Monday, April 03, 2006

March 25 I decided that I was going to go nuts if I didn't start catching some warm water species so I decided to go back to the warm springs on the Jordan River. Crappy weather has continued throughout March making it tough on any warm water angler, and when I say crappy I mean the wettest March since 1983. We have had 16 wet days and the other days weren't sunshine and nice, they were cold and windy bringing in the next storm. Anyway I got to the Jordan River only to find out that they had released the gates from Utah Lake and the river was overflowing. I still tried to fish it anyway don't ask me why! (note to self- DO NOT fish rivers when they have just been flushed with water moving 50,000 gallons per minute, it kind of screws up the fishing!) I didn't give it long til I realized how stupid I was for even trying so I moved to the pumps on the lake to try my luck there. It was windy and very cold so I just threw out a dead minnow hoping that anything would hit. After getting to cold an hour later I had caught nothing. I decided to let the weather warm up and go over to American Fork Boat Harbor and try for bass along the docks. I got there and it was still cold and first cast I threw a curly tailed jig right into an old floating tire. Lost my jig! Did I give up.... unfortunately no. I went back to my truck and rigged up a dropshot with a wave worm in sparkle blue. This lasted about 4 casts and I got hung up in the weeds and lost it. At this point I said to myself, give up. Please give up. So I did! Thats now three trips in a row with nothing to show for it.

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