Utah Lake AFBH & State Park

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[#400080]My oldest son and I did get down to UL this past weekend. Left Ogden area about 0730, and got to AF with good time. Just to realize I had forgot the worms [:/]. OK, make sure the boat is all secure, head back into town. Got the worms and back to the AF marina. Boat in the water....as warned it was a bit shallow 2-2.5'. But if careful, stay in the middle (what middle there still is) made it out to the main body of lake. Wanted to try dragging for some Walleye like I did in June, but we must have gone 1/2 to 3/4 mile and the depth just stayed at 2-2.5'. Then the wind came up, not bad enough to head for sheltered water, but too strong to try and troll and watch broadside waves at same time.[mad] [/#400080]
[#400080]So, we did quick 180 and angled to the south east to where I figured the Bubble Up was, and again, we were running out of depth way before we got close to it. Deciding to wait for some day with more water (? whenever that may be) we made a sharp left and headed for the AF River inlet area. At some point between the AF BH and the River, we were seeing some likely activity on the sonar, the water temp was about 80 and close to 3' deep. We picked a pretty arbitrary spot, dropped the hook, and got some worms out for their Friday bath. [fishin] [/#400080]

[#400080]Didn't have to wait too long before son hooked up a respectable kitty and broke his skunk. [/#400080]
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[#400080]We weren't set up to keep anything as we were staying in a hotel in Lehi. But we could have had some great Cat fillets by the end of Friday.[/#400080]
[#400080]I hooked up one like it and now we both settled down now that we had chased out the skunk.[/#400080]

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Now we didn't get into anything close to BLK and his Posse contest size, but I couldn't have posted them for the contest anyway. Just had a fair day, with calming and warming weather and several fish boated and all released. Even the White Bass got a reprieve.

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There was one fish we didn't boat. But counted it as a catch cuz I was able to get a photo and reach down and twist the hook out. The only Carp for the weekend.

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Now I know 22" isn't much to some, but it's one of the biggest I've boated this year. No, not a contest post.

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Then the son (Wing Man) got what looked like his twin

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And he boated up the last one for the day. Needed to get back to Lehi to get checked in.

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Friday was good in all respects of, good company, good weather, no skunks, and I didn't get the Tin-Can stuck in the bottom mud anywhere. [sly]

Saturday was just a slightly different story, but will have to post it in part 2, cause I got a dinner to go to. Later ya'll

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[albinotrout]

Love the report. Glad you got into the kitties.
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[Therapist]

Fun isn't it ??? You have to get out into the midlake area to find some depth now. I need to get out and try drifting some crawlers in the midlake area to see if the fish out out just swimming around !!!

[SkunkedAgain]

Nice report Forest it sounds like a great day!!! Hey if that would have been a contest post I couldn't read the scale so make sure you check your picture before you let your big ones go up north. I want to give you full credit but the southerners might think I was biased if we can't all read the numbers. Glad you guys had a great trip. Later J
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[Tin-Can]

Jeff, Yea, I know those numbers are getting hard to read. Since it wasn't for the contest I wasn't worried about it. But on the way home Sunday we stopped at Sheels just because we had not been in there and I found a new 36" measure that I can put on a new board I'm building. It is vinyl, self adhesive, bright yellow with bigger numbers. Building a new boxed in bump board that will hopefully keep the kitties from flopping off the board long enough to get a good pic.
Have plans to make one more weekend trip down to UL on the 28th. But will have to launch from State Park, and even it may be too low by then. More on that in Part 2 tonight. [laugh]
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[SkunkedAgain]

Look forward to part 2.... No biggie on the ruler, just need to watch the glare so the numbers show.... Hope you get a chance to go have some more fun...It's starting to get to my favorite time of year... Don't know if that's because the farm work slows down a bit or the fishing gets better, but I sure have enjoyed the last two falls more than all the rest of the year... Hope it's good this year... later J
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