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June 10th Main Lake Water Temp. mid 70s
The Lake elevation is 3786.11
Storage is 188,900 acre ft.
The Main Lake is clear
It was another good week for most species. The water temperature has finally reached the point that they are starting to enter Summer patterns.
Walleye are scattered arond thelake in 15 to 25 feet of water. Pulling 'Crawler Harnesses in 20 to 25 feet of water is starting to work. Also, casting Gulp Minnows in 12 to 15 feet of water on main lake points is another pattern that is starting to produce.
White Bass are still good trolling with Flicker Shad and Wally Divers. They are suspended in schools at about 15 to 20 feet. A lot of them are smaller fish right now
Crappie are fair, at the best. There are still Crappie being caught by trollers out in deeper water. I'm just not sure, maybe they have spawned and just were not doing it in the normal areas or the water was so long reaching the proper temperature that are giving up on this year's spawn, it's anybody's guess, let me know what you think.
Catfish are fair on Chicken Liver and Punch Bait, and Nightcrawlers.
Bass are good. You could say that the Smallmouth were better than good this past weekend. I have been fishing, and following Bass tournaments on Ute Lake for the better part of 40 years and some of the weights that were brought to the scales in this past weekend's Sun Country were really exceptional. The team of Anthony Gallegos and Steven Ortega weighed a 1 day 5 fish limit of 21.5 lbs, and backed up on Sunday with a limit that weighed about 14.5 lbs. for a 2 day, 10 fish total of 36.03 lbs.! I am not sure about Sunday's bag but all 5 of Saturday's bag were Smallmouth!
Sun Country Bass-June 7th & 8th
1st-Anthony Gallegos & Steven Ortega- 36.03 lbs.
2nd-Aaron Brewer & Kris Bosley-24.30 lbs.
3rd-Todd Town & Brad Jameson-22.08 lbs.
Hereford Bass Club will host an open Bass tournament this coming Sunday, June 15th, from 5:30 AM to 1:30 PM. You can enter early here at Ruf-Nec Tackle or at the Marina parking lot before 5:30 Sunday morning.
I have to throw this out there, is Ute Lake becoming a premier Smallmouth fishery? I was fishing tournaments when participants such as Butch Colantonio, Mickey Trousdale, and Fritts Staver would bring 15 lb. limits to the scales. These limits were mainly made up of Largemouth. Not to say that Largemouth are not still present, they are, just not in the numbers that existed 25 years ago. N.M. Game and Fish has a stocking program in place for Ute for Largemouth and I think that it starting to show signs of be some success. I often hear "Why are all of the Smallmouth just 13 1/2"? I guess my point to this is maybe I need to learn to fish for the large Smallmouth because, obviously they are there.
Until Next Week,
TIGHT LINES, GOOD FISHING, AND "MAKE 'EM BITE"!
Ben
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