08-16-2018, 10:26 PM
[#0000ff]Well...almost a perfect 10. Weather was great...cooler and a bit cloudy compared to Salt Lake. Wind was light to nonexistent. Lots of 10 inch smallies...some larger and some smaller. Ditto for perch. And a 10 inch crappie to cap it off.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Rode up with Pa and met fellow tuber Dan Judd at the ramp. We were all on the water by 7. Powered out to deeper water to try to find the perch reported last week by Pikeman. Found some big clusters of fish that looked like Willard shad balls. But nothing that wanted to play.
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[#0000ff]Dan had reported some light hits in shallower water so I cruised into 10-12 feet. Found lots of fish the rest of the morning. Went through a box of crawlers feeding the dinks...and catching a few larger fish. I long ago established a benchmark of about 9" on perch for filletability. These were all healthy so I kept some 9s and 10s...and a precious couple of larger ones. Smallies were active in the same area and accepted the same jigs and fligs. A few pushed the footlong mark. And just before getting off the water about noon I scored a 10 inch crappie. Dan caught one about the same size earlier in the day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Pa headed up toward the dam and fished the shoreline out to deeper water up there. He too caught grundles of perchlets and smallettes...with a few keeping size.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Dan worked pretty much the same general area I did and caught all the usual suspects...in numbers. But about 10 am he tied on a diving crankbait and began working along a rocky rubble shoreline. It was nonstop smallie action with a few larger perch a well. I think he likes his new tube and I also think he likes Echo.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I think the last time I fished Echo was ice fishing, before I moved to Arizona in the early 1980s. Only caught a couple of hatchery pet bows and have never returned for all the new denizens in the ecology of Echo. Glad I finally got around to minding my ABCs...anything but catfish.
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[#0000ff]Rode up with Pa and met fellow tuber Dan Judd at the ramp. We were all on the water by 7. Powered out to deeper water to try to find the perch reported last week by Pikeman. Found some big clusters of fish that looked like Willard shad balls. But nothing that wanted to play.
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[#0000ff]Dan had reported some light hits in shallower water so I cruised into 10-12 feet. Found lots of fish the rest of the morning. Went through a box of crawlers feeding the dinks...and catching a few larger fish. I long ago established a benchmark of about 9" on perch for filletability. These were all healthy so I kept some 9s and 10s...and a precious couple of larger ones. Smallies were active in the same area and accepted the same jigs and fligs. A few pushed the footlong mark. And just before getting off the water about noon I scored a 10 inch crappie. Dan caught one about the same size earlier in the day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Pa headed up toward the dam and fished the shoreline out to deeper water up there. He too caught grundles of perchlets and smallettes...with a few keeping size.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Dan worked pretty much the same general area I did and caught all the usual suspects...in numbers. But about 10 am he tied on a diving crankbait and began working along a rocky rubble shoreline. It was nonstop smallie action with a few larger perch a well. I think he likes his new tube and I also think he likes Echo.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I think the last time I fished Echo was ice fishing, before I moved to Arizona in the early 1980s. Only caught a couple of hatchery pet bows and have never returned for all the new denizens in the ecology of Echo. Glad I finally got around to minding my ABCs...anything but catfish.
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