Aurora Res w/ Dan

Fished for a few hours with Dan today at Aurora Res. We drug worms on bottom bouncers and did pretty good. Got quite a few walleye, one keeper at 20" Also managed 3 jumbo yellow perch. Good eats!

Spinney 9/14

I have hit Spinney the last two weekends fishing for Pike. This lake has a ton of Pike and no water skiers! Diane and I both caught a ton of fish. Biggest one was about 32" We caught Pike with spinners, super spooks, chatter baits, swim baits, and flies! I managed to catch my first Pike on the fly, a blue and silver clouser minnow. This was two years in the making and the whole reason I started fly fishing :D

Spinney Res 9/8

Took my first trip to Spinny. Caught a pike literally on my first cast! managed four for the day. Biggest was 32" Had a huge pike charge my lure but I ran out of room at the boat and paused the lure. The pike just looked at it and took off :\ Caught fish on big swim baits, spinners, and husky jerks.

Navajo Lake - Labor Day

First time at Navajo. Awesome lake. Diane and I both managed some pike and several small mouths. Going to head back this fall. Really liking the new boat. I was able to break it in fully on Navajo.

In with the new!

Sold the old Tracker and picked up the 2020 1875 Lund Impact with a 150 Merc!

Lake Michigan

Granby and Williams Fork

Fish was pretty decent. Managed to lose a rod and reel over the side when I hooked a big fish in Williams Fork! Saw a lot of moose. One right outside my camper. Stayed at Elk Creek RV park. That place is pretty nice. Too many people on the weekends though! The water in Granby was lower than I have ever seen it.

Blue Mesa

We head home tomorrow. It's been a good trip. We managed 3 master angler trout and a host of other decent fish. I think I have a better feel for this lake now. I also got a little more familiar with using the bottom lock view on my sonar. Looking forward to being home.

Blue Mesa 5/24

The weather has been pretty bad for the last few days. We were not able to go out and fish. Today we got a break. It was about 27 degrees in the morning, but no wind and sunny. It warmed up pretty fast.

Today I found where the big fish had been hiding. Found them in about 28 FOW in Sapinero Basin. Diane killed it, I did pretty decent. She caught a 33.5" fish that weighed 24lbs!! I caught a 32". We also caught several more. 3-4 between 25-30"

Me playing grab ass with a trout.

The trout trying to bite me for playing grab ass

Blue Mesa 5/20 and 5/21

Last few days the weather has been rough. On Monday Diane and I fished from 6 to 8am. It was super windy and dumping snow and rain. We found a lot of browns and a few lakers in Lake Fork area.

Our RV site had shit wifi and literally no cell coverage. So today we moved to the Gunnison KOA. Great cell coverage but the wifi is down..wtf. Anywho, going to go out for a few hours tomorrow in Ceboila Basin.

Blue Mesa 5/19

Diane and I hit the lake this morning at 6am. Since the boat was last at the Flaming Gorge the boat had to be deconed. The hotsy used for decon was not available until 7am. I was finally on the water at 7:50...

We started in the spots we did well at last year. Caught a few browns and small lakers. Searched around a lot without much luck. In the afternoon we started doing better. Caught a whole bunch more browns and a few more lakers. I did not see any big marks on the graph.

Finally at the end of the day I started looking around near the Lake Fork boat ramp. Saw our first biggish mark of the day. Diane caught it, 28" laker. Then I caught a fat 24". Few more lakers, then I caught a 21.5" Brown! Only 1/2 shy of a master angler.

Overall we caught 40ish fish. Not too bad, but we did not find any big ones really.