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[shocked] For those of you who like to fish Lake Powell out of Hite, don't even try. I just drove over the bridge there on my way through there late Thursday and the lake actually starts about two miles downstream. All you see are massive mud flats and a bit of a river that you wouldn't recognize as the Colorado. North Canyon across from Hite appears to be it's own lake, cut off from the rest of the lake. All in all the whole scene is quite interesting in a twisted sort of way. Any real serious fishing in the Hite area will have to be done out of Halls or Bullfrog or by someone either totally crazy or innovative.
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Thanks for the info. My parents were planning a family vacation with those left in the nest still this summer. They probably planned on going to Hite. I'll make sure they head somewhere else.
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[unsure]I was there last summer in mid July. At that time the water and mud condition was basically the same as you have discribed now. However the marina had been moved farther down the shoreline (about a 1/4 - 1/2 mile) and was still able to be used.. Of course that was then.. Boy I hope to see a lot of water rolling into Powell this spring!
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It'd sure be nice if the money and interest were there to pull out a lot of that extra mud and silt while the water is low. I was reading a really intersting history of Lake Powell for one of my environmental classes a few years back and it said that Powell was primarily built as a silt catcher to protect Lake Mead. It's supposed to be filled up completely with silt by the time this century is through.
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