A few more fishing trips to write about starting on April 27. I got a free day so I decided to head up to Jordanelle and try for some of the monster Brown Trout that start to hit after ice off. I got a late start and got to the rock cliff arm around 9:30 a.m. I hiked down the north side just past all of the dead trees that lie along the shoreline. I put on a drop-shot with a gulp minnow in black shad color. It was tough fishing due to snags but I finally landed a 15 inch rainbow. After that I had the curse of not being able to hook up again. I had around 4 more on but never could get them to the shore. I think I had on to big of a hook, but didn't have any smaller. I had one more hard hit as I was walking back tossing into the trees and it was probably a bass but the curse continued and I did not hook up.

April 29, I just got my boat back again! The carburetor was jammed and kept flooding the engine. So I dragged my dad out to Jordanelle to try the boat out and get a little fishing in. We got to the lake about 8:15 a.m. and launched from the PWC ramp. The boat fired right up and we were off. We headed to the end of the rock cliff arm where the Provo River comes in and tried there. My dad put on the traditional worm and power nugget, while I tried the same drop-shot in black shad color. I had a couple dink bites but nothing in the boat. My dad didn't get a bite. We then tried various spots up and down the rock cliff arm on both sides without getting a bite. We made our way back to the Provo River outlet around noon and I tried drop-shotting a crawler. My dad finally hooked up and the first fish of the day was a sucker. I then hooked up with excitement only to find out that I also had a sucker on. We had continuous sucker bites for around a half hour before we gave up. We hit the area just south of the PWC ramp for a half hour before taking off. It was a sucker of a trip! Ha Ha!!! Then of course after the boat ran perfect all day it had to sputter out on us at the end of the day, making it so I will be weiry taking it on the next trip!

May 4, I am sick of not catching fish so I went somewhere I knew I would not get skunked. The ice is finally off Scofield so I headed up there for an evening trip. I got to the lake at 5:30 p.m. only to find a hurricane going through Scofield. I waited it out in the truck for about a half hour until conditions calmed down. I started out using a black curly tailed jig underneath a bobber. Nothing! I tried using a white foxy jig underneath a bobber and nothing! I then tried using the same black shad drop-shot rig that I used at Jordanelle and got snagged everytime. Finally I used my brain and put on a silver blue fox spinner and started casting it along the shorelines. I immediately started catching fish. I caught 7 fish in the span of about an hour. 5 rainbows, one that came out of the water about 4 ft. man those guys fight hard, then 1 cutthroat, and even a small tiger trout that the DWR planted in Scofield for the first time last fall. It was only about 9 inches long. If I would have used the spinner earlier I'm sure I could have caught a lot more. I had around 12 bites that were not hook ups. Either way it was a good trip and I needed it to help my confidence. A huge storm came in just before dark and the fishing died so I left, and had to drive down Spanish Fork Canyon in pouring rain. I hydroplaned a couple times but I'm still here to tell about it! Scary though!!!