Fish Lake 1-12-13

Utah Fishing Reports & Discussion Utah Fishing General
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Thanks to my car breaking down in the snowstorm at Sportsmans Wearhouse on Friday night I thought my trip with DuckDog1us to Fish lake on Saturday would be canceled. Not so! Desperate times call for desperate measures.

By 6am I was off to provo in this slick ride…

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45 minutes and $5.10 I was in Orem getting into DuckDog’s car. The continueous snowfall haunted us all the way to Nephi were we missed the turn off to Gunnison. So we took a detour through I-15 and Avon to Fish Lake. Roads were nice so that might have been a blessing in digiuse acutally.

Arriving at Fish Lake by 10am there was sunshine abound and ice fisherman all around. We settled down just past the Mackinaw Campground and witnessed a perch fest going on. We drilled some test holes for depth measurements and set up in a 6 man tent. The perch were suckers for sucker meat…first drop in the hole resulted in a good sized perch which revealed the pattern for the next few hours. Then came the splake and rainbows for everyone in the tent.

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By 2pm the fishing was slumping off and we decided to pack up and head back to Twin Creeks…my favorite spot on that lake!

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Sure enough there was a bit of open water that begged to be casted in. 1st cast provided me with a fat rainbow…

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After 3 more fish I suddenly got some company (which was fine with me) and I wanted to get back on the ice since DuckDog was slaughtering them in the tent.

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We couldn’t keep the splake away!!!

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The action was lights out till dark…

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In a group of 3 we caught around 75 splake, 47 yellow perch, 25 rainbows, and 1 sucker. The drive back was a bit slow from Gunnison to Nephi but I still caught the 9:05pm train in Orem back to SLC.

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Glad the train service got you on your fishing trip. Looks like it was a good day. Thanks for sharing. How big were the perch running?

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Nice! Glad you made it down. Must have been something in the air this weekend with the vehicles breaking. Hmmm.

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Glad the train service got you on your fishing trip. Looks like it was a good day. Thanks for sharing. How big were the perch running?

All were 8 to 10.5 inches long. Pretty meaty though compared to the average perch you find in Utah these days.

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10.5 is a really decent perch. I have caught bigger but I would be happy to fill a bucket with perch that size.

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DuckDog really wanted one over 11 inches and it didn’t happen. I was glad to just see eater sized perch but the other tents around us seemed to have perch that were smaller. There were no minnow perch for us.

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It seems this thread has been officially hijacked.:laughing: Glad the twins had a good trip.

Not any longer, I moved the highjacking to a new thread. Kent

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Yeah I wish they would just boycott the trouble makers. You would think if the man had a degree in something he would learn to use a little disgression as when to talk and when not, and maybe try to be a little more up lifting. Maybe we will have to check into seeing if he is on company time using mine and yours tax dollars doing this stuff. I love Perch at Fish Lake.

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Yeah I wish they would just boycott the trouble makers. You would think if the man had a degree in something he would learn to use a little disgression as when to talk and when not, and maybe try to be a little more up lifting. Maybe we will have to check into seeing if he is on company time using mine and yours tax dollars doing this stuff. I love Perch at Fish Lake.

Who you talking about?

by the way, discussions of perch in this thread have been forbidden.