Flaming Gorge On Soft Water - finally

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I couldn't wait any longer. Myself and Dagnabit hit the Mustang/Cedar Springs area at Flaming Gorge after a quick call to someone in Dutch John on confirm we had open water to get the boat on and a good ramp. We fished a good part of the day Thursday and again on Friday morning. The weather on Thursday presented some challenges at times, as it would go from calm to 40 mph wind in about 5 minutes, Friday was great. Fortunately there was a lot more fishable time than wind. We ended up boating 13 mack, most in the low teens class, though we did get a couple (as pictured) a little bigger, 17 and 20 lbs. We slooowww trolled big pop gear trailing a minnow right on bottom on our favorite runs. After three months of tinkering with the boat and plotting our strategies it was great to be back on the water with a mack pulling on the line. Water temp was 37.3, the ice is right at the mouth of the narrows and looked very rotten. We talked to a couple guys in a another boat who had not got any mack whilst jigging, but had tried for rainbows shallow and caught a few.
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