11-06-2007, 02:01 AM
[cool][blue]Swedishfish and I headed for Yuba this morning, full of expectation of catching some big ol' northerns and wallies. We were full of something, all right.
20 degree air temp as we stopped at the state park over look to take a pic of the neato columns of steam rising off the lake. Oops. No camera. First time in five years I have left my camera home on a fishing trip. JINXO.
Yuba is suffering from low water like all the other Utah lakes. No water behind the bridge to launch from..Actually we drove down under the bridge and launched from a sand bar in front of the bridge. That low.
Water temp 49 at launch, but there was a few inches of thin ice around the edges in the cold morning air. The light westerly breeze made every layer welcome this morning. Fingers got cold even with the fingerless gloves.
No surface activity. No fish responding to spinners or jigs next to shore...or out away from shore. Where are the rainbows this year?
Ryan headed east along the gravelly north shoreline. I worked across the face of the dam and around the rubble shoreline to the south. Nada, zilch, zippo. No hits, no runs no fishies. Watched the sonar as we worked from shallow out to past 30 feet. DID NOT MARK ANY FISH until after 30 feet deep. Then they got more plentiful until in the deepest areas...about 50 feet...there were lots of marks. Only problem was that they all had their little mouths closed. Don't know whether they were neutral or negative but they were not biting any of the jigs or other stuff we sent down for a vote.
After the sun had been on the water for a while, we started getting some tiny taps and both caught a few perch. Most were small but several were between 10 to 11 inches. Pale and skinny. Wonderperch. While I jigged seriously to try to find something else in the depths, I floated a bubble and fly out behind my tube. Had a couple of whacks before landing a bright and beautiful 13" yearling bow. Not the 6-8 pounders of a couple of years ago, but a brief interlude from the perch.
We had planned to go to Painted Rocks as Plan B if the fishing was not good near the dam. But, since we did not think the water would be over 30 feet deep down there, and there did not seem to be any fish shallower than 30 feet, we opted to get out and head to Utah Lake to drag some of our unused minnows. Air temp had risen to 55 degrees and the water to 51 when we got out of Yuba about 11.
Hit the water at Lincoln Beach about 1 PM. Water temp there was 51 too...and about the cleanest I have seen it in a long time. The nice weather of the past week or so has helped settle the sludge. Hasn't improved fishing though. Lots of casting jigs and dragging baits without much action. A couple of runners on minnows (no hookups) and one 8" white bass on a little pink jig. That was it. At least the weather was wonderful. Flat glass all afternoon.
When we discovered that I had forgotten to bring the camera we wondered which way the jinx would go...lots of big fish, with no way to take pictures...or no fish at all as a punishment for forgetting the stupid camera. Looks like the latter mode kicked in. No skunk but still stinky. But, it was a fun and pretty day on the water.
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20 degree air temp as we stopped at the state park over look to take a pic of the neato columns of steam rising off the lake. Oops. No camera. First time in five years I have left my camera home on a fishing trip. JINXO.
Yuba is suffering from low water like all the other Utah lakes. No water behind the bridge to launch from..Actually we drove down under the bridge and launched from a sand bar in front of the bridge. That low.
Water temp 49 at launch, but there was a few inches of thin ice around the edges in the cold morning air. The light westerly breeze made every layer welcome this morning. Fingers got cold even with the fingerless gloves.
No surface activity. No fish responding to spinners or jigs next to shore...or out away from shore. Where are the rainbows this year?
Ryan headed east along the gravelly north shoreline. I worked across the face of the dam and around the rubble shoreline to the south. Nada, zilch, zippo. No hits, no runs no fishies. Watched the sonar as we worked from shallow out to past 30 feet. DID NOT MARK ANY FISH until after 30 feet deep. Then they got more plentiful until in the deepest areas...about 50 feet...there were lots of marks. Only problem was that they all had their little mouths closed. Don't know whether they were neutral or negative but they were not biting any of the jigs or other stuff we sent down for a vote.
After the sun had been on the water for a while, we started getting some tiny taps and both caught a few perch. Most were small but several were between 10 to 11 inches. Pale and skinny. Wonderperch. While I jigged seriously to try to find something else in the depths, I floated a bubble and fly out behind my tube. Had a couple of whacks before landing a bright and beautiful 13" yearling bow. Not the 6-8 pounders of a couple of years ago, but a brief interlude from the perch.
We had planned to go to Painted Rocks as Plan B if the fishing was not good near the dam. But, since we did not think the water would be over 30 feet deep down there, and there did not seem to be any fish shallower than 30 feet, we opted to get out and head to Utah Lake to drag some of our unused minnows. Air temp had risen to 55 degrees and the water to 51 when we got out of Yuba about 11.
Hit the water at Lincoln Beach about 1 PM. Water temp there was 51 too...and about the cleanest I have seen it in a long time. The nice weather of the past week or so has helped settle the sludge. Hasn't improved fishing though. Lots of casting jigs and dragging baits without much action. A couple of runners on minnows (no hookups) and one 8" white bass on a little pink jig. That was it. At least the weather was wonderful. Flat glass all afternoon.
When we discovered that I had forgotten to bring the camera we wondered which way the jinx would go...lots of big fish, with no way to take pictures...or no fish at all as a punishment for forgetting the stupid camera. Looks like the latter mode kicked in. No skunk but still stinky. But, it was a fun and pretty day on the water.
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] Early spring and summer i have caught bows with teeth marks on them. I guess a 16 inch bow would be more fullfilling than a scrawny perch. I was there last week and it was the same way .Perch small and skinny.![[Image: Scott4fish.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v155/muleskinner/Scott4fish.jpg)
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