05-09-2006, 08:22 PM
Fished Waheap area Friday thru Sunday in morning and evening trips. Striper fishing was very good by the dam and also good in nearby canyons. Anchovies with no sinker. Fish up to 30" and up to 8 lbs. I read reports of skinny stripers, but we sure didn't find them - a few 16 to 18 inch fish, but average was 20-24". At the fish cleaning station some anglers had ropes full of stripers too heavy for two men to carry, (probably 40 fish) they were dragging them on the ground. We caught fewer fish (eight to ten per 1/2 day of fishing) but they seemed larger sized. Also fished short brushy side canyons and caught smallies, largemouth and found larger schools of sunfish. Bass would take 1/8 oz green flake curly tail and crawfish brown spider jigs. If you get a chance to fish Powell in the next few weeks - take it.
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