Crjmech
Member
I’ll take the blame for the poor fishing this year and here’s why:
I moved to the St George area about 5.5 years ago. I hadn’t done any fishing in Utah since I moved here. I’d often heard of the epic striper boils at lake Powell and watched YouTube videos and dreamed of the opportunity to fish it. Last year, a buddy of mine back in Colorado asked me if I wanted his boat. Told me, “if you want it, come get it”. I of course wasted no time in driving to Colorado Springs to pick up the little Tracker Pro v16. I spent most of last summer getting it running again and re-flooring and putting new carpet etc in it. We did do some fishing and had a good time in other lakes in southern Utah last fall but all the while, I had delusions of grandeur of striper fishing Lake Powell. This last spring, a neighbor asked if ever fished Powell and I told him no. He then told me how to fish anchovies and turned us on to a few good places to try. With that info, the wife and headed to Powell one nice, late April morning. After a short learning curve, we caught striper after striper and had a blast. This had me waking up at night in cold sweats dreaming of boils and not hardly being able to wait until September/October to get here! As you’re all aware of the prolific Shad hatch this year has dashed many of our dreams of bay wide boils this year. This is obviously an amazing thing for the fish, it doesn’t do much for the fisherman.
So, I’ll take the blame as the fishing gods have smitted me for this years fishing dreams. I’m sure the improved fish health will be seen for a few years to come and I’ll just have wait to see what happens next fall.
I moved to the St George area about 5.5 years ago. I hadn’t done any fishing in Utah since I moved here. I’d often heard of the epic striper boils at lake Powell and watched YouTube videos and dreamed of the opportunity to fish it. Last year, a buddy of mine back in Colorado asked me if I wanted his boat. Told me, “if you want it, come get it”. I of course wasted no time in driving to Colorado Springs to pick up the little Tracker Pro v16. I spent most of last summer getting it running again and re-flooring and putting new carpet etc in it. We did do some fishing and had a good time in other lakes in southern Utah last fall but all the while, I had delusions of grandeur of striper fishing Lake Powell. This last spring, a neighbor asked if ever fished Powell and I told him no. He then told me how to fish anchovies and turned us on to a few good places to try. With that info, the wife and headed to Powell one nice, late April morning. After a short learning curve, we caught striper after striper and had a blast. This had me waking up at night in cold sweats dreaming of boils and not hardly being able to wait until September/October to get here! As you’re all aware of the prolific Shad hatch this year has dashed many of our dreams of bay wide boils this year. This is obviously an amazing thing for the fish, it doesn’t do much for the fisherman.
So, I’ll take the blame as the fishing gods have smitted me for this years fishing dreams. I’m sure the improved fish health will be seen for a few years to come and I’ll just have wait to see what happens next fall.
.I too have been reading about the great striper boils for years and now I'm here I didn't see a one today in the back of Wahweap bay, but did catch 4 trolling yamamoto grubs in the back of the bay in the last 20 ft of water. Going out again tomorrow through Wednesday and even if they don't boil it's still the best place to fish that I have found and if I don't get into the boil then I have a good excuse to come back next year.
