Lake Powell Help

[300win]

I'm heading to lake Powell this week with a group of kids. Some of the young men would like to try fishing. I am taking my boat and would like to fish for stripers. Anyone willing to share some tips. I have never fish Powell so this is a learning game. Would anchovies be best or should I be looking for boils? Thanks
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[bassrods]

First are you going to Bullfrog?
If not were, if by the dam Anchovies or chub meat will work..
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[Kent]

You should visit Wayneswords.com.
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[300win]

We are going to bullfrog and then heading to camp in knowles canyon
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[bassrods]

That can be a good fishing, look for boils in early morning and late evening..
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[PBH]

300Win: slurps are happening all over right now. Watch the area right around the Bullfrog ramp when you launch the boat. Watch for surface activity -- any disturbance in the surface of the water. Schools of stripers are cruising sub-surface and feeding on small shad, which sit right at the surface.

make sure your boys have rods rigged up and ready with something they can cast well: kastmaster, zara spook or other "popper", heavy jigs, stick baits, etc.

When you see these schools, cruise up along side and have the kids starting casting in front of the school. They move fast, and you've got to cast in front of them. Then just crank fast and hang on!

I'll see if I can upload a video showing a slurp so you can see what to look for. They can be found all day long, as long as the wind isn't blowing.
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[craigers]

Was down there a week and a half ago, we got into them pretty good in boils and caught a few on anchovies as well. We were up Hansen Creek, just a few miles closer and across the channel. We were consistently finding boils in there morning and night. Moqui was also good, no surprise there. I don't think it matters much what you throw into the boils. I did catch a few off the surface trolling around while dad was messing around with the houseboat. Caught them on the surface with a Zara Puppy in the Flitter Shad variety. Those of course also worked well in the boils too, better than other topwater stuff my brother-in-law tried to throw.

Knowles has some great looking submerged trees we fished some without any success. I would bet on the young men catching some stripers off anchovies tossing them in from into the main finger from shore.
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[300win]

Thanks for the information
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[300win]

Thanks for all the tips. I will post pics in a week
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[craigers]

Please do!
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[jekern1015]

Wait till dark and put a light in the water at the docks by houseboat rentals. You need a hook and a piece of anchovie and you will catch stripers all night long. Let bait fall without any other weight
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[PBH]

not the best video, but it does show a "slurp" at Bullfrog. This is what you should be looking for:

http://s84.photobucket.com/user/PowerBai...s.mp4.html
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[fishinfool]

Spent last week 7/3-7/7 on Powell with the girlfriend and her family.

Location was Halls Creek Bay towards the back, with some sight seeing all the way down to ice berg and all the way up to forgotten canyon.

There were slurps just about every where we traveled and a few I might call a boil when there were enough stripers in the school attacking the shad on the surface.

We caught fish on spooks and pop-r's with most attention and hook ups on the pop-r's. I tried some of the tried and true lipless cranks I would cast to wiper boils at Willard, with very little love from the stripers. Also caught some on blue and silver castmasters after the slurp went down.

With very limited time to fish me and the girlfriend just hit the slurps each day for about 2-3 hrs while people slept or took a break from water sports. we caught well over thirty fish each time we fished. We figured out a pattern on the fish and it worked like a charm. We would not rip into a slurp but see the fish and very slowly idle close enough and catch fish until they went down but would notice which direction they where last feeding in 90% of the time we would idle right into them again heading in that direction and catch more fish watching there direction and just kept doing this over and over.

It was an awesome trip and had been far to long since I visited powell. She didn't disappoint.

Short Video of the fun:
https://goo.gl/photos/H8u8iv1tPRMZCC1h8

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[PBH]

nice video -- much better than what I posted. That's exactly what people should be watching for!
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[fishinfool]

Thanks PBH, it was really good footage of how they act and what you should be looking for, there was four or five more slurps around us but this had the most fish in it and we caught a bunch following it around.

I made three videos of her hitting the slurps like that and every time the fish would not grab the bait. I would turn it off and FISH ON! LOL! I just had to get in on the action so I put the phone down.

Hope this helps you 300 we ran into so many slurps everywhere we went that I don't know how you couldn't catch some fish. Was way to easy.

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