Bill’s Corner with Captain Bill McBurney 9-16-12
Tip of the Week: When hunting bigger stripers and your bait fishing, always fish deeper than the school you are catching from! Tight Lines, Bill
Lake Powell Fishing Report 9-16-12
Bob Fishing Lake Powell 9-15-12 at the Cleaning Station Fly Fishing Stripers on Lake Powell this week and coming 8 weeks will be “excellent”. Scouting for fish is a must and that’s the “Guides Advantage being there on the water alot. Strings are staying close to bait fish in most canyons and birds and animals will point to the area. They are all around right now. Graphing is esssential and so is patience. Once you locate, use a sinking line 150-00 grain with a Read More +
Bill’s Corner 8-05-12
Fish early with heat for top water action in Southern Point of Lake for “boils”. Then graph for baite and jigging. Stripers are boiling big this time of the year. Check out our past gallery http://www.ambassadorguides.com/gallery/photo-gallery/ Capt. Bill
Bill’s Corner – Lake Powell – 7-4-12
Great Season for Walleye on Lake Powell For warm water walleye on Lake Powell, night and early nomrning fish will show up around submerged trees and broken rock in 25′ to 35′ of water. Troll 1/4 ounes crayfish jig to 50′ behind the boat slowly as you grap the bottom for fish stayin around cover. Cut the motor at first notice, open the bale and let our bait fall to to the bottom then work it slowely up and down back to the boat. Walleye will only Read More +
Lake Powell Fishing Report July 4, 2012
Lake Powell Elevation: 3633.30 Water Temp – 74 degrees in the early a.m. by 80 degrees by noon Monsoons: A chance of storms will be in and out starting today. Typically your storms will not produce till the afternoon. If you are houseboating on Lake Powell, have your anchors set 3.5 feet down and wide enough to let the boat shift a bit. A good set anchor will keep you from having issues during any wind with the storms. The Sorros Family June 27, 2012 Visiting Read More +
Lake Powell Fishing Report 5-22-12
Photo caption: Brian Myers from Colorado took some friends fishing in Good Hope Bay. They found fishing to be great for smallmouth bass. Stripers are spawning this week and only being caught at night. That will change as boils are predicted to begin in June. Lake Powell Fish Report May 22 2012 Lake Elevation: 3636 Water Temperature 70-75 F By: Wayne Gustaveson We did a tour of the recent hot spots and found fish holding in the same spots as last week. Read More +
Bill’s Corner 5-20-12
Striper’s not taking the Fly? Think about a different pattern. Try to change the size first or more times than not that’s all you need. If that doesn’t work, then change the patterns. Capt. Bill
Bill’s Corner 4-22-12
Tips for Fly Rod Fishing at Lake Powell When trolling for stripers and everything is dialed in like the fish position on the fish finder, wind speed and fish taking the trolled bait, mark that position on the shore line. Immediately then wind drift back over that area with a fly rod and a full sink line and any shad type fly. Use a fast retrieve back to the boat. It is worth several passes before you resume trolling for the next school of Read More +
Bill’s Corner 4-05-12
STRIPER FISHING In the Spring freshwater Stripers will start staging the holding pattern mostly by school size. If your catching 1 to 2 pound class fish in the backs of canyons either fish deeper or move out the channel then find the cover and try for larger fish. After the larger fish are caught be prepared for the smaller ones to show up again. Captain Bill
Bill’s Corner March 11, 2012
Joe from Oklahoma asked the questions about boating on Lake Powell at the low water times before runoff: My advice was to stick to the channel markers and do not crowd points less than two hundred yards. Venture in slowly to become familiar with your surroundings. State Line Marina is not open yet but the “Cut” has remained open….that’s the good news Tight Lines, Capt. Bill
