Need advice on Pineview and Jordanelle

[Kent]

Fishing tomorrow but trying to decide where (have to be home by 3:00 so trying something closer). At what depth does one target bass this time of year at Pineview and Jordanelle? Also, which one (in your opinion) is likely to have better action this time of year for bass?
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[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]More and bigger bass in Pineview. And they will hit spoons and plastics jigged in the same depths you find the crappies and perch. Sometimes shallower. But I have caught them right on the bottom in over 50 feet. And there are some nice ones caught through the ice at depths during the winter.

Can't begin to offer advice on where to find bass in Jordanelle during the cold months. Even when they were bigger and more plentiful they seemed to disappear when it got cold.
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[doggonefishin]

For me, Jordanelle is pretty tough this time of year for bass, but if your heart was set on it, I would fish off deep points and around the dam with a dropshot on the bottom.

Keep in mind that fish caught from great depths will have difficulty being released and would likely either need to be harvested or "fizzed" in order to return to where they were at.
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[Kent]

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More and bigger bass in Pineview.

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They must be thick in Pineview because I found lots of them in Jordanelle during the summer months.

When I was up there with Rocky, on Tuesday, I tried casting a drop shot rig up close to the shore and bouncing it back to the boat. I think I had something larger than a perch hooked once for a split second. I thought it might be a bass, but not sure. I was hoping to catch a bass or two.
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[Kent]

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Keep in mind that fish caught from great depths will have difficulty being released and would likely either need to be harvested or "fizzed" in order to return to where they were at.

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I have two "Laker Saver" type tools that I have available to return the fish to the deep. Tuesday, at Pineview, I used the smaller one to return several perch back to the bottom in 57' of water.
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[GoodGravy]

I pulled up one small smallmouth from 50ish feet at Pineview last Sunday. Right out of a pile of crappie and small perch. Brought it up slow, and it seemed to swim off quite well without descending. It was a surprise to be sure. I was fishing all white crappie tubes with a little perch meat, 1/16th oz. head
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[TubeDude]

"They must be thick in Pineview because I found lots of them in Jordanelle during the summer months."

[#0000FF]C'mon Kent. You are trying to compare two different fish populations in two different lakes...at different times of the year.

If you will admit it, you only found a few bass in a select few spots at Jordanelle. They are not as widely spread as in Pineview...ever. And this time of year they pretty much lay on the bottom of very deep water and do not show up on anglers' lines again until late spring.
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[Kent]

[quote GoodGravy]

I was fishing all white crappie tubes with a little perch meat, 1/16th oz. head

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Were the crappie biting the perch meat?
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[Kent]

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If you will admit it, you only found a few bass in a select few spots at Jordanelle.

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I will admit that I don't target bass very often, but I targeted them a couple times this year with a fellow BFT member who targets them frequently. Not sure the definition of "a few bass" but I am confident that I landed around 35 to 40 (and my fishing partner landed even more), and we both missed lots of bites, in about 4 - 5 hours of fishing. Also, because we were catching plenty of bass in one area we felt no need to explore other areas.

With all of that said, I have no idea which body of water has the most and larger ones. I just hope that we can find some tomorrow at Pineview.
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[GoodGravy]

Some were, I had just a small strip of what amounted to mostly skin, and I'm not positive what all bit unless it came all the way up. I was also tipping with gulp maggots, and my fishing friend was using the berkley gulp earthworms. We all had about equal success for the crappie and perch in those setups, though none of us had super hot fishing. I think we went home with 12 small to medium crappie between 2 adults and 2 kids and a handful of perch that were released.
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[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]Combining current reports with my experience from past years I am guessing that a lot of the fish are moving up into areas inside the red buoy line. There are a couple of humps in there that rise above a deeper bottom and they are magnets for all species during cold water times. Sadly, because of our terrorist friends, we are no longer allowed to fish some of the best spots closer to the dam.

That being said, the water is still warm enough that you could possibly find a few smallies in shallower water along the rocky banks...with a southern exposure (warmer). Bouncing plastics downslope...from 20 feet to as much as 50 feet...just might connect you to a few.

Good luck.
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[Kent]

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Sadly, because of our terrorist friends, we are no longer allowed to fish some of the best spots closer to the dam.

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Placing that barrier of buoys there is a waste of time and money. Did it ever occur to the government officials who placed it there that any terrorist would just plant the explosives by driving across the dam? No need for a boat when one can just drive across the dam. Also, I bet a good bolt cutter would make quick work of that buoy line if one wanted to access the dam by boat.
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[bassrods]

I have yet seen a small mouth that has to be fizzed ..
And I have pulled them from 90+feet..
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[TubeDude]

[#0000FF]Yer preachin' ta the choir, ol' buddy. I have presented those same arguments to folks in positions of authority. Same ol' same ol'. No good reason or explanation...just policy. If any terrorist group wanted to spill Pineview it would not take a Mission Impossible plot to do so...buoy barrier or not.

Just like many of the other formerly great fishing spots in Utah, that area is no longer available to law-abiding anglers just because of the actions (or potential actions) of non-angling bad guys.
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