Lake Powell (Bullfrog) report: 4-19 thru 4-22

[N.E.T.O.]

Hey all,
Just back from Powell.
We camped every night in Halls Creek canyon, and never had one drop of rain, although we did have clouds and some wind every now and then. Most of the time it was t-shirt weather. Nights got down into the 40's especially when clear, and was glad we had the conestoga top for the boat!
We had 2 boats with 8 fisherman total (2 of which didn't arrive till Friday) and we caught 277 fish total! My son in law caught the most at 54 fish for the trip and I came in 2nd at 48 fish.
Most were Stripers and most of the stripers were in the 15 to 17 inch range, but we did manage to catch a few toads. We also caught a lot of Crappie (all BIG!), a few Smallmouths, a Largemouth, a 22" Walleye, a few Carp, some Catfish and a Bluegill.
We caught fish trolling in Bullfrog bay and in Halls Creek bay using Walley lures, but caught most of our Stripers at Moki Canyon and the entrance to Lake Canyon using the famous Mister Twister single tail grubs with a piece of anchovey on a 1/4 ounce jighead.
Water temp not quite 60 yet and the bass hadn't started spawning yet. According to Wayne, it looks like another week before that happens now!
Boat ran well, truck ran very well, everything was good!
Tried to find some other BFT'ers, but couldn't pick anyone up on the radio and didn't recognize any boats or faces.

Here are a few pics.

Randy
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[flyanddrive]

Looks like a nice variety of fish there Randy. A buddy and I were actually camping Saturday night up on Blue Notch canyon which is around past Hite a few miles. We fished Saturday afternoon/evening and Sunday morning until the wind blew our tubes off the water. Like you said no rain but plenty of wind! We did pretty well for the stripers and we each caught 1 lmb but that was it. Still a good time!
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