Need help! San Juan Planning

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I travel from Wahweap to the Great Bend portion of the San Juan in a 65 foot houseboat powered by twin 305 V-8's every year . We are on the water around 7 to 7:30 in the morning, and arrive at Great Bend at 3:30 to 4:00 cruising at about 7 to 8 knots. I can travel round trip using about 250 gallons of fuel. I hope this helps.
 
Ejespady35 said:
Ryan, I just wanted to clarify this was from Bull Frog and is the 12 hours one way or is it both ways?
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That trip was a long time ago (2000 I think). Yes from Bullfrog, to Cha canyon. One way. I believe those old rentals had something like 60 HP engines, and we tried to run them economically.
 
Perston we past you on Friday. You were in the cove just up river from Cha. Great to see you made it to the San Juan. The best little fisherman was on the front of your boat. Fishing was slow tell Wednesday and then Thursday it picked up. no 100 fish days. The best was just under 100 on Thursday. Hope you are tearing the up and enjoying the San Juan. Sorry we didn't stop to say give you a report. we were trying to make it to the gas docks before they closed at 5pm.
 
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Thank you so much for everyone's input! We had a great trip to the San Juan 5-8th, the scenery was incredible, we made it the great bend, saw a Burro and caught well over 500 fish all with ten gallons of gas to spare! Most of our fish were on simple soft plastics, chartreuse and Shad single tail grub were the most prominent this time. Nixon was doing really well on a candy color strike king 3" tube. 80% were smallies, but we did catch quite a few stripers, a few including my personal best were in really good shape and gave great fillets. We even hooked into 8-10 walleye all of which were good size. The wind ended up being fierce in some spurts but manageable and not bad overall. I was drooling over all the brush that will become covered in the coming months. The very backs of canyons always seemed to hold a wide variety of fish. We ran into waterman and RonB's crew who were stoked to say hi to Nixon. Thank you for letting us in on the San Juan, a truly spectacular area, it made us miss Good Hope just a bit less. We will be back!

Preston
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Dungee Fishing said:
Thank you so much for everyone's input! We had a great trip to the San Juan 5-8th, the scenery was incredible, we made it the great bend, saw a Burro and caught well over 500 fish all with ten gallons of gas to spare! Most of our fish were on simple soft plastics, chartreuse and Shad single tail grub were the most prominent this time. Nixon was doing really well on a candy color strike king 3" tube. 80% were smallies, but we did catch quite a few stripers, a few including my personal best were in really good shape and gave great fillets. We even hooked into 8-10 walleye all of which were good size. The wind ended up being fierce in some spurts but manageable and not bad overall. I was drooling over all the brush that will become covered in the coming months. The very backs of canyons always seemed to hold a wide variety of fish. We ran into waterman and RonB's crew who were stoked to say hi to Nixon. Thank you for letting us in on the San Juan, a truly spectacular area, it made us miss Good Hope just a bit less. We will be back!

Preston
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Sounds like a great trip minus the wind, but hey its that time of year, so how much fuel did you wind up using down and back?
 
Reeltor said:
Sounds like a great trip minus the wind, but hey its that time of year, so how much fuel did you wind up using down and back?
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We have a 115hp four stroke merc. Brought about 67 gallons with us (including internal tank of 27), gage was pinned on empty when we pulled up to bullfrog but we had two five gallon tanks still full.
 
KYKevin said:
How was the water clarity at Neskahi, and how much stuff was floating?
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Water wasn't significantly stained till it started narrowing just before the great bend, the more critical part was the debris that lined 5-10 feet away from the shoreline, sometimes your lure wouldn't even punch through it. Would've loved to fish it more because the clarity was very milky and good but not muddy. Water clarity and debris was a non issue throughout the rest of the bay.
 
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Dungee Fishing said:
We have a 115hp four stroke merc. Brought about 67 gallons with us (including internal tank of 27), gage was pinned on empty when we pulled up to bullfrog but we had two five gallon tanks still full.
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That's good to know, I have a 19 1/2 ' blue finn, that has a 4.3 v6 , it only has a 23 gallon tank but is pretty kind on fuel, I can go to castle butte and back to bullfrog on a tank, but always take 20 gal, for trolling and running around, so I would think if I were to take 40 extra plus my 23 in the tank I would be fine? also quick question Preston, when do you feel good hope starts getting good again after the run off, when do you guys usually feel comfortable planning trips back up that way? thanks for any input:)
 
Reeltor said:
Preston, when do you feel good hope starts getting good again after the run off, when do you guys usually feel comfortable planning trips back up that way? thanks for any input:)
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Last year we went back mid July, the water was muddy down to Farley after putting in at Hite but clear after that for boil fishing, plan on doing the same this year.
 
do you happen to know how many miles total you went, and how many gallons consumed?
 
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