Ririe and Rigby Lake

[Belasko]

Headed to Ririe w/ the faint hope maybe it was frozen. As expected I was disapointed. The whole thing is open water still. However I did get to see several deer. There were 5 groups of deer that I saw in the fields above the res. and some of them were big bucks! From there I headed to Rigby lake figuring it would be frozen. Fortunately it was. There were a couple others out there. 3 guys in a red command post type tent, and then a guy w/ his kids trying to catch something. The guys in the tent said they were in 4 feet of water. I found out later it was more like 3. The others were in 3.5 feet of water. I started out near them and no one was catching. After a bit I moved around searching for deeper water and found some around the 7 ft depth. A few minutes after dropping a line there I noticed a blip on the marcum. seconds later the jigger totter started doing it's thing (great test of it!). About 30 seconds later we had iced a 10" rainbow. This turned out to be the only fish but I did discern some depths for future trips and found the jigger totters live up to the hype. Also the ice is about 6-8" and solid.
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