Caught some amazing perch away from everyone. The one perch actually took both poles a jigging rap and a ripping rap tipped with perch what a fiasco. 30 feet of water fishing bottom. 7 inches of ice started with only lures.
Nicely done!!! I was just talking about finding jumbo perch. I’ve been a lot happier with Hyrum this year as most perch I’ve caught so far have been 7.5 - 10.5" instead of the 5-6" i caught last year. Your perch could have eaten some of those for lunch. You should have some tasty eats. Congrats!
Nice haul, guess it’s time to make a run up that way. Thanks for the report
Nice! I found some of those yesterday as well. Way to go on the brown. I don’t think I have ever caught a brown through the ice.
That’s some fat perch, congrats.
It’s good to see some size. Any sign of the walleye while you were out away from the crowds?
Very impressive!
Big snow pack=high spring/summer water levels=submerged weed beds=excellent spawn=lots of baby perch as food=big perch.
Hang on if one of those smallies grab your bait!
Pray for another good snow pack.
I was actually praying for walleye until those perch started banging the jigging rap and the ripping rap. The jigging rap caught most of the fish. A lot of the fish were spitting up baby perch.
I would love to catch some smallies and walleye
Some Very nice fish! Great job. What was the best bite time?
Heavy cloud cover is the best I can answer that question I was there from 9 till 11 AM after working all night.
I chase walleye through the ice, and so far Deer creek is the only placed I have iced walleye in Utah. A couple of weeks ago I did ice an eye in Wyoming on Sulfur Creek reservoir. I have tried starvation unsuccessfully to ice walleye. I have not tried ice fishing Willard bay or Utah lake for eyes. I will be going out in the morning to Echo. I too work graveyard shifts and go fishing afterwards. Hopefully, I will ice an eye or at least find a nice batch of their cousins like you did.
Gabe