Lake Powell Trip Report

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[size 1]I just got back from a 3.5 day trip to Lake Powell. I stayed in the Bullfrog area. I for one was not impressed with the fishing this year (by Lake Powell standards). It was the poorest fishing I have seen in five consecutive years visiting Lake Powell in the month of May. Not just quantity, but size. We fished HARD for the striped bass and did manage to catch them, but have never had to work so hard for them. The people that we talked with (at the Halls and Bullfrog marinas, the gas stations in the area, the fish cleaning station, and the fuel dock) had not heard of anyone doing well for stripers this year. We were unable to find any fish in schools large enough and/or concentrated enough to jig or anchovy fish for. We had sucess trolling using a GPS to mark and track the schools as they moved. We fished from Knowles Canyon to Halls Canyon. We only caught stripers in Bullfrog Bay and the back of Halls. The stripers in Bullfrog only averaged about 10 to 14 inches with a few larger ones. The ones in Halls were bigger, but we had to troll through a forest of submerged trees to get at them. It was a good way to 'use up' some of my older lures. The weather and the camping was great. Don't get me wrong, I was just a little dissappointed after all the hype about how great the fishing was going to be this year. It really was the worst fishing I have seen in the last five years. That said, here are trip results:

101 fish total, 10 Walleyes, 4 Catfish, 4 Smallmouths, the remainder Stripers. 33 fish on Sunday evening and Monday, 41 on Tuesday, and 27 on Wednesday.

The fish pictures posted are of my best fishing buddy, fish picture model, and wife. [/size]
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