07-01-2004, 02:25 PM
Went up to Jordanelle last night, and finally had a good smallmouth trip.
From my tube, I caught an 19", 17", and a bunch around 15" - 16". I've always just got little smallies and tons of perch from my tube at Rock Cliffs, so I decided to try a different spot than close to where the road drives into the water at Rock Cliffs.
I parked at Rock Cliffs around 3pm, and walked along the reservoir perimeter trail until I got to the "no wake" buoys, and I put my tube in there. Then I just kicked slowly west, looking for places I thought they'd be. By 9pm, I'd floated all the way out of Rock Cliffs, and got a little further than I thought I'd go. I got off the water at 9pm, and it took me an hour and 15 min. to walk back to Rock Cliffs, walking on the perimiter trail. Thank goodness for the full moon to light the path!
The bigger fish were still pretty close to shore. I caught both bigger ones in places where there was a transition from bigger rocks to smaller rocks, and no rocks to gravel. I caught the biggest one on a 3/8 brown/green spinnerbait, and all the others on 5" Senkos. A variety of colors. Black w/ blue speckles, and Watermelon seemed to be the favorites.
There were some skiers stopped close by as I was bringing in the 17" one, and they were nice eneough to take a picture.
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From my tube, I caught an 19", 17", and a bunch around 15" - 16". I've always just got little smallies and tons of perch from my tube at Rock Cliffs, so I decided to try a different spot than close to where the road drives into the water at Rock Cliffs.
I parked at Rock Cliffs around 3pm, and walked along the reservoir perimeter trail until I got to the "no wake" buoys, and I put my tube in there. Then I just kicked slowly west, looking for places I thought they'd be. By 9pm, I'd floated all the way out of Rock Cliffs, and got a little further than I thought I'd go. I got off the water at 9pm, and it took me an hour and 15 min. to walk back to Rock Cliffs, walking on the perimiter trail. Thank goodness for the full moon to light the path!
The bigger fish were still pretty close to shore. I caught both bigger ones in places where there was a transition from bigger rocks to smaller rocks, and no rocks to gravel. I caught the biggest one on a 3/8 brown/green spinnerbait, and all the others on 5" Senkos. A variety of colors. Black w/ blue speckles, and Watermelon seemed to be the favorites.
There were some skiers stopped close by as I was bringing in the 17" one, and they were nice eneough to take a picture.
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