# Scofield 1/18/10 - Hot fishing! ...for small fish

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**Category:** Utah Fishing General\
**Created:** [January 19, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/scofield-1-18-10-hot-fishing-for-small-fish/162001 "2010-01-19T19:53:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![RyanCreek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aca169/32.png) [@RyanCreek](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/RyanCreek)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/scofield-1-18-10-hot-fishing-for-small-fish/162001/1 "2010-01-19T19:53:42Z")

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Disclaimer: While the fishing was hot, most fish were on the small side - PLEASE TAKE HOME LIMITS OF RAINBOWS!

I hit the ice at Scofield again, working a particular portion of the dam arm that has been especially productive for me for many years. It lived up to it’s reputation as I got fish right away after dropping into the first hole.

I fished from noon to 6 pm, in 8 to 17 feet of water. Fishing was good the entire time, but best for me from 12 to 1pm, and at sundown. I used a variety of presentations, and tipped with salmon eggs, meal worms, or large pieces of commercially prepared chub minnow. The most productive combo was a small white glow tube jig tipped with a mealworm 6 inches under a silver kastmaster.

Would not be surprised if my total fish count was over 30. Most of the fish were skinny cutthroats 12-14 inches. Lots of smaller rainbows, and only 1 or 2 decent bows. A tiger trout and a cutthroat both about 17 inches were the biggest fish of the day, both caught as the sun was going down with a large glow tube jig and a chub minnow head. Both, of course, were released unharmed to eat more chubs.

Saw a couple large chubs previous anglers had caught tossed on the ice.

Didn’t get a pic of the tiger, but here’s the Cutt - Nothing spectacular

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**Author:** ![IceAndFly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/46a35a/32.png) [@IceAndFly](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/IceAndFly)\
**Post date:** [January 19, 2010, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/scofield-1-18-10-hot-fishing-for-small-fish/162001/2 "2010-01-19T21:21:22Z")

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Nice report. Lots of fun to be had on Scofield if you like fairly fast action for smaller fish.

I guess my only question is why you encourage taking home a limit of small bows? Why not give them a year to grow up?