Powell 2010
Our annual September Lake Powell trip was better then ever. (It even felt more like a vacation than a trip) The weather for the most part stayed awesome giving us lots of glass for wakeboarding, surfing, sking and of course chasing boils. The main focus of the trip was water sports, since Liz and I had just picked up a Mastercraft X-30 the week before the trip. The ole Glastron was great and treated us well, but lets be real. Its not even close to as nice as an X-30. With our new baby, I spent most of the off time checking out how things worked on the boat. (like the shower, bilge pump, ballast tanks, speakers, etc…) The rest of the time we hungout on the houseboat playing cards, eating, laying out, watching movies on the cliff walls and catching bass and carp that patrolled the houseboat. One of the best parts of the trip was that we didn’t have to go out side of our cove to find great fishing. The cove we stayed held lots of shad and where you find shad you find ambushing strippers and bass. So every morning and evening we listened for the boils and when we heard them its was an all out stampede to get to them before they stopped. In all it was a little piece of heaven on earth. There are few other things that rival a 7 day vacation to Lake Powell durning the first weekend in September. Its a magical place to say the least. The pictures will help tell the rest of the story…
about 8 months ago
Travis,
Have you caught carp on a fly at Powell? In the middle of the day when the bass go deeper I throw all kinds of flies at carp but either their lips are to soft or they don’t like what I’m tossing. What flies have you caught them on?
about 8 months ago
Pete, Carp are surprisingly picky at Powell if ur not using bread behind ur houseboat. A couple things have helped me when site fishing carp. #1 make sure they dont see u or ur line. I use about a 15-20ft leader of fluoro down to 5x. Then when u see a fish or fish to the cruisers make sure that they cant see u, cause in most cases thats the game changer.(they get very cautious if they no something isn’t normal) I usually stay pretty far back an make longer casts, cause I noticed lots more hook ups if the fish werent seeing me and feed without fear. #2 movement and depth also play a huge role. U got to see how the fish like it for the day. Sometimes they key on movement and other times they spook on it and want it a dead still. So play around with the presentation until u find what they like for the day. As far as flies, its pretty basic I like to use small (#10-16) leeches and buggers. Also i tie a little crayfish pattern that is real good. I always have really buggy looking hares ears and scuds as well. Don’t forget some bread flies for the kids behind the boat. They love it! Hope this helps, but for me I have noticed its not so much the bug as it is the presentation for these picky fish. So thats what I mostly focus on first then the bug later.
Travis