Hoping to repeat our success from our last trip we set out early Sunday morning and headed up to good hope. Got to the bay at noon, and we saw a huge boil. Seeing that boil lit a fire under our butts and we set up camp as fast as we could. We left from camp pumped thinking that we were going to be beating up boils all afternoon. We were wrong
. We spent the rest of Sunday trolling around the bay looking for boils and only saw three or so quick boils. It was a little windy so that probably didn’t help us locate boils. We ended the night with a dozen or so we trolled up. Had a great dinner, and made plans to go check red and canyon and beyond the following morning.
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Bear stir fry.
I eat better at the lake than I do at home.
We woke to a beautiful sunrise and set out for the far reaches of the north.
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Saw no boils on the way up lake. We stopped and trolled red canyon, blue notch, and the horn. Saw coyote in the back of red.
View attachment 29284We trolled from the horn all the way to two mile. We had some success trolling, but we wanted more so we pushed further up to white canyon.
View attachment 29285 We trolled all the way to the end of white and didn’t see a single boil. We did however find tons of striper trolling in white. Several times we had all four of our lines going off at once. Problem was that these stripers that were very skinny. Not wanting to waste anymore time with skinny fish we head back down lake to camp looking for boils. We saw no boils until we made to the GHB floating bathroom and caught few there. We decided to head further south hoping to get more action. No luck all way down to smith fork. We cleaned fish in the shade of tapestry wall and headed back to camp.
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While I was watching my dad make dinner I saw the clouds building, and I couldn’t get the generator to start. We had a great dinner and pretty warm night. At 3:30am the rain started and it kept going until 9:00 am. With the broke down generator and a soggy camp we were debating leaving, but decided to man up and stick it out. We headed up to red canyon after the rain to try jigging up some striper using some cut up bits of striper we saved from the day before. A chovyboy with no chovy is a sad day. Found a school in the back of red in 17ft of water and started jigging. Had three stripper in the boat in the first 5 minutes, and then boils erupted everywhere in red canyon. We chased them until about 2:30 and caught a bunch of big healthy fat fish. We set out to clean fish with a plan to return to red later that evening to hunt for boils or jig some more, but the weather messed up that plan. It rained from 4:00pm to 7:00pm. Luckily it stopped so we could fry fish, and the rain cooled it down so we could get a good nights rest.
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I wish I had taken more pictures, but all in all it was a good trip. Tight lines worldlings!
