Littlesaltwash
Well-Known Member
I had a great Memorial Day trip camping and fishing with @Chovyboy and his family. We left with three boats out of Bullfrog about Thursday noon and headed south. Things got exciting pretty quick when NPS pulled over the lead boat in the new wakeless area. ( Signage at the ramp would have made NPS’s job easier ) We wanted to fish green water and ended up finding a really nice camp just as you enter the bay near Piute. There was a world of difference in water color in the bay where it exits and where the river enters up past Neskahi. I went up one day just to see what the “head” looked like and to see if fish were hanging in the chocolate water. Got to where it was wall to wall silt at 20’ and fairly devoid of fish on the screen. Only saw one San Juanaconda but it was a big one. We had boils right in camp twice around daylight. Stripers were hitting last years shad. We fished the upper bay, Cha, and the canyons between. We had to work for the crappie but had success on really light swim baits. Water was clear in the side canyons and down at Cha. We ended up catching some of everything on this trip. Dinners were great and we ate really well. A shrimp boil, jambalaya, grilled pork, hamburgers, and a big fish fry the last night. Chovy’s two boys were a kick. They are good campers and were very helpful in all camp chores. They were just like a couple of otters playing in the mud and water. We stopped at Hole in the Rock heading home Tuesday. It would be interesting to hike up the cut. There were a couple of places where we had phone service on this trip and I was able to check in every night. Will go again, company was great .
