More to Follow - Book Cliffs Elk Hunt

Can't Produce When It Counts!

What can I say - I suck!

T-Minus 6 Days to Tournament

The Starvation Classic is fast approaching and I took advantage of a great opportunity to practice today. T and Heath were able to join me and together we caught 6 Walleye and several yellow perch. The biggest of the bunch was 22" long - my season best so far. Trolling a Rapala was the only way we could catch them today. Even more strange was the time we caught them - not until 12:30 in the afternoon? I hope that we are able to successfully land a couple of limits next weekend!

More Starvation....

Hit the lake at 6:00 a.m. on Sunday and fished until night fall. We caught several Walleye - biggest ones being 19" & 18". The yellow perch were thick! I lost track of how many of those we caught. We were also able to find a few small mouth in the lake. We had the best luck using Crawdad Imitators and Lindy Rigs.

Walleye Chasing in August

I took advantage of a guys only fishing trip on Saturday August 2nd. We hit Starvation at 7:00 a.m. and fished until 2:30 p.m. The fishing was steady but not fast. The bag of fish include a 19", 17", and 15" Walleye, a 2lbs Small Mouth, and a few Yellow Perch. The biggest walleye came from a yellow grub fished in a weed bed. There were several boats fishing around us all morning. As the day went on, recreation boats made it impossible to continue fishing. I had three boats pulling tubes around my boat - waves came over the side - and to top it off a water ski boat pulled up and began to load up my markers from the water! That's when I decided it was time to go home......

Sandwash Trip August 5th

The entire family went to Sandwash for the evening fish on Tuesday. We caught several rainbow trout with a variety of tactics. We had the best luck fishing deeper water with a worm harness. As the evening progressed pop gear and a worm was the top producer. Still a red tagged fish didn't find it's way to our boat!

Book Cliffs Scouting Trip July 27th

This will be the first of a series of posts documenting my Book Cliffs Bittercreek Bull Elk Hunt. Brent Fenn and I put 100 miles on the four wheelers Sunday July 27th riding around the Book Cliffs. We spotted lots of Buck Deer - however the largest was around 25". Most of the Bucks were 4 points with a less than 20" spread. The majority of the time was spent based out of the divide. In the AM hours we went toward Colorado and in afternoon rode to the Roadless area. We counted approximately 50 bucks.

We seen around 15 elk - all of which were cows. After talking to some others in the area we learned there were some smaller rag bulls around but nothing to brag about.

We also spent some time during lunch at P and R Springs.

Fishing Report - July 19th

Spent all weekend at Steinker Lake, Vernal UT. Was able to catch serveral small to medium sized Large Mouth Bass and numberous Rainbows under 16 inches. It seems the Trout were more active in deeper water. We used lead core line and a worm harness to peak there interest. Pop Gear and a Worm were useless. Bass were buried in heavy cover and had to wiggle a softbait in their face to get a strike. Finally the kids enjoyed their playtime on the new tube.