# Utah Float Tubing Report **URL:** \ **Category:** Float Tubing General\ **Created:** [December 28, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-float-tubing-report/160709 "2009-12-28T19:21:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-float-tubing-report/160709/1 "2009-12-28T19:21:49Z")
🕶 **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.** ---
**Author:** ![ParrMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4491bb/32.png) [@ParrMark](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/ParrMark)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-float-tubing-report/160709/2 "2009-12-28T20:08:38Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![idahoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4da419/32.png) [@idahoron](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/idahoron)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 11:04pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-float-tubing-report/160709/3 "2009-12-28T23:04:26Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![peter805](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@peter805](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/peter805)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 3:48am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-float-tubing-report/160709/4 "2009-12-29T03:48:40Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-float-tubing-report/160709/5 "2009-12-29T12:17:03Z")
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](http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?post=476590#p476590)** ---
**Author:** ![peter805](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@peter805](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/peter805)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-float-tubing-report/160709/6 "2009-12-29T16:31:10Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![ydoc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/f08c70/32.png) [@ydoc](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/ydoc)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-float-tubing-report/160709/7 "2009-12-29T20:17:47Z")
**Global warming? Yeah, right. Not in Utah.** NOT HERE IN NEBRASKA EITHER!!! [crazy] ---
**Author:** ![albinotrout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@albinotrout](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/albinotrout)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 2:59am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-float-tubing-report/160709/8 "2010-02-02T02:59:12Z")
Well ice is starting to come off the lower elevation lakes, won’t be long now!🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TubeDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@TubeDude](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/TubeDude)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-float-tubing-report/160709/9 "2010-02-02T11:18:37Z")
🕶 **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.** ---
**Author:** ![albinotrout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7c8e57/32.png) [@albinotrout](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/u/albinotrout)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2010, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.bigfishtackle.com/t/utah-float-tubing-report/160709/10 "2010-02-02T18:40:24Z")
Hey a guy can dream can’t he?