03-22-2004, 03:48 PM
As of Friday and Saturday the whole north end of the lake is open water. The remaining ice is just slush. We put a boat in Friday evening and again Saturday afternoon. On Saturday we watched an aluminum boat plow through the ice all the way along the edge of the west side.
As far as fishing goes it sucked. We caught one rainbow on Friday while trolling and then one on Saturday. On Saturday's fish we stopped trolling and sat by the west shore in the edge of the slush. I threw out a white foxie jig with a worm to about three feet from the edge and slam, pulled in a nice rainbow. That was the only fish on Saturday. While we were driving home I watched several fish swimming along the open ice edges on the east side. There was only a couple of feet of open water on the east edge where I was seeing fish but they were rising to the surface and I think that's where all the hungry fish are.
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As far as fishing goes it sucked. We caught one rainbow on Friday while trolling and then one on Saturday. On Saturday's fish we stopped trolling and sat by the west shore in the edge of the slush. I threw out a white foxie jig with a worm to about three feet from the edge and slam, pulled in a nice rainbow. That was the only fish on Saturday. While we were driving home I watched several fish swimming along the open ice edges on the east side. There was only a couple of feet of open water on the east edge where I was seeing fish but they were rising to the surface and I think that's where all the hungry fish are.
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