11-23-2005, 10:02 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Had some time. Hadda get outta da house. Hadda take the wife (TubeBabe). Went to Lincoln Beach. Shoulda stood in bed.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Item 1...restroom facilities are closed for the season. No portapotty. Use your survival training.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Item 2...there is ice in the protected water inside the reeds around the south side of the lake. Figured the water temp must be under 40. Sonar confirmed. 37 degrees inside the boat channel, 39 in the main lake at 7:30 AM. Air temp 24 degrees. The skim ice was still there about noon when we got off the water. Maybe Utah Lake will get a hard deck this year.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Item 3...no major fishing action. Saw quite a few small fish cruising at middepth (in 8 foot depth), and a few a bit larger off the bottom. No large fish on sonar at all. And, this was the first trip I ever made to Lincoln Beach that I did not see or hook even one carp. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Also, no other anglers...boat, tube, toon or bank. Had a few "lookylous" drive along the road and stop to watch us, but no other folks hit the water. There was a guy going out in a tin boat and an electric motor as we came in.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We threw almost every kind of plastic, spinner and jig in our arsenal, with virtually no action at all. We tipped with worm and minnow, but that didn't help. Tried dragging and floating worms and minnows. Zipppppp.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I did get a few light taps on small chartreuse glider jigs. One of those turned into a small white bass. That was all that kept skunkdom at bay. TubeBabe brought in only her skunk.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Item 4...the water is coming up in Utah Lake again. I estimate that the level is up about a foot or so since my last trip, a month ago. That makes it about 3 or 4 feet higher than it was at this time last year, and only about two feet from the high water mark of last spring.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Steam was rising from the first spring area, and I hoped maybe there was some warmer water coming in and that maybe there would be some fish congregated...as they have been in the past. NOPE. The water around the springs was the same temp as the open lake...39.5 degrees. I did meter some small schools of fish sitting inside the bowl of the first spring though. I suspect either small white bass, crappies or bluegills. I did not work them very aggressively.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I don't know, if there is a bite down there it must be a late afternoon or evening bite, after the water picks up a couple of degrees. It made it up to about 41 by the time we left.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I think we may have "put Utah Lake to bed" for this year. I doubt I will get too interested in it again until about March. Then we will see if there are any fish left. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I know there are crappies and some white bass moving into the harbors and protected areas now. Those who know the good spots, and how to fish them, can count on harvesting a few until the ice caps the water. Then, it can get really good under the ice in those "inside" areas.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Item 1...restroom facilities are closed for the season. No portapotty. Use your survival training.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Item 2...there is ice in the protected water inside the reeds around the south side of the lake. Figured the water temp must be under 40. Sonar confirmed. 37 degrees inside the boat channel, 39 in the main lake at 7:30 AM. Air temp 24 degrees. The skim ice was still there about noon when we got off the water. Maybe Utah Lake will get a hard deck this year.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Item 3...no major fishing action. Saw quite a few small fish cruising at middepth (in 8 foot depth), and a few a bit larger off the bottom. No large fish on sonar at all. And, this was the first trip I ever made to Lincoln Beach that I did not see or hook even one carp. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Also, no other anglers...boat, tube, toon or bank. Had a few "lookylous" drive along the road and stop to watch us, but no other folks hit the water. There was a guy going out in a tin boat and an electric motor as we came in.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We threw almost every kind of plastic, spinner and jig in our arsenal, with virtually no action at all. We tipped with worm and minnow, but that didn't help. Tried dragging and floating worms and minnows. Zipppppp.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I did get a few light taps on small chartreuse glider jigs. One of those turned into a small white bass. That was all that kept skunkdom at bay. TubeBabe brought in only her skunk.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Item 4...the water is coming up in Utah Lake again. I estimate that the level is up about a foot or so since my last trip, a month ago. That makes it about 3 or 4 feet higher than it was at this time last year, and only about two feet from the high water mark of last spring.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Steam was rising from the first spring area, and I hoped maybe there was some warmer water coming in and that maybe there would be some fish congregated...as they have been in the past. NOPE. The water around the springs was the same temp as the open lake...39.5 degrees. I did meter some small schools of fish sitting inside the bowl of the first spring though. I suspect either small white bass, crappies or bluegills. I did not work them very aggressively.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I don't know, if there is a bite down there it must be a late afternoon or evening bite, after the water picks up a couple of degrees. It made it up to about 41 by the time we left.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I think we may have "put Utah Lake to bed" for this year. I doubt I will get too interested in it again until about March. Then we will see if there are any fish left. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I know there are crappies and some white bass moving into the harbors and protected areas now. Those who know the good spots, and how to fish them, can count on harvesting a few until the ice caps the water. Then, it can get really good under the ice in those "inside" areas.[/#0000ff]
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