a hoot. Everyone should do this trip once in thier time here in Utah....Its well worth it.
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It is great fun to have one of those kokanee at Flaming Gorge or Strawberry hit. They are the only fish (never caught a mack trolling) that will almost always snap the rubber band on my downrigger release.
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