Big Bass Kingdom at Quail Creek, Utah
Greetings.
It is Russ Bassdozer here. I hope you will enjoy my sharing with
you some bass photos that my partner Jamie Cyphers and I recently
caught in mid-October up to 8 lbs 7 oz at Quail Creek Reservoir,
Utah. Photos may take a few moments to
download.
Big bass fishing was off the hook there then. In
fact, it usually is. There's hardly a time I have been here when
a five pound plus did not come to the boat. A trip a few days
before these photos, without a cameraman, we had a 5.3, a 5.2, a
4.7 and a 4.5 in the boat along with numerous 2 to 4 pounders -
about 8 bass each. A few days after these photos, Jamie had a
6.36 and we had others in the 4 to 5 lb range and below. These
may not be as impressive in certain other states, but they are
large for Utah.
The better bass were consistently on brushy
underwater points or ledge edges extending into 15-35 feet of
water. Smaller fish were shallower or shoreline-oriented in the
same areas. There's really no one section of the lake that
produces better. It's all productive. All bass during these trips
were caught with:
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Yamamoto Senkos (colors 913, 918) rigged on Mojo
Rockhopper rigs
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The recently innovated Hawaii
rig using Mojo
Pineapple sinkers with Yamamoto Hula grubs (colors 204, 323).
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All Rockhopper rigs and Hawaii rigs were smeared
heavily in MegaStrike fish attractant gel, not just the soft
baits but the sinkers, leader lines and other rig components were
smeared in MegaStrike.
These three products, Yamamoto soft baits, Mojo
sinkers, MegaStrike gel are best of breed in their respective
product category. They excel singularly used by themselves but
become three times as effective for me when used together.
A bit more about Quail Creek, located between
Hurricane and St. George, Utah, is (as I have been told) that the
Utah state catch/release largemouth record came out of Quail and
the Utah state crappie record was landed there this summer, plus
it is a world-known rainbow trout fishery. It's a small, deep
reservoir, usually calm quiet water and the background scenery is
breathtakingly beautiful. The largemouth in there were originally
stocked from Lake Powell. There are relatively few bass caught
over 2-3 pounds in Lake Powell. Obviously they grow bigger in
Quail than they do in Powell. In fact, you could say Quail Creek
is the big bass kingdom of this region. Click here to view a map
of Quail Creek.
A bit more about my partner Jamie Cyphers, it is
fair to say he ranks as one of the top fifty pros within the
Western states of Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Arizona. A dutiful
and devoted dad and husband for his wife and son, Jamie doesn't
always get to practice for or participate in every regional pro
event. Yet he's reliable to for a top fifty finish in any pro
event (with an approx. 125-175 boat field).
Thank you kindly for letting me share our photos
with you.
Your friend,
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