Tag Archives: Lake Powell Fishing Report
Lake Powell Fishing Guide Report 3-18-13 by Wayne Gustavson
Photo caption: Steve Christensen, Orem UT, caught a 36-inch striper in Lake Powell’s Good Hope Bay while pre-fishing for a bass tournament. His boating partner, TJ Hiatt, is holding the striper in this picture. The fish was not weighed but a fish of this length usually weighs from 17-20 pounds. Stripers have spilled into the main channel. It is time for Mid March Madness, Lake Powell style. In early spring food for all Lake Powell predators is at the annual low point. Predator fish survive Read More +
Lake Powell Fishing by Wayne’s Words 3-14-13
Lake Powell Fish Report – March 13, 2013 Lake Elevation: 3600 Water Temperature 48-57 F By: Wayne Gustaveson http://www.wayneswords.com This weekend will be the very best time to visit Lake Powell so far in 2013 due to the wonderful warm weather that has finally arrived. It seems to have been a very long, cold winter but that is now changing. Lake surface temperature has now climbed above 50 degrees during the day, although it still cools to the high 40s at night. By next week Read More +
Lake Powell 3-10-13
Lake Powell is celebrating its 50th birthday and the timing for anglers couldn’t be better. Lake Powell fishing expert and fish biologist Wayne Gustaveson says the spring and summer of 2013 are shaping up to make for a banner year for catchers and consumers of Bass, Stripers, and Walleye. Gustaveson says the combination of a high water year at Lake Powell in 2011, followed by a relatively low level year with plenty of shad has set the stage for ample catches from both vessel and Read More +
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 +
Lake Powell Fishing Report August 5, 2012
Lake Powell Elevation: 3967.81 Water Temps: 85 The top water action is getting better and better daily and so is the chumming of anchovies. This is going to be the best Fall Fishing in years for fish averaging 3-8 lbs. This is due to the increase in bait buildup over the last decade and the introduction gizzard shad. Plus the opportunity for sume lunker encounters Lake Wide. Best Canyon for fishing I recommend Last Chance and Navajo. My last trip this past week with 5 Read More +
Lake Powell Fishing Report 6-09-12
Wayne’s Words Lake Powell Fishing Report 6-06-12
My weekly fishing trip was one day after a full moon and a big windstorm. I wasn’t expecting much but was pleased to find cooperative smallmouth and striped bass. Stripers were feeding on plankton near the surface at the edge of the brush line. They seemed to be slightly deeper than last week with most hits coming where bottom depth was 25-30 feet. Every time we trolled into shallower water, pesky smallmouth would whack our Lucky Craft Bevy Shad lures. In 2 hours of Read More +
Wayne’s Words May 29, 2012 – Slurps Start
Lake Powell Fish Report – May 29, 2012 Lake Elevation: 3636 Water Temperature 63-70 Striped bass fishing is now perking up. The spawn is over allowing adult stripers to focus on finding food instead of spawning. “Food” is quite small as shad, their primary forage item, are less than an inch long. These tiny shad live very near the surface so stripers skim the surface to effectively feed on their tiny prey. These surface feeding (slurps) events can be readily observed by anglers. Read More +
