Ice was 3-4 inches by the dam.
We fished 27 feet of water and iced over 80 fish between myself, bassackward and our buddy Corey.
What a blast. They wouldn’t take meal worms as steadily, the hot ticket was a genz worm with half a gulp minnow in smelt on it. I caught 8 fish to everyone elses single fish using this method.
I met a BFT member on the ice but I forget his name. Maybe he will chime in here?
We saw you out on the ice when we walked across the dam, we were there on T day and we iced two then…
So youre second…NYUK…NYUK…NYUK…
We were the other 3 man crew on the ice. My son, Bro-in-law (Widastick), and myself hit the ice at sun up and fished until about 11:45am or so. Had to get back for the “Big Game”. [;)] We iced around 30 or so and kept a few that we ate that night. It was decent fishing while we were there… we had fish on the finders about the whole time. Here are a few pics…
Early morning…
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We forgot the ice cleats, but were able to get around pretty well even though it looks slicker than snot.
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My son Cole had the early “Hot Spot”… I think he caught 5 or 6 before I caught my first. He was all smiles…
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And here is Widastick with CBR and Bassackward behind him…
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Widastick with a nice one…
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And here’s one with a little color…
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Overall… we had a great time… We would have liked to stay all day but had to get back to watch the Cougars put a whoopin’ on the Utes!!! [sly]
CBR and Bassackward… it was nice to meet you guys. Sure looked like you were slayin’ em. How long did you guys fish?
Laters,
CDragon
We stayed until 3 PM. It was good meeting you.
When we went to the very middle of the lake we found more consistent 13-14 inch fish and they were biting even more regularly.
Too bad about the Utes losing the game. I bet you were happy about BYU’s win.
Scofield on next sunday anyone? It’s my annual bday fishing trip next Sunday.
I iced tigers, brook, cutt, bows, and albino’s today, but nothing over 13". I’m itching for some bigguns now. 160 mile round trip, and no good fish through the ice to show for it
Here is the full report.
I got up at 4:00 AM, took a super-fast shower, added 5 layers of clothes and hopped in the car with visions of hard water, beer, friends and the oh so sexy looking Tiger Trout.
I arrived to the meeting spot and hopped in bassackwards’ vehicle to find one of our buddies flaked out on a fishing trip, again. Little John, you are fired. That is ok, because Mike and Corey were there and both absolutely amped for our annual first ice fishing trip of the year.
We arrived to the lake pre sun up, 6:45 AM to find Cdragon there with a buddy testing the ice. We joined them on the ice to see what the story was. Was it thick enough? 2 inches there. It wasn’t looking good for an early venture on the ice. 2 inches is safe for light packed anglers, but not in the dark, so we went back to the car and drove to Cleveland and Electric to see how they looked. Cleveland had a lot of open water and E-lake was completely ice free. So we made our way back to Huntington.
We got there and decided we would try down by the dam because of how quick the drop off was.
Cdragon was walking up the ramp from venturing down by where we planned to try, we asked and he smiled, “the ice is 3-4 inches thick”. IT WAS ON! We got our stuff and made our way to the ice.
As we were walking along the shallow shoreline we were scaring fish everywhere we went. Loads of little minnows and tigers cruising the shallows, and the ice was crystal clear. It was almost like walking on water, oh wait, it was walking on water. Good thing we all have a Jesus complex. Walking on water like told in the bible… that one book.
So I drilled some holes and put the sonar in, 27 feet of water and loads of fish cruising through.
I dropped my lure down and with in 5 minutes iced the first fish. Boy, I forgot how pretty tiger trout were, especially this time of year with the “mock spawn” coloring.
For the next several hours we absolutely spanked the fish. Between the 3 of us we all managed around 80 tigers, with 2 fish each to keep for some table fare. YUMMY. They all ranged from 8-16 inches long and oh so pretty in color.
This trip was something a tad more memorable than the others in the years past. Bassackward has taken up the art of brewing some serious beer, and several flavors. I can’t name them all but I took the liberty of his “Life is Peachy Ale”. This was a brew that was flavored with peaches off of Mikes peach tree in the summer. And ooh sooo tasty. I slammed a 40 oz and had an ever so good buzz. Not too shabby! Thanks Mike!
After several hours of ripping the hell out of the fish’s lips we decided enough was enough and made our way to the burger joint in Fairview. This was a regular thing, we always finished the day with a burger, fries and a soft drink. Cure our hunger with a burger and end the trip with the satisfaction of filling our stomaches with grease.
What a great trip, as always. I have never been disappointed when going to to Huntington. AWESOME fun with friends and perty fishies.
I left the camera in Mike’s car but will post pics as soon as I get it back.
Here I am at work reminising about the ice fishing, so I check your report and bam you slap me with that dang football game. Now I’m all worked up again. I wish I would have stayed on the hard deck. Dang Utes. Oh well. lets go fishing.
congrates to cbr, you seemed to have the hot ticket. good luck at the b-day party.
[reply]Here I am at work reminising about the ice fishing, so I check your report and bam you slap me with that dang football game. Now I’m all worked up again. I wish I would have stayed on the hard deck. Dang Utes. Oh well. lets go fishing.
congrates to cbr, you seemed to have the hot ticket. good luck at the b-day party.[/reply]
Hey, you boys are welcome to join me and whoever else comes along.
So pissed off at the utes for blowing it on that game.