# President's day at Rockport **URL:** \ **Category:** Utah Fishing General\ **Created:** [February 17, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/presidents-day-at-rockport/144348 "2009-02-17T18:08:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![UtahSprig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9d8465/32.png) [@UtahSprig](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/UtahSprig)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/presidents-day-at-rockport/144348/1 "2009-02-17T18:08:07Z")
A good friend and I took our boys up to Rockport for a bit of ice fishing yesterday. There weren’t too many folks there considering it was a holiday, and it was fairly easy to get a spot away from the crowds. We started in about 10-15 feet of water and managed one rainbow about 15" in length. Other than one or two small hits after that it was pretty dead. We moved out a bit deeper and started fishing in 12-20 feet. Managed another 15" bow that was a fatty and then one small bow that went maybe 11" and that was it. Bite was fairly light, and the winds didn’t help either as they had the poles swaying in the wind. The first bow was landed on a small jig with a wax worm, fished about a foot or so off the bottom. The other two were caught on powerbait fished about 15" off the bottom. It did seem that the powerbait was preferred by the fish, most of the light bites we had were on the dough. We finally left when the weather turned and it looked like it was going to get ugly. Wouldn’t you know it that after we were loaded up the skies cleared and the snow stopped. Typical for Rockport I guess. Still it was a good time. I forgot to mention that it was my boys first time on the ice and I think he’ll be back for more. ---
**Author:** ![spoondog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@spoondog](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/spoondog)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 6:11pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/presidents-day-at-rockport/144348/2 "2009-02-17T18:11:50Z")
Congrats on the fish, and good on ya for introducing some new faces to the ice. ---
**Author:** ![spoondog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/977dab/32.png) [@spoondog](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/spoondog)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/presidents-day-at-rockport/144348/3 "2009-02-17T18:13:16Z")
Forgot to ask about shoreline ice conditions. Are they still looking good? ---
**Author:** ![UtahSprig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9d8465/32.png) [@UtahSprig](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/UtahSprig)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/presidents-day-at-rockport/144348/4 "2009-02-17T19:50:48Z")
Spoondog, the ice was fine. About 12"-13" thick and the edges were good too. There was maybe a couple of inches of snow on top, but it wasn’t bad. However, who knows what the snow situation is now with this weather. ---
**Author:** ![Out4Trout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/f04885/32.png) [@Out4Trout](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/Out4Trout)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 1:50am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/presidents-day-at-rockport/144348/5 "2009-02-18T01:50:39Z")
🕶Yep, same 'ol Rockport of the past two years… I hope that the perchery comes back there in a year or two…