I went out to my storage shed and got my sonar off my tube and rigged it up for ice fishing.
**I could swear I heard my tube whimpering…maybe from the cold and maybe from loneliness. Poor thing. **
Sorry. That’s the best I can do until the daytime temperatures warm up enough to melt that infernal Antarctic ice cap. Came in early and has been building with a vengeance.
Global warming? Yeah, right. Not in Utah.
I hear ya Pat. I need to do the same (go to the shed and get sonar rigged for ice).
It’s been a busy month. I haven’t even looked at the water since our Pinview adventure back before Thanksgiving.
Good luck when you make it out. Prolly gonna be a couple more weeks for me.
Happy New Year everyone!
I went out today and scouted some places to float the snake river hopefully for cats. There was so much private land that it will make the trips a long one at best. The first take out is only 1/2 mile or so and is not a great take out. The next one is 5 miles and it is a tough take out. The next one is at 7 miles and that is a good take out spot. If the river is running about what it was last spring I think the 7 mile trip would just be a good day floating and fishing. The next take out from there would be at 10 miles. That one would be a tough take out. The bank is very steep and it would be a bugger to get up. If a guy missed that take out there is no public access until the next take out spot, at mile 19.67
I am not sure these trips would even be worth much as far as fishing goes. This stretch is very shallow I think. I was told by biologists that they don’t do much work there because it is too shallow for their boats. I know that cats like to come into the shallows and this stretch has higher DO rates than the lower impoundment does.
I have been doing a lot of studying on this stretch and I wish the 5 mile take out spot was better. The 7 mile trip could be a slow one without much flow, or it could be a half day trip if the river is big like last year. Oh well I can keep thinking ice started at mile 5 and was solid at mile 23. If I don’t catch any cats in this stretch of milner I am going to call it quits for milner and drive west. Ron
Way to go Pat. Ice fishing is better then no fishing 
Please post some pictures of your ice fishing expedition.
Of course you have to mention the float tube just
to keep it “legal” here[;)]
Happy new year.
Peter
Way to go Pat. Ice fishing is better then no fishing
Please post some pictures of your ice fishing expedition.
Of course you have to mention the float tube just
to keep it “legal” here[;)]
Happy new year.
Peter
Happy New Years to you too…and everybody else.
**Of course I would not make a post on this board without being “legal”. Since I usually fish right up until iceup and I am usually one of the first on the water as the ice is breaking up in the spring, I am a “crossover” tuber/ice fisherman. **
Just in case you missed my first tubing report from last February, here is a link:
ICE TUBING
Wow TD. I love your ice tubing report and super love
those pictures .
14F is a little too cold for me, but for a man of your
caliber…no problem
Thank you for the link to your report.
Peter
Global warming? Yeah, right. Not in Utah.
NOT HERE IN NEBRASKA EITHER!!! [crazy]
Well ice is starting to come off the lower elevation lakes, won’t be long now!
Yeah, right. Here are some “float tubing” pictures from last Friday on Utah Lake. Sure, they are catfish, but they came from under a foot of ice on a day when the high temperature was only 30 degrees.
Hey a guy can dream can’t he?