The Kelley's were a little late hitting the water on 5-31 as Dummy me locked the keys in the truck at Shell station as I went in for Lake Powell stamp.

We motored up to Rock Creek in our normal camping area and set.

It was 5 pm when we decided to test out Tim Kelley's lead on the point right at channel and Rock Creek, Well I marked fish on a nice hump chummed two or three chovies and bam the fight was on. We boated 11 stripers in under 60 min and headed back to camp for dinner.

Smaller and med size fish - no rails.

Friday am up at 5 or so tried Tim's Rock Creek canyon spot no stripers but smallies were willing to eat. After an hour I said lets gas up at the Rope and head to Oak Canyon.

After no ice cream (they were still closed) and $125 in gas off we went. Channel was smooth this am we arrived and started to chum and Maria's bait just got in water and Bam. The fight was on. We fished the large cliff east side of Oak Canyon bay filled live well in 1.5 hours with 30-40 fish only 3 were rails, one was around 5.5. BTW Maria killed Dad 5 fish for every one or two of mine. Your tip on the huge school was right on. Finder showed black from all the echo's in 40-50 ft water all along the cliff.

When tired and out of bait I fillet the fish and found some nice area for dogs to run around.

While heading to the restroom we ran across a large slurp in the oak bay we got close for two or three cast and pulled one real nice and two small ones.

Heading back to the rope we also found another large slurp in channel just past the gravel hill.

In channel along the wall Maria landed two from slurp as dad was running the trolling motor to stay in casting range.

Saturday we headed to Navajo so we would not need to bounce the straits on Sunday.

All the way to the end lots of wood in the water some very big trees. Found camp site and set heard sound of fish and we fished two very large slurps for 1.5 hours 10 fish from the slurps. At the end, both had gotten scared of cranks baits landing so we change to grubs and they did not mind them at all. These were juvenile stripers with good fillets.

Much warmer Saturday night in the canyon from up lake Thursday and Friday.

Thanks Tim and Wayne for the locations to try.

So after two years way we still can find fishing excitement in Lake Powell see ya 7-10 7-16