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Jeeze, I've had a good week down on the Jordan River. I found this nice eddied up hole down around Bluffdale, or sommat like that. Way south of where I normally fish. The cats were going crazy! It was about every 10 minutes at the most I'd get a decent sized channel, or a smaller mud cat. They all loved the good old sucker meat. Gotta love that stuff...
I finished this weekend with about 30 channels, and a whole lot more mud cats. I couldn't resist some good old kitty krispies, either, so I kept 7 of them. The rest I let go. It sure was nice being out when the weather's so nice. Made it even better to have the cats goin nuts like they were.
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nice report.... i have a spot down in near bluffdale that i have caught some really big cats out of... good to ssee u got into them...
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Nice work on the k's. Makes me want some fried kitty treats!
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Great to hear catching catfish where close to salt lake. Would you please point out the access to the river? which exit on I-15? Thanks.
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[cool]Nice job on the kitties, kid! And, you even caught them upstream from West Jordan (where that raw sewage gets dumped in from that subdivision that didnt' get hooked up to the city sewer).
I've gotta get out and catch some K's soon. Glad my birthday is only about two weeks away, 'cause I'm calling in sick that day and heading to the kittie hole (Lincoln Beach).
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I am not familiar with the river. Is the river running from south to north? where is the dump station? Is the fish eatable?
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[cool][#0000ff]The river does indeed flow from south to north. It begins at the "pumps" just south of the Hwy 73 bridge in Lehi, and then flows north through fields and through the narrows below Camp Williams and on to the Salt Lake valley. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The "dumping" area referred to was a mistake by the developers in a residential area near 7200 South. They mistakenly ran the sewer lines into wastewater drainage lines instead of into the lines that went to the sewage treatment plant. That meant that for several years there was raw sewage entering the Jordan River at that point. The bad news is that even though they now know their mistake, it has not been corrected. Seems that it is up to each individual property owner in the subdivision to pay for their own reconnection. Not good.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Even below that area there should be no real problem with eating the fish, other than esthetics. Water quality tests have not revealed unsafe levels of coliform bacteria. There is a lot of water coming down the river that "flushes" out the bad stuff.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The fish taken upstream from that point are less likely to have any contamination. They are receiving the same water through their gills as any fish in Utah Lake. I can personally vouch for the table qualities of those fish. Yum.[/#0000ff]
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