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Thursday, May 17th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 66

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTMAY 17, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3664 Water Temperature: 66-72 FWater warms into the 70's by aternoon. That allows another group o ish to get with thespawning program. Carp and shad spawn on the surace. The real noisy, splashy commotion inthe shallows that lasts all day long is carp chasing each other. The quieter smaller splashesbeginning at irst light and continuing until about 7 am is shad perorming the daily spawningritual. Game ish don

Wednesday, May 9th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 62

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTMAY 10, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3663 Water Temperature: 62-68 FWarm weather has returned. This warm spell has started snowmelt runo which will increaselake level, turbidity and stimulate plankton growth. Warm calm weather means that stripers willsoon spawn and then move away rom places they have been caught all spring. Bass havespawned again. Conditions are prime or good ishing. Striped bass are ound in smaller groups but in many more locations with decreasing catchescoming rom lower lake staging areas. The dam and power plant are still steady with averagecatch being 10-20 ish per boat or a day o ishing. Schools are moving along the walls and canbe ound anywhere in the main channel or long canyons between Wahweap and Hite. Shad havenot spawned yet and are not abundant. Look or striped bass near main channel points withbroken rubble rock where they can orage or crayish. Steep clis oer no reason or striperschools to stop moving until they come to a spot that might provide ood. Fish points, ledges andisolated rough areas in smooth textured terrain. Chumming 5 inely chopped anchovies at eachspot will get stripers started i they are present. Driting anchovies or trolling in o-colored waterin the backs o canyons (30-40 eet) is another good way to locate a shallow eeding school.
    City: Page, AZ

    Tips: Four tagged stripers have been turned in during the million dollar ish contest which runs untilMay 24th. They were caught at the power plant intake, Navajo canyon, upper San Juan andmouth o Halls Creek. Smallmouth bass have spawned again. The irst two spawns involved larger individuals. Younger, shorter ish have built new nests near spots that larger ish have used or the past twoweeks. Look or soil on slick rock ledges. Bass an away soil until only the rock is let. Thenthey build the nest. Virtually any area that provides pebble size broken rock is now occupied bysmallmouth bass. All broken rock habitats are now working or smallmouth - submerged rees,boulder rock, any rock slide on the edge adjoining the cli ace, rocky coves and cuts and slots incanyons. I hesitate to say they are behind every rock but that

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2001

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    Water Temp: 59

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTMAY 3, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Web page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3662 Water Temperature: 59-66 FIt would be hard to visualize ishing conditions and results that were any better than thoseexperienced this past week. Bass moved into the shallows en mass to spawn. Stripers were verycooperative, particularly in the lower lake, with warming water enhancing the spawning instinct. Walleye were caught in large numbers in the upper lake. The Million Dollar Striper contest started May 1st and will run through May 24th. Stripers weretagged (25 ish) last week and evenly distributed between Hite and Wahweap. Tagged ish willrejoin existing schools and move throughout the reservoir. During the May spawning season it isnot uncommon or stripers to move over 100 miles in a three week period. So ish where stripersare congregated or the best chance o capturing a tagged ish. Stripers are attracted to currentand will run upriver to lowing water. Increased current and temperature induce spawning. TheColorado and San Juan river mudlines are good bets or trolling up good numbers o stripers. Inmuddy water use a highly visible long, minnow-shaped lure that will run at least 15 eet deep(wally diver type lures). Troll ast, at least 3-4 mph (1100 rpms) or best results.Stripers spawn in the main lake in the absence o current. A sudden increase in temperaturetriggers emales to spawn but males continually move to long prominent points near prespawnstaging areas where stripers have been caught all spring. Large schools o males can be locatedby concentrating on isolated points especially in areas where steep clis are the main habitat type. Check points in main channel between dam and power plant, Navajo Canyon, steep cli wall nearCookie Jar in Padre Bay, Boy 23 in Padre Bay, Last Chance and Rock Creek in the lower lake.Halls Creek and Moki wall midlake. These

Wednesday, April 25th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 58

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTAPRIL 26, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.waynewords.com Lake Elevation: 3662 Water Temperature: 55-65 FWarming has begun anew ollowing a week o cool weather and wind. Fish have respondedaccordingly with bass resuming their spawn and stripers hitting with more regularity. The hottest spot or striped bass is the power plant intake. The dam is good at times but ishingspace is limited with most ish caught on the visitors center side o the barricade by the irst 4 or 5metal buoys. The cli walls in between the dam and intake hold many ish that travel betweenthe two sites. Large prespawn striper schools move in and out during the day. When they are in, most anglerscatch ish in a hurry. The activity period is usually 3 hours long. Activity begins according to thewhim o the stripers. It varies rom early to late. On April 25th it was best rom noon to 4 PM.During the last warming trend mid day to aternoon was best. Then as temperature stabilized themorning period was best ishing. A patient angler willing to wait out the dry spells will berewarded with 30 ish when they start to bite. This is one o the ew times that I recommendwaiting instead o looking or inactive stripers. Tips that may help while waiting or ish to startbiting include moving to dierent spots along the intake wall. Inactive ish were more likely to hita bait that was slowly descending between 45 and 60 eet and usually on the irst cast. Movealong the wall, cast oten, use just enough weight to get the bait down to 60 eet. Chumming isgood. Amount o chum invested usually correlates well with number o ish caught at the end othe day. Uplake, stripers are biting well at the mudline which is ound near the mouth o North Wash. Trolling rattletraps and wally divers and driting anchovies at 40 eet is working well with largerstripers (up to 10 pounds) moving rom the lake toward the headwaters or spawning purposes. . Bass resumed spawning on April 23rd. There is one group o bass that spawned right beore thestorm. These eggs are now hatching and males will be guarding ry. The second group will bespawning and very aggressive this week. Another group has yet to spawn and will do so soon. With all bass trying to spawn ish those areas that provide spawning habitat. Steep, deeprockslides good in summer are not the area o choice. Look on points, ledges, terraces in waterrom 2-10 eet deep. Short coves o the main canyon with broken rock structure are the hotspots. Avoid deep drops and silty areas. Most canyons have a sand bottom with slick rock sides.Look on the sides or broken rock and soil to ind bass nests. Presence o brush enhances theprospect o catching a largemouth.Crappie will begin to spawn this week Their numbers are not large but the next two weeks willbe the best time to ind them. Release the dark black males to protect the nest and provide morecrappie or next year.
    City: Page, AZ

Wednesday, April 18th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTAPRIL 19, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3662 Water Temperature: 57-65 FThe irst black bass nests were seen on April 18 in Wahweap Bay. Bass spawning will ensue orthe next two weeks depending on how the next storm ront plays out. Cold winds will mix andcool the water and bass will abandon nests and pull back out to deep water. Light winds andcontinued warm air temperature means that bass will guard nests, be shallow and extremelycatchable. Early morning water temperatures are still in the high 50's ollowing night timecooling. By mid aternoon the entire lake is above 60 F. Aternoon ishing is much better than morning ishing or all species. Black bass are coming veryshallow to sun themselves and to seek nest sites. Most bass will be caught rom 2 to 15 eet deep. Since bass are poised or spawning, ish or them along the deep water edge o a rocky lat orterrace. Once the nest is built male bass will stay in the shallows. Females will be in closeproximity but deeper, usually just over the edge where visibility decreases. Males are superaggressive or the irst 2-3 days ater eggs are deposited. Then they become more docile witheach passing day. It is a good idea to release bass and crappie obviously caught guarding a nest.I the male is removed, all ish hatched will be lost to predation. The inherent desire to protect thenest and ry is what makes bass so aggressive and easy to catch.Prespawn striped bass are attracted to current created by the dam and power plant intake. Anchovy bait suspended at 40 eet is working to provide anglers about 10-30 ish per trip. Aternoon ishing rom 3 PM till dark is the best. Look all along the wall rom the dam to theintake during the mid day slowdown. Light line, small hooks and a one inch chunk o anchovy ona carolina rig (sinker 18 inches above the hook) is the best rigging method. Stripers are attracted to the current o the Colorado and San Juan river inlows but they are not aseasy to ind as those stacked up in ront o the dam. Trolling the mudline at Hite is a goodstarting point. Graphing and trolling across main channel points anywhere midlake is a good wayto ind a prespawn striper school. The irst ripe male striped bass was seen on April 18thollowing the rapid rise in surace water temperature. Males stage on long points waiting or ripeemales. Females spawn at dusk and just ater dark. When in spawning mode striper activity ismuch greater aternoon and evenings than mid day. Cooling will chase stripers back to prespawnholding areas. Continued warming will cause a move away rom holding areas to spawningpoints. As usually happens in the spring, tomorrow

Thursday, April 12th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTAPRIL 12, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3662 Water Temperature: 52-58 FWinter weather will inally blow away by Easter weekend. Amount and duration o warming willdictate intensity o the black bass bite. Striped bass activity is directly related to amount osunlight - not necessarily lake warming.Prespawn striped bass in the lower lake are gathering near current created at the dam and powerplant intake. Direct sun enhances striper attraction and activity levels. It seems that the besttimes to catch stripers at both locations is between 9 am and 2 pm (MST). Stripers may not showup at all on cloudy, windy days. But when the sun comes out stripers ollow. Expect big catcheso stripers at both locations on Easter weekend and the week ollowing.When large schools start to bite it is diicult NOT to catch them. As the eeding periodprogresses, stripers get selective and anglers using certain techniques tend to catch more ish. Iam still working on the very best technique or catching stripers in heavily ished areas but theseare some on the variables that work. Light line (or less visible line), probably smaller than 8pound test seems to catch more ish. Large anchovy hooks are NOT a good choice. It seems asmaller bait hook completely covered by a chunk o anchovy is better. More ish are caught on asmall piece o anchovy than on a whole ish. Quarter ounce jig heads in highly visible colors workwell at times. Sometimes adding a plastic grub to the jig head beore putting the chunk oanchovy on the hook works better. I you preer to reel slowly then the movement o the grubwould draw attention to the bait. I you preer to hold the bait stationary then a carolina riggedanchovy would be better. Very active ish will be shallow - usually about 5 eet below the pointwhere a bait disappears rom view. Resting ish are deeper and it may take a bait ished at 50-60eet to get a school started. Chumming a ew pieces o bait every 5-10 minutes keeps stripers byyour boat.Uplake stripers are being caught trolling near Hite and incidentally to bass ishing at midlake. The next time water warms to 60 degrees (irst temperature listed at top o report) black bass willspawn. Cool weather ollowed by abrupt warming will put spawning bass in the shallows at thesame time. Three days o sustained warm air temperatures ater the water warms to 60 degreeswill create excellent ishing. Gradual warming will mean scattered spawning and only goodishing. Crappie, bluegill and walleye ishing will improve as soon as water temperatures reach 60 degrees.
    City: Page, AZ

Thursday, April 5th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 54

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTAPRIL 5, 2001 Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3662 Water Temperature: 54-58 FThe irst major spring warming was erased by a persistent wind which mixed warm water withcold. Fortunately the entire upper layer is now starting to warm so all o the heat was not lost. Bass spawning was delayed and will now occur the next time water temperatures top 60 degrees. Abrupt warming ollowing a cold spell allows bass to nest and spawn simultaneously resulting ingreat ishing. Continued cold stormy weather means that bass will spawn haphazardly usuallyover an extended time period resulting in only air ishing. Watch the weather ollowing the nextcold ront or an indication o expected ishing success. A calm, stable period means great ishingwhile a series o storm ronts will allow only modest success.Striped bass respond like black bass to changing weather. Last week

Thursday, March 29th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 52-61F

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTMARCH 29, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3662 Water temperature: 52-60 FLake Powell is still on the cool side o great ishing. No spawning has yet occurred. Continuedwarm, calm weather could produce a spawning movement as early as next week. Storm rontscan hold o the spawning event or as much as three weeks. Fishing patterns all directly relate toprespawn ish behavior.Black bass are the most active ish. They will hold in deep water near the edge o the channel orin the back o the canyon where rock and brush are present. Bass move shallow with dailywarming to seek a nest site. Feeding occurs but nest construction is a higher priority. Hence,many ish will be seen in clear water or near the surace in stained water. They may not strikeaggressively at lures except or a 1-2 hour period usually in the aternoon. During the remaindero the day, especially in cool morning temperatures they will only peck at lures or ignore them. Individuals can be convinced to strike occasionally and there are enough ish visible lake wide toproduce a really un experience. More numbers will be caught next month but now is the time tocatch larger bass. Large males occupying nest sites and nearby emales holding in deeper waterare the prime targets. Bottom-contact plastic lures are preerred but crank baits, spinner baits, andjerk baits all work at times in prespawn conditions.Prespawn striped bass eel warming and tend to move in schools toward current. Places like thedam and power plant intake are getting better with some really good sporadic catches reported inshort bursts already. When a school is nearby most anglers catch ish. Then there is a waitingperiod until the school returns. Mid day has been best but appearance o the large school canhappen any time. Stripers in the backs o canyons move toward the shallows on a daily basis. Still the schools areinactive most o the time and can be ound laying on the bottom. When they move up in thewater column they can quickly be caught trolling. Look in the canyon

Wednesday, March 21st, 2001

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    Water Temp: 53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTMARCH 22,2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3663 Water temperature: 53-58 FA mild, calm night inally allowed the heat gained rom the previous day to be retainedthroughout the night. Surace temperature climbed three degrees rom the previous reading. Warming has begun!This quick spike in temperature has created a bass response that, or lack o a better example,resembles

Wednesday, February 28th, 2001

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    Water Temp: 46-51

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTMARCH 1, 2000BY Wayne GustavesonHome Page: www.wayneswords.comLake Elevation:3664 Water Temperature: 46-51 FBass tournaments occurred almost every weekend during February. Early tournament resultswere meager with less than hal o the teams catching a 12 inch keeper bass, usually largemouth.Finally in the most recent contest 13 o 16 teams entered ish. While ishing or bass remainstough it is gradually improving as day length increases. It seems the chances o catching a ish isnow greater than the chance o not catching one. But it might not be possible to catch two. The spring pattern involves looking in the back o the canyon where brown water meets greenwater especially near brush. Warm aternoons are better than cold mornings especially where ahuge rock ace has a southern exposure to the sun and can collect the aternoon heat and transmitit into the water. Start shallow by tossing (1/8 to 1/4 ounce) sot plastic or hair jigs to shore linerocks, gradually working deeper with a slow bouncing retrieve. I no action try a loat 5-10 eetup rom the jig. This suspends your slow moving bait in a (non threatening) horizontal plane thatcold weather bass and crappie ind appealing. For stripers, turn around and throw to the middleo the canyon instead o the shoreline. Let the bait go to the bottom (30-50 eet) and then work itnear the bottom or slow moving stripers and walleye. Use crayish colors near shore and shadcolors in deeper water.Keep moving and repeating the techniques in the "green water" section o canyon. You caninclude your avorite methods by tossing a crankbait, or slow rolling a spinner bait or lippin

Wednesday, December 13th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 49-52

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTDECEMBER 14, 2000 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3672 Water Temperature: 49-52 FLake level is declining rapidly with the increased need or electrical power generation rom thedam. The low steady state release pattern is over and we can expect the lake to decline more thanit has or the past ew years. It will dip below 3670 by the irst o the year. Cold weather has put all ish species into deep winter patterns. The expected winter striper bitewas small and slow. It is possible to graph a ew scattered striper schools in most lake areas. They remain curious and are willing to bite or bump a bait but ull-blown active eeding has notbeen observed during the past two weeks. The normal pattern is to graph a school, drop the bait or spoon and catch one or two ish. Thenthe school disappears. My eeling is that they rest on the bottom and are very hard to detect onthe graph. Speed reeling a spoon with pauses toward the surace oten causes the school toascend part way in the water column. Then they drit away once more and blend with thebottom. I am sure that a short eeding period happens occasionally, maybe at a certain time everyday. I have not ound active ish during the warm part o the day when I have been out.The best approach would be to troll with down riggers at 50-60 eet. The reaction to speedreeling indicates some ish willing to chase while the main group is not eeding. Fishing anchovieswith consistent chumming would be the next preerred method. I will continue to targetindividual ish or small groups with spoons and white jigs hoping to get a quick catch o 4-5 ishbeore moving on to ind the next bunch. Using the standard trout ice-ishing technique withanchovy bait on a small silver spoon may work.Depth is critical. Targeting 50-60 oot depth strata is the most productive, but resting ish whichmay be started will be as deep as 80

Friday, December 1st, 2000

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    Water Temp: 51-53

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTNOVEMBER 30, 2000By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3673 Water Temperature: 51-53 FWater

Tuesday, November 14th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 57

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTNOVEMBER 14, 2000 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.comLake Elevation: 3675 Water temperature: 55-57 FWeather

    Tips: Jigging spoons

Thursday, October 26th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 64

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTOCTOBER 26, 2000By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.comLake Elevation: 3676 Water Temperature: 64-66 FThis has not been a good week or ishing. Storm ronts, cooling water, changing patterns allhave contributed to inconsistent catching. It is not over or the year. Fishing or stripers, willimprove as temperatures continue to drop. Bass ishing will have one more lurry beore winterdormancy sets in. A bass tournament held this past weekend was quite successul despite wet, cold, windyconditions. Participants caught mostly smallmouth on topwater and plastic grubs. Most broughtin 5 ish limits o bass exceeding 12 inches. The winner caught a ew largemouth with hissmallmouth by ishing topwater lures along a tire breakwater near Wahweap Lodge. This earlymorning surace bite along with deep jigging with sot plastic baits during the day will continue tobe productive as long as temperatures remain in the 60's. Then it will get tougher. Stripers are being orced to change habits by approaching winter weather. Boils are a rareexception now. Stripers still try to move shallow each morning to eed but shad are diicult tomove and becoming harder to ind. Stripers can be consistently caught in deep water accessroutes (travel lanes) between shallow lood plains and deep water. Look or submerged creekchannels with ish traces which can be seen on a graph at dawn each morning. Even when noshallow shad are ound stripers are still looking where shad used to be and will bite or the irsttwo hours each morning. Drop spoons, troll crank baits, throw surace lures between 6-8 am orbest results. Repeat the process in the evening.During mid day stripers move deeper and toward winter eeding grounds. Look in backs o bayswhere water depth is 60-100 eet. Fish anchovies at 60 eet even when bottom depth is muchdeeper. Hungry ish come up to eed while resting ish are deeper. Fast trolling with down riggersor leaded line is eective or dormant ish, particularly near Hite.Winter patterns should be productive in Warm Creek, Navajo, Last Chance, Rock Creek, Oak,Rincon, Halls, Bullrog, Good Hope and Piute Canyon on San Juan. While ish are making this transition rom all to winter patterns they eed more at night thanduring the day. Anchor in 50 eet o water and attract shad with bright light. Then ish anchoviesunder shad school or best success. It seems that channel catish are still actively eeding and are being caught in good numbers upand down lake. Fish bait on the shallow sloping sand bottom or best results.
    City: Page, AZ

Thursday, October 5th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 70-73

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: AKE POWELL FISH REPORTOCTOBER 5, 2000By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3677 Water temperature: 69-71 F
    City: Page, AZ

    Tips: Stripers have moved into normal all habits. Their daily cycle begins and ends searching or shad. Ater spending the night in the submerged creek channel they attempt to drive shadschools rom deep water into a short cove. I they can trap a school in shallow water a 30 minuteto one hour boil period ensues. I they are unsuccessul in trapping shad, which happens most othe time, then individual stripers will chase small groups o shad in open deep water. Look orstripers at the back o the canyon where main channel water depth is 50 eet and ish traces can beseen on the graph. Stripers not actively boiling will come to the top to hit surace lures beore thesun

Thursday, September 28th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 71

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISHING REPORTSEPTEMBER 28, 2000 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3677 Water Temperature: 69-72 FSummer was literally blown away last week with snow, high winds and cold temperatures overmuch o the West. Water temperature dropped rom 78 to 70 during the storm which is thelargest short term temperature drop in recent memory. Fish were understandably conused by therapid changes and are still lethargic. Striped bass which were regularly eeding on the surace have now moved deeper but remain inthe same general area where they were boiling. Stripers are usually ound in the main channel ormain canyon where bottom depth is 40-60 eet. Look on electronics or shad or striper schools bycruising the last third o the canyon. Fish spoons or bait exactly where a school is seen on thegraph. Use a loating marker when a school is marked. The loat will allow visual reerence whenthe boat drits away rom the spot. Don

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Thursday, September 14th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTSEPTEMBER 14, 2000 By: Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3678 M.S.L. Water Temperature: 73-75 FThe lake dropped two eet this past week and now has stabilized again. It should decline veryslowly or the near uture. Piute Farms ramp is unuseable. Antelope Launch Ramp is extremelylow and useable only at the boater

Thursday, September 7th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 75

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report:  By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3679 Water Temperature: 74-77 FGot in the boat this morning and went hunting. Headed toward the dam and then up the channeltoward Antelope Canyon. The early morning colors under a partly cloudy sky were so incredibleit would have been easy to miss the irst splash. The boat glided toward the splash as I loaded myrod tip with a jumpin minnow and aimed just beyond the ripples. The lure hit the water and wasinhaled as it started to swim. The striper missed and then struck again 3 times beore leaving italone. I put the boat just barely on plane and continued slowly up the channel. Every splash wasa striper. Pinpoint casting to each separate rise resulted in a striper slashing at the lure. Moststripers only hit once or twice and very ew were hooked but it was a very enjoyable ishing tripto SEE the ish irst and then try to get in range to catch them. That

Thursday, July 27th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 76-88 F

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTJULY 27, 2000 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3682 Water Temperature: 76-88 F
    City: Page, AZ

    Tips: ************************* STRIPER BOILS ************************The entire lake has early morning surace eeding (striper boils) events happening. It is just amatter o inding out where the boils are and how excited the stripers are to chase shad. Stripersare now catchable on 5 inch surace lures rom Wahweap to Hite.The general lakewide pattern starts as shad begin to orm schools ater a night o randomdistribution. As skies lighten, shad can see one another and orm schools or protection as theyeed on plankton. Each shad tries to get on the outside o the school to eed and then get to theinside o the school when danger threatens. When shad are bunched up by the thousands striperboils may last or hours. With only a hundred shad in one area there is not enough saety innumbers and shad scatter with individuals heading out in all directions. Stripers chase down thesingles with 5-10 stripers in hot pursuit o a ew shad. These small boils only last or a ewseconds but they pop up in the same vicinity time ater timeBig boils are ound rom Nokai to Mikes Canyon in the upper San Juan, and rom Hite to GoodHope. (Caution: strong wind may cause the morning boils to izzle). Smaller boils are oundsomewhere in each canyon and bay. Reports o small boils have come rom Bullrog Bay near thelast gravel island, Hall

Wednesday, July 19th, 2000

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    Water Temp: 76-88 F

    Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

    Report: Lake Elevation: 3682Water Temperature: 76-88 F ***STRIPER BOILS - HITE and SAN JUAN****
    City: Page, AZ

    Tips: Anglers venturing out rom Hite Marina are reporting boiling stripers in both directions. Look or surace eeding stripers at the mouth o the Dirty Devil, main channel near the ColoradoRiver bridge, Hite launch ramp, White, Trachyte, Farleys and as ar downstream as TicabooCanyons. Some o the boils have been staying up 15-30 minutes. Fish are deinitely catchable butvery ew anglers have been seen. Boils are going all day long. I would suggest ishing during thecooler morning and evening hours.