Lake Powell Fishing
Back to Lake Powell again this year for our annual Spring fishing trip. The weather which has been cool for spring in Utah was kind to us for three days and not so kind the other two days of fishing.
The way this is done is to bring a house boat 15 miles up the lake to a good beach, then fish from smaller fishing boats, using the house boat camp as a base. 18 in all went on this trip, sponsored by one of the men who had a part-interest in the houseboat.

Sometimes the adventure was a draw between fishing and photography as the lake became gloriously beautiful at times, particularly when the water was very quiet and reflected the sandstone shore. The high water mark at the top of the light sandstone is 80 feet above the surface of the lake, which was 12 feet higher this year than last.

Sometimes the fishing took us up very narrow long canyons with sheer walls above and 30 feet of water below.

Lake Powell has a 500 ft deep "main channel" where the Colorado River ran before the Glen Canyon dam was constructed, and long arms going back into side canyons. The picture above is of Wsst Canyon which runs south down into Arizona. My fishing buddy and I fished the shore in the photo, at the entrance to West Canyon on Friday and had our very best day of the week.

Plenty of fish from West Canyon on the stringer for fillets to go into our freezers.