Fishing Forum

Well, well; I'm gone two days and there are 59 new threads for me to look through. How's a guy supposed to keep up. I had a pretty busy fishing weekend; stawberry on friday, steinaker on saturday, and pelican on sunday. All I can say is the weather was waaaay to nice this weekend. I had to make up an excuse to use the new tent. Stawberry was a little slow, chris and I hit the marina parking lot about 7:30, saw all the people off the boat ramp and opted for the other side. We moved around a little and got into a fish now and then, both of us forgot our minnows so it was mealies and gulp maggots for us. We are both a little new at the stawberry game so every trip is learning something new, both of us iced between 6 and 10 nice fish, all in the slot on the standard stuff. Chris caught a few fish right under the ice that he got to watch the fish take his jig, I kept an eye on the sonar, but never found any cruisers that high.
Saturday I hit steinaker, a real home coming for me; it's where I broke my ice fishing teeth. It was exactly as I remember it, every single fish that comes on the sonar will at least give you a bump, it's just up to you to find 'em and hook 'em. Fished from about 2 pm until dark and iced atleast 15 fish and tightlined about a dozen more all your standard 14 -16" ers and one small brown iced by my fishing guru; all of 'em were "nice for their size".
Now for pelican, I was a little disappointed, because this leg of the marathon was originally planned for flaming gorge, but it got postponed due to no ice south of Cody, WY. I hit the same spot, with the same bait as the last trip out and got a good lesson in why it's call "fishing" and not "catching", caused I fished a lot and caught a little. The day did start out with a nice largemouth before my jig hit the bottom, but it was down hill from there. Saw tons of fish on the sonar, but very few takers. Moved a bunch and everywhere I went it was the same. I only iced about a dozen bluegill and 2 largemouth between 10 and 3. Everyone else where I was at seemed to be moving a bunch as well, just one of those days I guess. The only good part of pelican is I didn't fall in THAT lake. I fell in my own ice hole at Strawberry and was lucky I didn't go in to my icehole.
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Hey FWP,

Thank's for the report's and pics. How much ice is out at Steinaker. We are planning on going out to the inlaws in vernal this weekend. Where did you fish? Highway side or State park side. I have had some great ice fishing trips for big bow's and Bass out there. Sorry you didn't do as well at pelican as you did last time.


Tincanfsh
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What a great weekend Phil. Three lakes in three days is great.
I guess with that much time on the ice, you have to expect some slow time. The weather this weekend was awsome, a great time to be fishing. If you forget shinners at the Berry again, I think that you can buy some at the marina. It sounds like you did ok without them anyway.
I was going to fish somewhere on Saturday, but we decided to have a new grandson instead. I had to think about which I wanted to do for about 2 seconds and then opted for my new fishing buddy.[]Mom and son are doing well! DKS.
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There was about 6" of clear ice under an inch of grey that had melted and refroze making the surface super slick. I was fishing from the state park side simply because I forgot my jetsled and hand auger and I didn't know if I could tow the ice tent and gas auger back up the hill with no snow on it. The edges are plenty soft and with weather reports having the temps climbing for a few weeks you might want to bring a plank to get out on the lake.
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