Lundman
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Got a late start Thursday night about 8:30 pm - got to Buckboard Camp Ground around 1 am after a couple stops - Walmart Evanston & Mavarick in Mountain Home. A very large racoon was runnning through the camp ground looking for a late night snack. The temperature was about 25 degrees and the wind was blown about 10 to 15 mph. I have an 8' Lance camper in truck bed for survival and I was glad I had bought the -20 below sleeping bags.
Got up Friday morning to Sunny and a steady breeze and the high temp for the day was 42 and the worst part was the fishing just plain sucked. We trolled for 9 am to 2 pm and only had 3 hits - caught two of them - one pup mack & one rainbow both under 3 pounds (good eaters). The wind picked up for the afternoon to 10 to 20 and cold.
Everyone we talked to (about 10 other boats) said they had been skunked or caught one trout. They said the wind was nuking all day Thursday. So I guess we did as good as anyone but it was one cold & windy adventure.
Headed to Manila to the Hub for a burger and beer and watch the LA & Houston Game. It was a Good decision to recharge our mojo or maybe thaw it out!! After that we headed down to camp at swim beach and it was dead calm. Full Moon was out and it was a prefect night. Woked up to frost on the boat and a prefect Sunny and calm day. Not warm but warmer than the previous day.
Headed to Luceren to get coffee and headed back up lake to go fishing. Launched and within 5 mins had what turned out to be the biggest fish of the trip 20.5 inches. In the next hour caught 4 more quality fish and had a few drive by's... We tried a couple of other spots since cruising around on glass conditions wasn't a problem but never got into the fish. So we headed back to the first place and I tried my afternoon tactic and bang - got our last two fish within 20 mins.
Loaded up and headed back to the Lucerne fish cleaning station after talking to a couple other folk who had said the fishing had shutdown about 10:30 to 11:00.
We cleaned the fish and headed to Starvation for Saturday evening and Sunday morning walleye fishing and it was a freaking heat wave on that side of the mountains - 58 degrees in Vernal thumbsup
No walleye but overall a great learning trip and had to thank the wife for spending Mother's day weekend at the Gorge instead of Lake Powell.
Got up Friday morning to Sunny and a steady breeze and the high temp for the day was 42 and the worst part was the fishing just plain sucked. We trolled for 9 am to 2 pm and only had 3 hits - caught two of them - one pup mack & one rainbow both under 3 pounds (good eaters). The wind picked up for the afternoon to 10 to 20 and cold.
Everyone we talked to (about 10 other boats) said they had been skunked or caught one trout. They said the wind was nuking all day Thursday. So I guess we did as good as anyone but it was one cold & windy adventure.
Headed to Manila to the Hub for a burger and beer and watch the LA & Houston Game. It was a Good decision to recharge our mojo or maybe thaw it out!! After that we headed down to camp at swim beach and it was dead calm. Full Moon was out and it was a prefect night. Woked up to frost on the boat and a prefect Sunny and calm day. Not warm but warmer than the previous day.
Headed to Luceren to get coffee and headed back up lake to go fishing. Launched and within 5 mins had what turned out to be the biggest fish of the trip 20.5 inches. In the next hour caught 4 more quality fish and had a few drive by's... We tried a couple of other spots since cruising around on glass conditions wasn't a problem but never got into the fish. So we headed back to the first place and I tried my afternoon tactic and bang - got our last two fish within 20 mins.
Loaded up and headed back to the Lucerne fish cleaning station after talking to a couple other folk who had said the fishing had shutdown about 10:30 to 11:00.
We cleaned the fish and headed to Starvation for Saturday evening and Sunday morning walleye fishing and it was a freaking heat wave on that side of the mountains - 58 degrees in Vernal thumbsup
No walleye but overall a great learning trip and had to thank the wife for spending Mother's day weekend at the Gorge instead of Lake Powell.
