dank80
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My son and I headed down to Stateline on Tuesday evening. Launched in the dark and very slowly made our way over to have a quick sleep on top of the houseboat at Wahweap. With the low water, new obstructions, and the rearrangement of some of the docks at Wahweap it was a little tricky. But we got there safely with no problems.
After a few hours of shuteye, we had fishing on our brains. We had all our camping gear loaded up on the ski boat and headed 1.5 hours up lake and camped for a couple nights just past West Canyon. We saw maybe four or five boats all day on Wednesday. The water was glass and the air was hot for April 8th at 90 degrees. The water temp got up to as high as 69. In the mornings water temps seemed to cool down to around 61.
The fishing was pretty good. We fished West Canyon and Last Chance. Fished a lot also walking the shore line with a fly rod in the little cove we camped in. This is always a lot of fun, especially when the fish are shallow.
Largemouth were on beds and very plentiful. Smallmouth were actually a little harder to come by than usual and we caught very few decent smallies.
My buddy Joe and his dad joined us on Thursday which was great. Especially since that gave us another capable boat driver. Not getting towed on something behind the boat with this amazing weather had been killing me up to this point in time.
We continued fishing on Thursday with the four of us on the boat. Caught a bunch of stripers, a few crappies and walleye. Several nice sized bluegill were also reeled in. A little bit of everything.
It was a magical trifecta of amazing temperatures, glass water, and nobody else on the lake. Thursday afternoon was the perfect opportunity to get some water sports in. I can’t properly describe the beauty having the entirety of Last Chance to yourselves without a ripple on the water. Truly amazing.
Faceplant
Joe’s back roll
It was a great couple of days before heading back to the houseboat to get it ready for the season on Friday and Saturday.
Stateline launch ramp had probably around 30 feet of concrete left in the water. Probably around 6-8 feet deep currently at the end of the ramp. They’ve got the metal grates lined up at the top of the ramp ready to be dropped in place to buy some extra launching time.
Looking forward to another great season at Lake Powell!
After a few hours of shuteye, we had fishing on our brains. We had all our camping gear loaded up on the ski boat and headed 1.5 hours up lake and camped for a couple nights just past West Canyon. We saw maybe four or five boats all day on Wednesday. The water was glass and the air was hot for April 8th at 90 degrees. The water temp got up to as high as 69. In the mornings water temps seemed to cool down to around 61.
The fishing was pretty good. We fished West Canyon and Last Chance. Fished a lot also walking the shore line with a fly rod in the little cove we camped in. This is always a lot of fun, especially when the fish are shallow.
Largemouth were on beds and very plentiful. Smallmouth were actually a little harder to come by than usual and we caught very few decent smallies.
My buddy Joe and his dad joined us on Thursday which was great. Especially since that gave us another capable boat driver. Not getting towed on something behind the boat with this amazing weather had been killing me up to this point in time.
We continued fishing on Thursday with the four of us on the boat. Caught a bunch of stripers, a few crappies and walleye. Several nice sized bluegill were also reeled in. A little bit of everything.
It was a magical trifecta of amazing temperatures, glass water, and nobody else on the lake. Thursday afternoon was the perfect opportunity to get some water sports in. I can’t properly describe the beauty having the entirety of Last Chance to yourselves without a ripple on the water. Truly amazing.
FaceplantJoe’s back rollIt was a great couple of days before heading back to the houseboat to get it ready for the season on Friday and Saturday.
Stateline launch ramp had probably around 30 feet of concrete left in the water. Probably around 6-8 feet deep currently at the end of the ramp. They’ve got the metal grates lined up at the top of the ramp ready to be dropped in place to buy some extra launching time.
Looking forward to another great season at Lake Powell!
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