Gunsight/Castle Rock Cut fish report Sept 14-20

[Jamman J]

Just finished up the week house-boating and fishing in the southern lake. We stayed in Gunsight Canyon.

Lucky for us we found stripers boiling most mornings at flat islands/shortcut to padre bay.

They were up for 20-30 min around 8am topwaters and rattle traps worked great,

and then after tbe boils, we would find them deep. For Striper Schools 50 ft seemed to be the magic depth. We did find some boils and deep schools right in middle of gunsight as well.

Another school that we fished and did quite well was found on north east side of castle rock cut in 50-60 ft of water. These fish were all nice fat adults. It seemed to bite best when we marked shad balls as opposed to striper boils.

Fle Fly in white was the hot spoon. For surface action ZaraSpooks and we also caught several in white RedRum tube baits.

All in all another awesome trip to Powell.

 

[jimmybame]

I think we saw you the morning of the 17th we were in a sailboat on our way back from oak we usually fish gunsight great report

 

[Jamman J]

Very cool...

I saw you guys troll by on a sailboat, thats a first for me at Lake Powell im sure the windpower came in handy this last week.

How was the fishing up in Oak area?

 

[jimmybame]

Very cool...

I saw you guys troll by on a sailboat, thats a first for me at Lake Powell im sure the windpower came in handy this last week.

How was the fishing up in Oak area?

It was great no boils in oak but was able to spoon them up almost every time found boils on way back around friendship and rock creek was a great trip I like your boat setup

 

[Jamman J]

Thanks; i upgraded from a 18 ft to a 24ft i usually fish the ocean off San Diego.

For most lakes 24cc too big, but i loved the big boat when it got sloppy this trip, no soaking passengers especially on run up to Rainbow Bridge with 8 guys on boat in a stiff wind.

Magical Lake Powell always comes through with its stunning beauty; this year no different in fact maybe even more stunning than i remember it...

 

[PapaWhit]

Just finished up the week house-boating and fishing in the southern lake. We stayed in Gunsight Canyon.

Lucky for us we found stripers boiling most mornings at flat islands/shortcut to padre bay.

They were up for 20-30 min around 8am topwaters and rattle traps worked great,

and then after tbe boils, we would find them deep. For Striper Schools 50 ft seemed to be the magic depth. We did find some boils and deep schools right in middle of gunsight as well.

Another school that we fished and did quite well was found on north east side of castle rock cut in 50-60 ft of water. These fish were all nice fat adults. It seemed to bite best when we marked shad balls as opposed to striper boils.

Fle Fly in white was the hot spoon. For surface action ZaraSpooks and we also caught several in white RedRum tube baits.

All in all another awesome trip to Powell.

Thanks for the report. Those are some really healthy looking stripers. Looks like the South is where it is at right now. THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN!

 

[fastarget]

for sure the south side of the lake is behaving differently than the North.....its ok , will wait our turn, it should be fun.