08-11-2011, 11:19 PM
Met at Pineview for the BFT gathering at 8am. Since my toon is still down I bailed to Causey.
Causey- Got to Causey around 8:30am. Waded out past the spillway to the 1st rocky point. Saw a 5 inch crawdad while walking out there. I never knew that reservoir had them in there. Started out by throwing a Gold Blue Fox spinner size 2 tipped with a nightcrawler. Had a few tigers pursue it and then a rainbow took it...then as I was reeling him in he bumped his head on the rock ledge and got free. Saw a massive tiger trout cruzing the shoreline. I switched to a black bomber rapalla and he followed it and then swam off the other way. Not liking the scene I switched to the upper ogden river below the dam. Same story...no fish. Went back to Causey and tried the other side of the dam. While fishing a man came up to me and said that he needed some hooks cause he left his tackle box at home. Thinking good karma would come my way I gave him 6 hooks and to my dismay my spinner got jammed on the bottom and I lost it! I lost faith in my karma theory and bailed to Pineview (where karma paid me back) to fish for an hour before picking up TyeDyeTwin who was tooning with MarineSpear.
Pineview- Got to the parking lot where all the BFT's met up earlier in the day. Threw out a Gold Blue Fox size 3 spinner tipped with a nightcrawler. On the 1st cast a watched as a submarine ambushed my spinner and bam...hooked up with my 1st ever Tiger Muskie. Got him up on shore, measured him (25 inches), took a pic and let him swim off. After just a couple of casts I moved 100 feet down the beach. After 7 casts I felt a huge snag. I pulled and thought, "ok I'll pull in this bush". Then the line went left, right and left again. I started reeling in fast and thats when the monster Tiger Muskie breached and my line shot off into the lake. In a few minutes I got the beast on shore. My pack/camera was far off at the other location but I had a tape measure on me, so I measured him (39 inches) and braced my rod on the rocks as I ran for my camera/pack. When I came back the knot had snapped and he was sitting in a couple of inches of water. Knowing I had returned he splashed for freedom as I reached for the camera...and got away before I could get a pic. I told the other bank tanglers "did you release my fish" and they replied "No.... but that fish was muy muy muy grande!!!!". With time running out I packed up and left with perhaps my best day at Pineview under my belt. From now on I think I will ditch out on Causey in the near future. For all you bank tanglers out there...there is hope for the infamous Tiger Muskie. While driving back down Ogden Canyon with TyeDyeTwin for some volunteer work (never found the place [mad]) we stopped for a picture of Utah's newest waterfall....a broken pipe created this one. It is amazing how much water goes through that pipe.
My 1st Tiger Muskie...if only I coulda got a pic of the 2nd.
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Utah's newest waterfall in Ogden Canyon
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Causey- Got to Causey around 8:30am. Waded out past the spillway to the 1st rocky point. Saw a 5 inch crawdad while walking out there. I never knew that reservoir had them in there. Started out by throwing a Gold Blue Fox spinner size 2 tipped with a nightcrawler. Had a few tigers pursue it and then a rainbow took it...then as I was reeling him in he bumped his head on the rock ledge and got free. Saw a massive tiger trout cruzing the shoreline. I switched to a black bomber rapalla and he followed it and then swam off the other way. Not liking the scene I switched to the upper ogden river below the dam. Same story...no fish. Went back to Causey and tried the other side of the dam. While fishing a man came up to me and said that he needed some hooks cause he left his tackle box at home. Thinking good karma would come my way I gave him 6 hooks and to my dismay my spinner got jammed on the bottom and I lost it! I lost faith in my karma theory and bailed to Pineview (where karma paid me back) to fish for an hour before picking up TyeDyeTwin who was tooning with MarineSpear.
Pineview- Got to the parking lot where all the BFT's met up earlier in the day. Threw out a Gold Blue Fox size 3 spinner tipped with a nightcrawler. On the 1st cast a watched as a submarine ambushed my spinner and bam...hooked up with my 1st ever Tiger Muskie. Got him up on shore, measured him (25 inches), took a pic and let him swim off. After just a couple of casts I moved 100 feet down the beach. After 7 casts I felt a huge snag. I pulled and thought, "ok I'll pull in this bush". Then the line went left, right and left again. I started reeling in fast and thats when the monster Tiger Muskie breached and my line shot off into the lake. In a few minutes I got the beast on shore. My pack/camera was far off at the other location but I had a tape measure on me, so I measured him (39 inches) and braced my rod on the rocks as I ran for my camera/pack. When I came back the knot had snapped and he was sitting in a couple of inches of water. Knowing I had returned he splashed for freedom as I reached for the camera...and got away before I could get a pic. I told the other bank tanglers "did you release my fish" and they replied "No.... but that fish was muy muy muy grande!!!!". With time running out I packed up and left with perhaps my best day at Pineview under my belt. From now on I think I will ditch out on Causey in the near future. For all you bank tanglers out there...there is hope for the infamous Tiger Muskie. While driving back down Ogden Canyon with TyeDyeTwin for some volunteer work (never found the place [mad]) we stopped for a picture of Utah's newest waterfall....a broken pipe created this one. It is amazing how much water goes through that pipe.
My 1st Tiger Muskie...if only I coulda got a pic of the 2nd.
Utah's newest waterfall in Ogden Canyon
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