jlastofka":1mbx3u5k said:
Potter Water and others interested in fishing Lake Powell:
Check out Wayneswords.com, where the fisheries manager for the lake posts all kinds of good information. They actively want people to catch lots of stripers to help control the fish population in the lake.
There are different places and techniques to use, but one that's pretty easy is to go out in the deeper parts of the lake during the day and search with a fish finder to see groups of fish hanging out about 60 feet down. I use a depth indicating reel to drop a lure down that far for jigging, but there are other ways. It seems like even in the middle of the day when they might not be actively feeding, I can annoy them enough to bite...
Another way is to watch for a striper boil on the surface where the fish are herding the bait for a feeding frenzy. You can throw anything in there and they'll bite.
I also have good luck paddling around in my kayak trolling lures behind.
I'm no expert, but I find it fairly easy to catch fish at Lake Powell using basic lures like Kastmasters and Rapalas, among others.
I think Jody will be there this year, and he knows more about this than I. Maybe he'll chime in with some additions or corrections to my ramblings here.
One other thing, I would strongly recommend putting the new invisible Fluorocarbon line on your reel. I've found it makes a real difference. The hybrid Fluorocarbon coated line is less expensive than the pure stuff and it works great.
I've caught stripers, largemouth and smallmouth bass, panfish and catfish there. By the way, I need someone to teach me how to deal with catfish after they're caught. I haven't learned that part yet.
-Jeff
What Jeff said about reading wayneswords.com is true you can usually find where to, and what to, fish with for the time of the year. Find the fish with your fish finder and fish just above them.
Bait fishing anchovies chum the water with pieces of anchovies and lower your bait just above the fish. Jigging lower the jig down to the fish and jig it up and down. Kastmasters, Walleylures and Bassman special work good for this. Colors silver, silver/blue, silver/black, silver/yellow, silver/chartreuse.
Trolling/long lines Rapalas, Deep Down Husky Jerks, Lucky Craft Pointers, Rattle Traps troll in the 20 to 30 foot range with leaded line. Sometimes I use a spreader bar tie a 1 oz. white or a yellow striper bucktail on one side and raddle trap or a pointer on the other. It looks like one fish chasing another in the water and makes the lures run deeper. Troll at 3 to 5 mph. Colors ghost, white, silver, silver/black, silver/blue, clown seem to work.
Trolling/Downriggers for the fish at 30 to 100 feet, same lures as above. If I see fish suspended I usually troll for them. If they are right on the bottom I jig for them but that just me. I've had times where I was trolling at 100 feet and had my downrigger ball slam right into a vertical cliff. Funny thing about Lake Powell the bottom has as much up and down as above the water does.
If the fish don't appear to be hungry then work on pissing them off.
Hope that gives you a few ideas.
