Lake Powell
May 18th, 2009
Our very good friend & #1 out of area contributor…Bobby D..
I just got back from 3 days of unbelievable fishing on Lake Powell. I went down there to fish two tournaments with our local club Southern Utah Bass Anglers. My partner and I for the Saturday tournament shared a hotel room and expenses, so we left at 3am on Friday to get to the lake at 6am for some prefishing. We launched the boat soon as we got there and ran pretty far uplake through the cut to see what we could find and to form a plan for Saturday. Basically everywhere we went we caught fish. Mostly smallmouth bass with some largemouth mixed in. After getting back to the marina around 4pm we called it a day and heading for our hotel room.
On Saturday we decided that since the fishing was great everywhere, we would stay close in Wahweep and fish hard. It paid off too. We caught too many fish to count, but the trick was to find the largemouth, which we finally did later in the day. Ended up culling out an early sack of smallies for a decent sack of largemouth. Unfortunately we just couldn’t land our “kicker fish”. I had a good 3-4 lb largie on and was getting him to the boat when it took a nose dive into a little twig of a tree and wrapped itself around and then as I tried to free it, it took another dive and snapped me off and took my favorite spinner bait with it. My partner also lost a good fish later on a jig. We ended up finishing in 2nd place, just 2lbs out of a winning sack.
My highlight of Saturday was catching a nice striper with a rattle trap. This was the first time I caught one of these, so I was pretty stoked. On Sunday, I had a different partner and we did good, but the fishing was a little slower and was couldn’t find the bigger largemouth. We finished in 3rd place with a nice sack of smallies. Another first for me on Sunday was catching a walleye. It was early morning and I was tossing around a jerkbait and I had it almost to the side of the boat when the walleye came out from the depths to dig his teeth into my lure. Pretty cool to see the whole thing happen.
This was a trip of a lifetime and Lake Powell is a beautiful place. My only regret was not taking more pictures of the many fish I caught. I was just too busy catching to pause for pictures, but I did get a nice shot of that striper….
Bobby Didier aka The Real D Insane
