02-07-2011, 02:53 PM
I fished Scofield Saturday(2/5) 8am-3pm.
Area: East side, southern most parking area, where you can drive down to the shore.
Ice: 18"+ with 2" of new snow blowing hard all day.
Depth: 4' to 18' most fish were deeper.
Catch: 1 tiger 16" skinny, 5 cutts 10-12" skinny, 30+ chubs 4"-12" fat and healthy.
Bait: small jigheads tipped with crawler.
I could have probably done better for trout, but I was targeting chubs for a Wyoming burbot trip this week. Not hard to see that the chubs are out competing the trout for food. On a good note, I didn't catch nearly as many small chubs as I did last year, so maybe the trout are putting the hurt on the young of this year.
I talked to one other guy who was fishing with his three kids. They had only caught 3 small trout and one chub.
There were some scouts camped in the parking area. Looked like they had a good time. I didn't notice if they caught fish or not. They left before I got back. They did make breakfast smell real good.
As for camping with scouts I think I'd stick to Scofield. Electric may be a little better fishing, but Scofield offers better camping conditions and easier acces to the ice. I fished Electric a couple of weeks ago and getting down to the ice is a project. On getting the scouts into fish, I'd try the dam arm or perhaps the west side. I had very few trout swim by where I fished. The ones that did were cooperative, but small. I caught one trout with a bad eye and messed up gill plate twice. Slow learner. The tiger I caught followed a hooked chub right up into my hole. Got my hook back down quick and caught him too.
Looks like the weather is on your side this week!
Have fun!
IceAndFly
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Area: East side, southern most parking area, where you can drive down to the shore.
Ice: 18"+ with 2" of new snow blowing hard all day.
Depth: 4' to 18' most fish were deeper.
Catch: 1 tiger 16" skinny, 5 cutts 10-12" skinny, 30+ chubs 4"-12" fat and healthy.
Bait: small jigheads tipped with crawler.
I could have probably done better for trout, but I was targeting chubs for a Wyoming burbot trip this week. Not hard to see that the chubs are out competing the trout for food. On a good note, I didn't catch nearly as many small chubs as I did last year, so maybe the trout are putting the hurt on the young of this year.
I talked to one other guy who was fishing with his three kids. They had only caught 3 small trout and one chub.
There were some scouts camped in the parking area. Looked like they had a good time. I didn't notice if they caught fish or not. They left before I got back. They did make breakfast smell real good.
As for camping with scouts I think I'd stick to Scofield. Electric may be a little better fishing, but Scofield offers better camping conditions and easier acces to the ice. I fished Electric a couple of weeks ago and getting down to the ice is a project. On getting the scouts into fish, I'd try the dam arm or perhaps the west side. I had very few trout swim by where I fished. The ones that did were cooperative, but small. I caught one trout with a bad eye and messed up gill plate twice. Slow learner. The tiger I caught followed a hooked chub right up into my hole. Got my hook back down quick and caught him too.
Looks like the weather is on your side this week!
Have fun!
IceAndFly
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