BF Thanksgiving trip 11/29 to 12/1

[Mountainman]

Lake Powell fishing can be tough this time of year; last weekend was no exception. The weather Friday was awful, and Saturday wasn’t much better. We located shad and stripers in most of the canyons we visited. Mostly found them suspended at 50 to 100 feet, in 150 feet of water. We drop in everything we had, but no takers. We never caught a single striper the entire trip. Sunday weather was much better. The lake was glass most of the day; the water temperature was around 56 degrees. We fished mostly for LM and SM with little success, only catching 30 or so. The best baits to use was a Ned rig with a 2.75” (yoga pants) TRD, and a 5“ Neko rig (black with blue flake) with a 1/16 ounce nail weight. The fish were definitely holding deeper 20 to 30 feet and mostly on rocky points. A few was caught in shallow water as well.

 

[treetop]

Thanks for the report, I check these boards 20 times a day, and get my fishing thrills vicariously through those of you who actually go.
And 30 fish, and a trip to Powell is still something to be thankful for!

 

[Brent R]

Thanks for the report. It looks like you had the lake to yourselves.

 

[Mountainman]

We did have it to ourselves. In fact, we didn’t see a single boat on Sunday and only three boats the entire weekend.