Find fish on top and cast to boils
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Upon returning from a week’s vacation, there were a number of exciting fish reports waiting. Striper boils were reported to be much closer to my home port at Wahweap. Normally, large boils require traveling to the San Juan or Good Hope Bay. The reported boils were a short boat ride away at Castle Rock, Warm Creek and Navajo. With great anticipation we loaded up and headed out this morning before dawn.
The sunrise was absolutely beautiful as we crossed Wahweap Bay on perfectly calm water. We saw single fish splashing near Castle Rock but headed uplake looking for a larger fish concentration. As we turned the corner heading to the main channel, the wind came up which prevented us from going to the mouth of Navajo. We fought the wind all the way to Gunsight, then Labyrinth, Face and finally stopped at Gregory Butte. No boils were seen through the white caps. The wind finally quit as we headed back down lake to Labyrinth.
In flat water, we finally saw stripers hitting the surface. These stripers were in wide spread, small pods of 3-6 fish covering a large cove. A fat, healthy striper was caught each time our topwater lures landed near a surfacing fish, but only one fish was caught from each pod with lots of chasing. These were not the large striper boils we were looking for. So we moved on.