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     My father-in-law, Jack Daddy, and I hit Quail Creek for our weekly Friday fishing trip while my daughter is in school.  Was another tough 3 hours of fishing, but it was quaility over quantity again. 

     We launched about 930am into 73 degree water with smooth glass like surfaces.  Only about 3 boats beat us out there.  We headed to my buddy John’s spot in hopes of some hogs, but I only caught a couple 12 inch fish on weightless senko’s.  Jack daddy only donated a few jigs to the lake bottom. 

     We motored out of there and headed to “the sticks”.  This is a long beach-like shoreline near the campgrounds that is loaded with flooded sticks.  This is the same place I caught my personal best earlier this year in March.  Anyway, the first bite over here was a bluegill caught by Jack daddy on a craw.  Then I tossed my senko into the brush and just saw my line take off.  I set the hook and tried to muscle the hog out of the bushes.  Got it past the first couple then it wrapped me up on a last stick before the boat.  Jack daddy grabbed the net as I trolled us closer, all while watching the fish pull my line up and down on the stick.  I thought it was gonna snap for sure, but Jack scooped it up just in the nick of time.  High fives ensued.  Weighed near 4 lbs and measured about 19 1/4 inches.

     Jack Daddy, who was struggling a bit finally hooks into a nice fish with his signature craw/jig and fights it perfectly into the net.  This fish measured 20 inches and weighed around 3 1/2 pounds, which I still thought was light.  We fished for about another 1/2 hour before we had to leave, but no bites.  Not a great day, but not a bad day either. 

     Next Friday we’ll head to our other nearby reservoir, Sand Hollow, where it’s usually more quantity than quality, but does have some giants too.  I will be scoping out the lake for the next day’s tournament. 

PEACE OUT……

I did some half ass fishing last weekend at a local reservoir down here in southern Utah.  This reservoir, Quail Creek, is only a 15 min ride from my house and holds some quaility largemouth bass that are fed by tons of stocked rainbow trout, along with populations of bluegill, green sunfish, black crappie, and crawdads. 

So let’s just say these bass are well fed and can be hard to catch at times, but when you get into them they are usually very nice in size.  The current catch and release state record is from this lake.  Which was a 27 inch behemoth.  Anyways, I say it was half assed because it was on a typical busy Saturday after sleeping in.  Real fisherman don’t sleep in…..lol. 

So we got to the lake a bit late and had a slow start in our first little cove tossing around some football jigs with hula grubs.  My wife wanted to throw a drop shot since she has more confidence fishing that technique.  Of course I had to set it up, so after I got it ready I snuck in a couple casts and just got hammered by the fish in the picture.  This fish was just pissed!  Made about 3-4 good runs before we netted it. 

The handheld was reading 3 lb 14 oz - 4 lbs.  Snapped the picture and released it to be caught another day.  Ok, we thought the bite was gonna start to pick up but it didn’t.  I called my buddy John, who was on the lake in his bass boat wacking fish all morning and found out where he was and bolted over to “his spot” and began to get bites.  My wife then hooks into a nice 18 inch largemouth and watching her fight this fish made the whole trip for me.  I did have to help her with her drag a couple times though. 

Anyway, the fish was hooked pretty deep, but I managed to get the hook out without any damage, but due to how long it took me we released it without snapping a picture.  We figured we would catch more.  We didn’t.  Well I did catch another bass about 12 inches and a couple big bluegill. 

We decided to make a move and let John have his spot to himself but that turned out to be a bad move.  Stayed about a hour or two more but no bites so the wife and daughter just went swimming.  Was a decent day as it aways is on the water.  Quaility over quantity this trip.  Now if all goes right with this first attempt at a post, the picture will show up.  Later…….Bobby D.