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Thursday, May 9th, 2002

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      Water Temp: 58

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTMay 9, 2002 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3645 Water Temperature: 58-64 FLake level continues to all with outlow more than doubling inlowing water. It is not as cold atnight which allows some o the heat gained during the day to be retained over night. Fish arereally enjoying the warming trend with some o the best catching o the season happening rightnow. Bass ishing is really heating up with smallmouth being taken virtually everywhere on the lake.Main channel rocks with rough edges and steep, quick drops seem to be the best habitat type. Bass are eating crayish and sot plastic grubs may be the best crustacean imitation. But don

Thursday, May 2nd, 2002

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      Water Temp: 56

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTMay 2, 2002 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3645 Water Temperature: 56-65 F
      City: Page, AZ

      Tips: Spring weather alternates between hot and calm ollowed by cold and windy. Fish reallyrespond to hot and then get blow away by windy conditions. The ish activity cycle is reallypredictable since it has be replayed 3 times in the past 3 weeks. Winds cool the lake suracetemperature to 56 and ish quit biting. Then as soon as it calms down surace temperature popsback above 60 and ish start biting all over again.

Thursday, April 25th, 2002

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      Water Temp: 57

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTApril 25, 2002 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3646 Water Temperature: 56-65 F
      City: Phoenix

Thursday, March 28th, 2002

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      Water Temp: 50

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTMarch 28, 2002 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3647.9 Water Temperature: 50-57 FLake surace temperature clicked up another notch to 50 irst thing in the morning. Later in theday in the back o the canyon where water is cloudy the warmest water may be as high as 57. Surace temperature tests a thin, transient water layer and the best indicator o how ish mayrespond is the cold 50 degree mark. More warming is needed to move cold-blooded ish rom theslow category into a moderate activity category. But that warming is coming and here is what toexpect this week. Largemouth bass need 55 degree water and smallmouth 60 degrees beore turning on. Bothspecies will move to the warmest water possible. Follow the thermometer to ind bass. Once that55-plus degree water is ound look or cover. Largemouth bass will bask in shallow water near orin a bush while smallmouth will be anywhere they can ind broken rock near a deep water escaperoute. Seeing bass does not insure catching. Bass move shallow to warm their body and then eatater the metabolism increases. Basking ish need security and will oten be in a conined space. I a boulder-sized rock is seen near a steep cli ace it may be more productive to cast betweenthe rock and the cli ace instead o in ront o a rock. For early season bass probe cracks withplastic jigs, cast behind a bush hugging a wall, roll a spinner bait through cover to ind a willingbass.Walleye are nearing the end o their spawning period and will soon resume normal eedingactivity. Mid April will provide better walleye catching opportunities. Striped bass eel the temperature increase and respond by moving to current. There has been asteady improvement in striper catch rate at the dam and power plant intake. Most anglers cancatch a ew ish (less than 10) while dunking bait near the dam or driting the wall near the intakeupstream rom Antelope Point ramp. Catching is very spotty. A moving striper school willprovide a lurry o quick catches, then action dies as the school moves to another location. Patient waiting is demanded or success. No certain time o day has proven to better thananother. School movement is random and catching is just as sporadic. Overall ishing is still slow but more warming happens each day bringing good ishing that muchcloser.
      City: Phoenix

Thursday, November 22nd, 2001

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      Water Temp: 59

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTNovember 22, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3660 Water Temperature: 57- 61 FWater temperatures have slipped into the 50's marking the end o good smallmouth ishing or theyear. Bass can still be caught but ishing is tougher. Striped bass will now go deep and travel lessactually making them easier to ind and thereore, catch. These conditions will prevail or theremainder o November and December. This will be the last regular ish report or the year. Updates will be given as new inormation is obtained and disseminated on the Wayneswords.comwebsite. Look there or winter ishing updates, speciically the Anglers Corner and Bulletin boardpages. Striped bass continue to move but are easy to discern on electronics. They are seen as anelliptical dense mass usually just o the bottom. Winter eeding grounds will have numerousschools in the same proximity detectable or 100 yards or more. Stripers ound less than 60 eetdeep are easiest to catch but as winter settles in stripers may be seen at 100 eet or more. Fishwith spoons, jigs or anchovy bait while maintaining position directly over the school. Mark thelocation with a loating marker and chum to draw ish o the bottom and to excite the school. Ahooked ish oten draws the rest o the school o the bottom and causes a quick lurry o activity. Let the irst hooked ish swim deep making sure there is another bait in the water beore the irstish is landed. All canyons rom Good Hope Bay to Hite and Zahn Bay to Copper Canyon oer good potentialor catching wintering striped bass. In the remainder o the lake, graph the backs o canyonswhere bottom depth is 50-70 eet or resting schools. Warm Creek, Gunsight and Padre areconsistent winter striped bass producers. Once detected a striper school has to be

Thursday, November 15th, 2001

  • Kane County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTNovember 15, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3661 Water Temperature: 60-63 FSampled ish populations with gill nets this week in the San Juan. We ound striped bass insurprisingly great condition but in small numbers. Physical condition o striped bass exceeded thatound at any other location on the lake. Gill nets do not discriminate between strong and weakish - they catch all that swim by. The ration o at to thin ish in Piute Canyon and bay was 8 atto 2 thin. There was a report o boiling stripers last weekend and a large school o stripers in Piute Canyondelighting anchovy isherman parked on shore. But when we were there the school o ish hadmoved out. That may account or the high ratio o healthy ish. Stripers continue to move in andout o canyons over the entire lake. They are extremely easy to catch when the large school isound but impossible to catch i the school is not in your canyon. Plan on making lots o quickshort stops when searching, graphing and spooning or the striper school in the mid and upperlake areas (Rainbow Bridge to Hite).At Warm Creek, Gunsight and Padre and Dry Rock stripers remain in the backs o the canyonswhere bottom depth is 50-70 eet. They were suspended about 20 eet o the bottom last weekbut are now ound right on the bottom. Use anchovy chum to lit and separate the school romthe bottom and then use bait, spoons or white jigs to catch the recently activated schoolingstripers. I the school returns to the bottom then use more chum to bring them up once more. There are occasional days when lower lake ish are dormant but on most days good catches arestill the norm. The most predictable striper catching will be done at Wahweap this week. Smallmouth bass were active on rocky points in the San Juan arm. Hopping rom point to pointusing sot plastic jigs was a good way to pinpoint areas where bass were congregated. It wascommon to ish our points and catch only one or no ish only to ind the ith point harboredmany aggressive bass and sunish. Most ish were 15-20 eet deep. Pay attention to directionalexposure o the point when trying to duplicate a good catch. Bass are aligning themselves to takeadvantage o the moving sun and remain in the warmest position possible. That prime locationcan be predicted by paying attention to detail and used to the angler

Thursday, November 8th, 2001

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      Water Temp: 63

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report:  By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3661 Water Temperature: 61-63 FLingering warm weather has let ish trapped in the transition between all and winter. Bothsmallmouth bass and stripers remain active but neither are providing consistent action or anglers. Fishing now is similar to early spring where storm ronts slow ishing only to have it heat up againa short time later. Gradually declining water temperatures have changed smallmouth eeding behavior and the waythey attack lures. Sot plastic baits that are always the avored bait are more eective now iaccompanied by an attractant lash. It seems sluggish bass are more curious about movement ithe bait swims steadily. Spinner baits, (saety pin and in-line spinners) especially in the smallersizes were more eective in Good Hope Bay than plain sot plastic jigs with breezy wind rilingthe water. Dead calm periods made ishing tough with all baits. There were short periods, usuallyin the aternoon, when standard sot plastic grubs worked well. When bass are reacting normally,ish jigs in a bottom-hopping retrieve. I there is no response to the hopping retrieve then swimthe bait very slowly along the bottom. Bass are eating both crayish and other ish. Thoseselecting crayish will respond to the hopping motion while those looking or a ish meal willpreer a steadily swimming bait. Striped bass are migrating in and out o canyons. They remain in a canyon or a day or two andthen move on. When located the school will likely be laying on the bottom and be diicult todetect on electronics. In Good Hope shad size was large. There were no 2-3 inch shad ound.Many 5-7 inch shad were evenly dispersed around Red Canyon and Blue Notch. Most shad weretoo big or small stripers to eat and certainly too elusive or thin stripers to catch. A marked distinction was ound among stripers with a small number that were quick, at andstrong. These stripers were able to boil and catch any shad. They responded to surace lures andreaction spoons jigged quickly o the bottom. Small boils were seen at irst light on somemornings. Ater that at ish were grouped at 50-70 eet near shad holding locations. They weredetectable on the graph but would not always respond.The remaining stripers were not as healthy and unable to catch big shad. These stripers could becaught on bait particularly at night. For eective night ishing, anchor the boat (ore and at) in70-80 eet o water at dusk and place a light in or above the water to attract plankton and inallyshad. When shad come, stripers will ollow. This may take an hour but it is a unique andinteresting experience to watch plankton and shad gather in response to the light. Fish bait underthe shad or quick ishing. Keep all stripers caught but only illet those that appear normal. Anobviously skinny ish is not good table are and should be recycled. Downlake stripers are still located in Warm Creek, Gunsight and Dry Rock Creek and providegood catches on anchovy bait most days.
      City: Page, AZ

Thursday, November 1st, 2001

  • Kane County
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      Water Temp: 62

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTNovember 1, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3662 Water Temperature: 62-64 F
      City: Page, AZ

      Tips: It

Thursday, October 25th, 2001

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      Water Temp: 64

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTOctober 25, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3662 Water Temperature: 64-67 F ****** WARM CREEK HOT FOR STRIPERS****** Water temperature is 64 degrees which is the preerred temperature or striped bass. I stripers could choose any comort zone this would be it. They are proving that in Warm Creek right now.Starting at the mouth o Crosby Canyon stripers are present in many large and scattered schools.Most ish are graphed near the bottom but many are mid depth and some are shallow. Schoolsare easy to detect on electronics due to wide separation rom the bottom. Schools stretch romthe shoreline opposite Crosby Canyon to Wagon Box Draw (next canyon upstream on the right). They are ound at bottom depth beginning at 70 eet and continue all they way to bottom depth o48 eet. It is possible to anchor just about anywhere in this area, chum and catch stripers in largenumbers. Those without a ish inder can catch ish by inding the mouth o Crosby Canyon and proceedingdirectly east to the opposite shore where a long sandy point protrudes into Warm Creek. Anchorapproximately 100 yards o the sandy point, chum and catch ish. There should be other boats inthe area so it will be possible to locate hot spots and schools by watching other boats. Fish can becaught on the bottom but it is aster once the irst ish is caught to just throw a 30-40 oot castand let the bait swing back under the boat. Hold it there or a ew minutes and then reel veryslowly to keep the line tight making it easier to detect bites. Remember to use a low visibility,small diameter leader to prevent line shy stripers rom avoiding your bait. Striper ishing has slowed at Hite due to a loating algae bloom that has clouded the water. Motor downstream until the algae disappears beore ishing. Algae should be gone in a week ortwo. Bullrog has some stripers hitting in the very back o Bullrog Bay and Halls Creek. Thestriper ishing is still good near Piute Canyon on the San Juan. Wahweap is the place to be orstriper ishing this week. Warm Creek, Gunsight, Padre and Dry Rock Creek are excellent striperspots. Smallmouth bass ishing is still good in clear water. Bass are not as active as they were a weekago and ishing will continue to slow with dropping water temperature. Bass anglers can still indcooperative bass as long as temperatures are in the 60's. They are still hitting topwater lures earlyin the morning and tubes, grubs and spoons during the day. Target main channel rocky structureespecially where two habitat types join. Large bays like Good Hope, Rincon, and Neskahi may bethe very best smallmouth ishing spots. Bonus walleye, catish and bluegill will be encountered while ishing or stripers and smallmouth.
      City: Page, AZ

Wednesday, October 10th, 2001

  • Kane County
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      Water Temp: 72

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTOctober 11, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3663 Water Temperature: 71 - 74 FA major weather change with cool night time temperatures has caused lake surace temperaturesto begin the quick slide into winter. The next two weeks will be the magic time when watertemperatures will be in the 60's. Black bass are stimulated by the temperature drop to eat as muchas possible beore cold weather shuts down their metabolism. Stripers will continue to eed muchlonger than bass. Expect striper ishing to remain good through December. Smallmouth bass will behave much like they do in the springtime. They will be ound on the deepend o the same rocky points, shoals and rees. Plastic grubs and tubes will be the bait o choice. Bounce the grubs on the bottom at 15-30 eet or best results. I bouncing doesn

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2001

  • Kane County
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      Water Temp: 75

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTOctober 4, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3664 Water Temperature: 73-77 FThe September ull moon caused a striper ishing slowdown at Hite and upper San Juan. Expectthe same results with bright nights this week. Do not expect striper boils especially early in themorning. There may be some mid morning or evening surace activity but night eeding precludesmost early morning topwater opportunities. The good news is that stripers are hungry andstationary. They are very susceptible to anchovy bait and huge catches are possible lake wide.Use the graph, anchovies and the anchor or best success. Adult ish are holding near the bottomwhile yearlings are cruising in the upper 20 eet looking or plankton. Fish both strata whileanchored trying to get a striper school started. Ater the irst bite watch the graph, raise andlower the bait to correspond to depth o ish observed swimming under the boat. Full moon otencauses ish to hit gently. Keep the bait moving slowly so that line is constantly tight and thelightest hit can be detected. An 8-pound test luorocarbon (low visibility) leader will increasecatch rate o inicky stripers. Locations that have produced stripers well recently include Piute Canyon and Neskahi Bay on theSan Juan. This may be the best striper spot on Lake Powell. Other spots include: Warm Creek east shore opposite the mouth o Crosby Canyon. Start on the east shore in shallowwater and head toward Crosby Canyon. Stay on the 55-65 oot contour o the irst quick drop oor best results. Don

Wednesday, September 26th, 2001

  • Kane County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTSeptember 27, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3665 Water Temperature: 75-79 FStriped bass ishing has slowed but smallmouth bass ishing is as HOT as the late summerweather.Bass are very cooperative over most o the lake. I ished Good Hope Bay on 9-25-01 in themiddle o the day and caught smallmouth at a rate o 10 ish per hour. A single tail sot-plasticgrub on a 3/8 ounce lead head worked great. Eliminate unproductive water by concentrating onthe EDGE o structure. Fish the spot where the rock slide joins the cli ace, or the edge o a reewhere it alls into deep water, or the spot where two habitat types meet or a rough spot on asmooth shore. Survey a shoreline rom the distance and pick out spots where habitat typeschange or other dissimilarities tip o bass holding areas. Target these spots or ast bass ishing. The huge rockslides lining both sides o the bay in lower Good Hope were alive with smallmouth. Drit parallel to shore and drop the grub down to the visibility limit. That is the spot where therocks or bottom substrate disappear into blue nothingness. Let the grub hit bottom directly underthe boat. Jig it up and down a ew times IF the ish lets it go all the way to the bottom beorestriking. Keep your six ish limit o smallmouth bass and enjoy a great ish dinner in camp. Remember the 20 ish limit does not go into eect until 2002. Stripers were

Thursday, September 20th, 2001

  • Kane County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTSeptember 20, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3665 Water Temperature: 75-79 FJust returned rom a sampling trip to the San Juan so this report will eature uplake ishing butwill still be applicable to the lake in general. We ound good numbers o green sunish (orage orother ish) but very ew shad. As a general statement, most game ish are in the backs o canyonsand coves and not inhabiting the main channel. The exception to that is Hite and upper San Juanwhere shad are abundant and stripers are ound in the main channel. The lack o shad isimportant, in that, when shad are located ishing will be excellent in that particular spot. Findshad - stay close to them and catch ish. We worked and ished Piute/Neskahi Bay. Striper ishing is AWESOME! We ound shad in PiuteCanyon and in the small coves and cuts just upstream rom and on the same side as NeskahiCanyon. On the morning o 9-19-01 stripers were occasionally suracing (slurping) in open waterand along the shoreline. Casting surace lures near points and across coves near slurps producedstripers on almost every cast or most o the morning. When topwater slowed a spoon droppedto the bottom at about 45 eet got them going again. We caught 50 stripers in two hours. We onlyished the coves upstream rom Neskahi (didn

Wednesday, September 12th, 2001

  • Kane County
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      Water Temp: 76

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTSeptember 13, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3665 Water Temperature: 74-78 FLake surace temperature has cooled a ew degrees. This marks the beginning o the Fall eedingspree. We are still a week or two away rom great bass ishing but stripers are busting the suraceat Hite and eeding deep in the remainder o the lake. Hite is hot again or boils all the way rom the marina to Good Hope Bay. The morning boils areairly consistent. Expect to see some boiling activity on 2 out o 3 mornings with a repeatperormance in the early evening. The upper San Juan has a ew morning striper boils near Nokai and Copper but ish are stacked inhuge schools in Piute Canyon and in the main channel rom Nokai to Zahn Bay. Graph the backo Piute canyon or the channel near Nokai and then ish bait or spoons to catch all the ish you cancarry.Some boils (really just slurps) were seen at Bullrog, Halls Creek, Dry Rock Creek, Padre,Gunsight, Navajo and Cottonwood Wash in Warm Creek. Look in the back o the canyons wherebottom depth is 40-60 eet early in the morning. Check every splash by throwing a surace lureinto the splash ripples, ollowed immediately by a jigging spoon. Let the spoon go all the way tothe bottom and then jig it briskly in long sweeps throughout the lower hal o the water column(30-60 eet). It may take a while to realize that when the spoon doesn

Wednesday, September 5th, 2001

  • Kane County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTSeptember 6, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3665 Water Temperature: 77-80 FFishing was slow on the last big summer weekend with lots o boat traic, ull moon and warmwater. It will take signiicant night time cooling to get Fall ishing jump started but the darkeningmoon will help get ish pointed in the right direction. With bright moon and cloudless nights morning ishing is slow. Late aternoon is much moreproductive or stripers and smallmouth. The aternoon/evening eeding period will prevail oranother week. Then the next two weeks in September may be the peak o Fall ishing.Stripers are deep! Hite and the San Juan continue to be the most consistent ishing spots butaternoon ishing lakewide is characterized by small yearling stripers being suspended in the watercolumn in the upper 30 eet. The bigger ish are deeper - sometimes down to 80-90 eet. Duringthe majority o the daylight period it is best to use anchovy bait and employ serious chummingtechniques to get and keep stripers going. Stripers can be graphed in deep slots (creek channels)that are very near shallow water. Back ends o slot canyons are great spots where the boat can bepositioned over deep water with shallow water within a short cast on either side o the boat. Fishbait in the deep slot during the day and reaction spoons and surace lures on the shallow edgesduring twilight periods. Plain slick rock canyons are not as productive as canyons with rockypoints near deep water. Any canyon where shad are seen is worth ishing. At Hite the most productive spots are in 2-mile and 4-mile canyons and the main channelbetween. Spoon ishing is most eective but an occasional boil is encountered and anchovies willwork as well. On the San Juan there are many stripers stacked in Deep and Piute canyons and inZahn Bay rom Donkey Island to Nokai Canyon. Catch ish with your choice o methods in theselocations.Smallmouth are in clear, deep main channel water where rocky structure alls quickly into deepwater with 25-35 eet depths being most productive. Look or ootball size rock (or larger)where crayish may ind a place to hide during daylight hours. In twilight periods topwater baitsare the preerred technique especially near Hite, upper San Juan and any other location whereshad are present. Bass ishing will get dramatically better during the last hal o September. Catish are regularly caught both day and night with bait ished on the bottom. Catish requentareas where stripers have been recently chummed or where houseboats have regularly parked. Sot odorous baits on a size 2-4 hook and a light weight are most eective.
      City: Page, AZ

Wednesday, August 29th, 2001

  • Kane County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTAugust 30, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3666 Water Temperature: 77-80 FSummer is hanging on with seasonally warm air temperatures keeping the water warm andholding ish deep. Labor Day weekend will ind smallmouth bass and stripers in deep water. Sorry, but there will be no (or very ew) striper boils with warm water and a bright ull moonduring the busy weekend. Catch stripers by ishing early and late with jigging spoons or anchovy bait. Stripers remain inareas where they have been caught in July and August. Return to areas o recent success. Therehave been no major ish movements with most schools very near eeding spots that have beenused all summer long. One important dierence is the decrease in shad numbers which hasprompted more stripers to eed on bait. Look or suspended stripers airly shallow in the watercolumn (30-40 eet) that are susceptible to anchovies much like they are in the spring time. There has been a resurgence o striper catching at the dam on the west side at the second andthird barricade rom the wall. Some days yearling stripers are widespread but each day theavored spot near the wall produces 30-50 ish or the lucky boater tied in that spot. The key is towatch the graph and raise and lower the one-inch anchovy chunk to match depth o ish passingunder the boat. This pattern may be repeatable at Moki Wall near Bullrog and other steep walllocations that are historically good or catching stripers in the spring. Best locations or bait ishing are the dam, Padre Canyon wall jutting into Padre bay, Last Chancelast canyon on right, West Canyon walls where bottom depth is 55 eet. In the Bullrog area trollalong the main channel cli walls until catching a striper then ish with bait. Main channel cliareas 1-3 miles downstream rom Halls and near Forgotten Canyon are good starting points. AtHite ish in the main channel between buoys 132 and 134 with spoons or troll lures until indingish then use jigging spoons. The San Juan is overcrowded with striped bass ready to hit bait. Lots o ish at 40-55 eet in Deep Canyon, back o Piute Canyon and rom Zahn Bay to CopperCanyon. The Escalante had very little striper action at last report. Smallmouth are anxious to hit topwater lures very early in the morning and longer in shaded areaswhere sunrise is delayed by the shadow o the walls. In ull light bass go deep, 25-40 eet. Getdown with plastic grubs, tubes and bounce lures o the bottom or best results. Main channelclear water is better than stained water in the backs o canyons. Smallmouth like to move up anddown rather than long lateral distances to ind ood. They preer to eed by sight instead o smellso they are more oten ound in clear water. Catish are really active at dusk and can be ound on most gently sloping sandy beaches wherehouseboats consistently park. Use sot smelly baits like chicken liver or table scraps on a hookwith a light or no weight in 8-12 eet o water right behind the boat.
      City: Page, AZ

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2001

  • Kane County
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      Water Temp: 77

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTAugust 23, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3667 Water Temperature: 77-80 F
      City: Page, AZ

      Tips: Ater a ew weeks o generalized surace eeding activity shad numbers have declined but moreimportantly orage ish have learned to avoid stripers. Boils have decreased in number as striperschools need to work harder to drive shad to the surace or trap them in the back o a cove. Boilsstill occur but on an irregular basis. Stripers ind a school o deep shad and attempt to drive themto a vulnerable eeding ground. When stripers are successul a memorable boil ensues. Theeeding experience is oten not repeatable the next day. Now anglers have to be a little bit luckyto ind stripers on top. The best time to look or surace action is still during the irst 3 hours o daylight. The boil is justas likely to occur at 8:30 AM as 5 AM.. This week boils were reported in the backs o canyonsadjoining Padre Bay, at Castle Creek on the San Juan, and at Trachyte, Farleys, and North Washin the Hite area. With shad becoming more scarce the anchovy catch is increasing. Fish anchovies at 30-40 eet atthe mouth o Antelope canyon in the main channel, shaded walls on the point o Padre Canyonjutting out into Padre Bay (Padre canyon side o butte separating Padre rom Kane Creek), onemile downstream rom Halls Creek on the walls o the main channel, and cli walls near themouth o Forgotten Canyon. The San Juan has uncountable numbers o stripers to be had inDeep Canyon, Piute Canyon, steep rockslide between Cha Canyon and Pinnacle Rock, islandupstream and on the opposite side o the bay rom Neskahi Canyon. Some ish are declining in health. Catching them is enough o an energy drain that they cannotreturn to depth. KEEP ALL STRIPERS. Fillet the healthy ones and properly dispose o thosetoo thin to illet. Do not leave them loating on the surace. Preerred method o disposal is at aish cleaning station. Bass ishing is good with a

Thursday, August 16th, 2001

  • Kane County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTAugust 16, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3668 Water Temperature: 78-83 F
      City: Page, AZ

      Tips: Lake Powell stripers are ready, willing and eager to be caught. School sized 1 to 2.5pound ish are eeding actively in the warm water which takes a lot energy. Shad are not availablein the quantities stripers would like to consume leaving stripers unsatisied and ready to eatanytime. Stripers are coming shallow every morning looking or shad and crayish. The secret tocatching them is simply being in the right place. The generic description o

Wednesday, August 8th, 2001

  • Kane County
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      Water Temp: 78

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTAugust 9, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3668 Water Temperature: 78-83 FBoils ceased lakewide on August 3, 2001. Similar events occurred last year during the ull moonwhich has just passed. With the moon darkening boils will start up once more. Last year boilsstarted at Hite within a week ater the shut down. Down lake it took two weeks or suraceaction to resume.
      City: Page, AZ

Wednesday, August 1st, 2001

  • Kane County
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      Water Temp: 79

      Water Clarity: Clear (4+ foot visibility)

      Report: LAKE POWELL FISH REPORTAugust 2, 2001 By Wayne Gustaveson Home Page: www.wayneswords.com Lake Elevation: 3669 Water Temperature: 78-83 FStripers are still boiling all day long at Hite. In the rest o the lake, gangs o 10-25 stripers arehitting the surace or the irst two hours in the morning and again just beore dark. Hite stripers are boiling in the main channel and most o the canyons rom the Dirty Devil anddown as ar as Red Canyon. Some sustained 45 minute boils occur along with the regular 5-10minute boils which are most prominent. The only drawback is persistent wind beginning about 10am that riles the surace enough to mask boils. As soon as the wind calms stripers can again seeshad and boils start all over again. Stripers weigh 2-5 pounds and will hit ull size surace stickbaits, shallow running crank baits and spoons. Hite is the place to be or topwater stripers thisweek. This action is the stu ishing videos are made o and you have the opportunity to star inyour own show at Hite this week. These ish are great eating. Keep them all.Elsewhere on Lake Powell surace action exists but it really can