Headed up to Jordanelle with my Dad this morning at about 5:00...only to see it start raining when we drove past Jeremy Ranch...luckily it hadn't start raining at the 'nelle yet. We got to our usual spot and rigged up some powerbait to catch some bows and relax. It wasn't more than 3 or 4 minutes after I cast out that my pole started bouncin' like crazy and that's when I knew it was gonna be a good day of fishin', it ended up being a hefty 16" bow, the best one for the day. After that we received a lot of small bites and caught 10-11 total between the both of us. We kept 4 that I caught, 2 were smaller, but were hooked deep and went belly up so I kept them. We were having a lot of success with green and yellow powerbait. I also changed my line to Floroclear P-Line and noticed a world of difference! I caught all my fish on that pole. My other pole had a few small bites, but no hookups.(I have a two pole permit, which I think was well worth it...most of the time 
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At about 8:00, the clouds started rolling in really thick and started drizzling and made a nice muddy scene where we were at since all there was were rocks and mud. The water was so low that we were fishing from where our bait usually sits. Anyhow, there was a guy in a truck on the other side of the bay who was callin' for Coyotes for quite a while with no luck, the noise kinda got old, but the rain must have made him give up.
We kept fishing through the rain until about 10:00 then we took off with our nice creel of fish. I also went scavenging through the rocks looking for lures/hooks/weights, etc from snags left behind when the water was higher like I always do and I found quite a few egg sinkers, hooks, and ever a gold Jake's spinner! That is the second one I have found at Jordanelle! I should have brought a metal detector. When we left I noticed a sign that said to limit consumption of Brown Trout, I guess they have elevated levels of mercury.
Next time I go to Jordanelle (next week), I will definitely try some flies, there were trout surfacing everywhere! All in all it was good to go fishing with my dad, haven't done that in a long time!
) At about 8:00, the clouds started rolling in really thick and started drizzling and made a nice muddy scene where we were at since all there was were rocks and mud. The water was so low that we were fishing from where our bait usually sits. Anyhow, there was a guy in a truck on the other side of the bay who was callin' for Coyotes for quite a while with no luck, the noise kinda got old, but the rain must have made him give up.
We kept fishing through the rain until about 10:00 then we took off with our nice creel of fish. I also went scavenging through the rocks looking for lures/hooks/weights, etc from snags left behind when the water was higher like I always do and I found quite a few egg sinkers, hooks, and ever a gold Jake's spinner! That is the second one I have found at Jordanelle! I should have brought a metal detector. When we left I noticed a sign that said to limit consumption of Brown Trout, I guess they have elevated levels of mercury.
Next time I go to Jordanelle (next week), I will definitely try some flies, there were trout surfacing everywhere! All in all it was good to go fishing with my dad, haven't done that in a long time!
