It definitely took my breath away! I spent a few hours on Saturday trying to catch crappie with no luck, wondering the whole time what you would be doing in my situation. We're bound to run in to each other one of these days!Looks like you had a great time, man that water is still to cold for me to get in, use to in my younger days.
Would have loved to meet you guys, but we headed South to San Juan and Escalante.
Have a good one
I was sure wishing I had a wetsuit! I wrecked pretty good once, and my arms were hurting pretty bad by the time I was done. Don't think a hard arm workout is a great idea with such cold muscles. Probably lucky I didn't sustain an injury!
We took 29 Crappie home from the San Juan and Escalante. But it was to muddy to get where I wanted to go. I was hoping you would get into them, but it looks like you caught a lot of fish and had a great time.
There is not much to Forgotten canyon this year. Maybe 200 yards up each of the 3 forks before you get tree'd out and too shallow. We hung a floating water bottle on the first tree's just above water line right at the mouth of the middle fork that goes back to the ruins. Figured with the water rising it would be needed. There are some really cool caves on the left just past the floating restrooms. Good luck
We hit that left fork of Forgotten on April 30th and May 1st. We easily caught 100 fish in there both days and it is a little cove back there. Kept a couple walleye and crappie and left all the smallies and largies for you. Did you see the lake past the tree's and over the sand hill? Huge lake trapped back in there. I couldn't believe how many tree's in the middle fork of Forgotten. You can not get very far at all from where it forks. Maybe 200 yards before it gets sketchy. Was my bottle still floating on the tree's just before going into the middle fork? We had an amazing trip with so many fish and great weather.
Your bottle was still there! I never went passed it. Wishing I would have now! Most of the fishing we did in Forgotten was in the right fork.
There is A dirt launch that everyone has been using, so I would say it's more of THE dirt launch. We launched a 19' Lund, and a heavy 23' Baja.
Glad the bottle was still there. If the water comes up another foot or two it will help someone not wreck a prop. There was not much going on in the middle fork. Muddy/murky water and it got shallow fast with lots of trees. Didn't catch much in there. We didn't spend much time in the right fork other than the tree's right at the beginning of it. Guess we missed out on that one. But there was seriously fish everywhere on rocky shorelines and underwater shoals.
