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After reading about the flotilla Friday I google mapped bird island and have a question. If you draw a line straight from Lincoln beach to bird island and zoom in on the line. ( I screen shoted it) it looks like a trench going from Lincoln beach to Bird Island.
If it is a trench on the bottom how is it for stacking up the White Bass. Do they like to hang in trenches?
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Sounds like a question for the master........
(AKA TubeDude)
I've never ran into anyone that has as much knowledge as this angler, of course he has 50+ years experience on this body of water. He definitely knows his stuff.
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If I had to guess I would say that it is a silt trail from where a boat has churned up the water.
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[#0000FF]Two things.
First, I have never, ever, ever (sorry, Tay Tay) known Utah Lake to be clear enough to show any kind of bottom formation through several feet of water.
Second, virtually hundreds of sonarizing trips over that area have never revealed any kind of depression in the bottom deeper than the surrounding lake. And if one magically appeared it would silt in quickly.
There are some deep (over 20 feet) depressions just to the west of Bird Island...left over from former volcanic springs in the bedrock. And they periodically get scoured out by fierce blows from the southwest. But they soon fill back in with silt. Right now the whole lake on the south end is a maximum of about 6 feet...with minor humps and dips here and there.
The area around Lincoln Point offers some of the greatest variations in bottom structure and contour of anywhere else on the lake. Bird Island is second. There are some small rock piles scattered around the lake and some longtimers have them GPSed for their own use. Asking someone to reveal their secret "honey humps" is akin to asking to borrow their wife. Well, some might go along with that. Utah is a weird place.
About white bass specifically. The only reason they hang in one place longer than it takes to come and go is either for food or comfort. If their groceries stay there...so will the white bass. Or, if there is a warm inflow of water in cold weather...or a cooler inflow during hot weather...the white bass will school up to enjoy the temperature variables.
In short, they will not school up in a trench or over a rock pile just because of the bottom variation. They are always on the move...to find food or better water conditions...or both.
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