12-22-2009, 04:54 PM
I've caught a bunch of walleyes through the ice at Oneida, but it was back in 1999-2000. Does that count for the $20?? My buddy almost sunk a snowmobile there one time, so I don't think I would plan on driving any machines out there. Walking out onto the ice you should be fine. It was just that one occasion that the ice was goofy and I think it was cuz it had been very warm: lots of melting and the ice had kinda turned to slush. Every other time I have been the ice was just like any other reservoir, nothing like any of these crazy gap stories you hear.
Here's the problem I have with ice fishing Oneida: I drive from Logan/Smithfield up to Preston and through the Narrows and there is this grumpy guy that works for Pacificorp that thinks he is the boss of the whole wide world. On more than one occasion he has denied me from driving any further than the red point campground. One time we had actually made it all the way up to the reservoir and were loading up the sled on our way out onto the ice and he comes bombing up there all pissed off and made us go back down to the river, telling us we were lucky to be able to come up that far. We tried to get him to let us off the hook since we only had ice gear and since we were already up there, but he was having none of it. So we went back down to the river and tried fishing it with ice rods. Luckily the fish were really biting and we had some fun. I even caught a 20" brown swimming a 1/4 oz jig.
Anyways, I look at it as a bit of a gamble to drive that far when I don't know if that turkey is going to let me drive to the rezy or not.
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Here's the problem I have with ice fishing Oneida: I drive from Logan/Smithfield up to Preston and through the Narrows and there is this grumpy guy that works for Pacificorp that thinks he is the boss of the whole wide world. On more than one occasion he has denied me from driving any further than the red point campground. One time we had actually made it all the way up to the reservoir and were loading up the sled on our way out onto the ice and he comes bombing up there all pissed off and made us go back down to the river, telling us we were lucky to be able to come up that far. We tried to get him to let us off the hook since we only had ice gear and since we were already up there, but he was having none of it. So we went back down to the river and tried fishing it with ice rods. Luckily the fish were really biting and we had some fun. I even caught a 20" brown swimming a 1/4 oz jig.
Anyways, I look at it as a bit of a gamble to drive that far when I don't know if that turkey is going to let me drive to the rezy or not.
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