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…

This years Lake Powell trip was full of surprises and great moments.  Originally we had planned on going to the Green River to celebrate Jordan’s homecoming, but with an invite to Powell and a nice houseboat the families plans changed within seconds.  I had mixed feelings about this as I love the Green more than anything and was looking forward to five days on the river, but I also was stoked to try out the new ski-boat and have the chance to chase some warm water fish and relax in the sun. The fishing kicked off as we were greeted with a boil in our bay as we returned from our afternoon boating. Jordan hooked up on his first cast and if it wasn’t for a crazy girl on a wave runner doing donuts around us and putting down all the fish we would have had a night.  But for anyone who has fished this amazing fishery, knows that with a little effort you can find some of the best warm water fishing in the country. We tasted a little of that as our crew caught smallmouths, largemouths, stripers, carp, catfish, sunfish, and bluegill. In all it was a great trip and one step closer to figuring out this vast reservoir of water and catching a over sized stiper on my fly rod. 

Gunners Large and Smallmouths

As far as the boating goes the weather was excellent, giving us nice water and some of the best wakeboarding, wakesurfing conditions. Fall is definatily my favorite time to be on the lake.