Wayne’s Words Lake Powell Fishing Report 6-06-12

  My weekly fishing trip was one day after a full moon and a big windstorm.  I wasn’t expecting much but was pleased to find cooperative smallmouth and striped bass. Stripers were feeding on plankton near the surface at the edge of the brush line.   They seemed to be slightly deeper than last week with most hits coming where bottom depth was 25-30 feet. Every time we trolled into shallower water, pesky smallmouth would whack our Lucky Craft Bevy Shad lures. In 2 hours of Read More +

Wayne’s Words May 29, 2012 – Slurps Start

    Lake Powell Fish Report – May 29, 2012 Lake Elevation: 3636 Water Temperature 63-70 Striped bass fishing is now perking up.  The spawn is over allowing adult stripers to focus on finding food instead of spawning.   “Food” is quite small as shad, their primary forage item, are less than an inch long.  These tiny shad live very near the surface so stripers skim the surface to effectively feed on their tiny prey.  These surface feeding (slurps) events can be readily observed by anglers.  Read More +

Lake Powell Fishing Report 5-22-12

Photo caption: Brian Myers from Colorado took some friends fishing in Good Hope Bay. They found fishing to be great for smallmouth bass. Stripers are spawning this week and only being caught at night. That will change as boils are predicted to begin in June.   Lake Powell Fish Report ­ May 22 2012 Lake Elevation: 3636 Water Temperature 70-75 F By: Wayne Gustaveson   We did a tour of the recent hot spots and found fish holding in the same spots as last week. Read More +

Lake Powell Fishing Report 5-20-12

Lake Powell Fly Fishing for Stripers Tim from Pindale, WY 5-17-12 Lake Powell Elevation 3635.96 Water Temp:   70-71 degrees My day with professional drift boat guide tim from Pindale, WY was a special day since we could share lots of guide related stories and experiences.  Tim caught some really nice schoolie size stripers and smallmouth as well.  I look forward to his return to Lake Powell.  Fly Fishing on the Lake is “on”. Tight Lines, Capt. Bill  

Lake Powell Fishing Report 5-15-12

Photo:  Ryan Mosley and Lowell Marthe, Dutch John UT, caught a mixed bag of species while fishing Lake Powell.  Here they hold stripers and walleye but they also caught crappie and smallmouth in abundance. It has been that kind of year at the lake and fishing continues to be excellent for all species.  In addition, striper fishing has just improved dramatically this past week.   Lake Powell Fish Report – May 15, 2012 Lake Elevation: 3636 Water Temperature 65-72 F By: Wayne Gustaveson   Forgive Read More +

Lake Powell May 13, 2012

  Lake Powell has produced some of the best Walleye Fishing this year I have ever seen.  All my guests have been catching and the size are 3+ lbs.  Water temps have reach 72 degrees which is now beginning to show Stripers on the top “slurping”.  This is what we have been waiting for.   Judy was as the Shad Rally and one of the “participants” caught 101 stripers on his boat.  Lots of smallmouth are still being caught.  Stripers are gaining size and weight and Read More +

Lake Powell Fishing Report May 10, 2012

Photo Caption. Ed Feller (right) and his favorite brother Jeff fished together at Hite. Trolling for stripers was good, but smallmouth bass fishing was better.  They had a great fishing trip which will make great memories.  Now is the time to take the family fishing at Lake Powell Lake Powell Fish Report – May 10, 2012 Lake Elevation: 3635 Water Temperature 64-72 F By: Wayne Gustaveson   For another week Lake Powell’s water level is stable and temperature remains in the low 60’s which is Read More +

Lake Powell Fishing Report May 6, 2012

Lake Powell Elevation: 3635.94 Smallmouth action is at it’s best and stripers are on hold as for as the “anchovie” bite goes.  Top water action is only a month out and it shows to be excellent.  Stumbled across a few Walleye this week as well which is always excellent. Capt. Bill