How many of you guys were in the area back in the late 70's when pulling 4-6 pound rainbows out of pineview was common place. Yes I did say rainbows out of pineview. It amazes me that some people have a hard time believing that, they are justified in their thoughts now a days, I just miss the old days. And the times you could go ice fishing out on willard, when the ice was thick enough to a snowmoble out to the middle and you would still have to bore through 10 inches of ice and pull 6-8" crappie out, enough to have nieghbors over for a fish fry. A beer bartered chunk of crappie, life just doesn't get much better than that. Well just thought I would try to bring back some memories.[crazy][crazy][crazy]
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[cool][#0000ff]Yes indeedy. Those were the days when I first started tubing a lot of the Utah waters. I remember Pineview rainbows. I also remember that the summertime water temps got so high that most of the bows got anchor worms on their sides. We used to call them "pizza-side rainbows". More browns then too. Tons of crappies and lotsa largies. Sure has changed.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Ditto for Willard. Wall to wall crappies, bigger cats and bigger walleyes. Like you say, the ice fishing was great on Willard. You could cover the ice with crappies, bluegill and even some small walleyes in either of the two harbors. Even caught some channel cats through the ice at the north marina.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Both lakes are different now. Not worse, but different. You just gotta go with the flow. It is nice to have the diversity we have in those lakes today, but crappie fans cry a lot. The wiper and tiger muskie chasers usually shut them up though.[/#0000ff]
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I remember the rainbows in pineview. We where still catching them in the late 80's and early 90's then it came to an end around 91 or 92.
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Your correct TD you just have to change with the times, I haven't decided if I like Wiper or Crappie better anyway (of course the the fight of a wiper will never compare to a 8" crappie[
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Oh yea,those were some good old days. 18 to 20 inch rainbows were pretty common in the 60's and 70's on Pineview. We usually trolled a silver or silver and black flatfish and sometimes a frog flatfish. In about 1985 my son did a science fair project about crappie in Willard. His question was, do crappie prefer a particular color jig under the ice and if so, what color? Well, we went to Willard about five nights a week,drilled two holes and proceeded with the study. During the winter we caught, charted and released almost 900 crappie. What a fun way to earn school credit. He got an A on his project and Pa had fun also. It was pretty common to catch 10 to 20 fish between 8 and 11 inches in a couple hours. Hey, we got it pretty good today but it's still fun to remember the good old days.
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Okay this was supposed to stir up some memories of days past, not turn into a political debate. Can't we all just get along.[
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[cool][#0000ff]The hijackers can continue their fun on the off topic board.[/#0000ff]
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Sorry for part of the hijack but I didn't start it he did.....
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HMMM THEM GOOD OLD DAYS. YA I REMEMBER THEM DAYS. LIKE 25 INCH CUTBOWS IN THE BERRY IN 1969 25 INCHERS WERE JUST AN AVERAGE FISH.
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Yep, but can you just imagine the look on someones face back in the 70's pulling out a 40" plus tiger muskie out of pine view[sly][sly].
We live in a great time, we have the memories of days past and the hope of the big ones in the future.
Good fishin
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YA THAT PERSON WOULD HAVE DROPED THE POLE STARTED THE BOAT AND SPLIT. FREAKED..... LOL. BUT I AM GLAD FOR WHAT HAS CHANGED. STILL NEED MOORE WALLEYE LAKES!!!!
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We used to ice fish Willard around 1980-1984 and we could always rely on a Crappie fest! We would fish at night with Coleman lanterns next to the ice hole. Thanks for stirring up those old memories Windknot!
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here's the good old day's i rember here in the central part of the state.. Yuba Dam getting 12"+ ice cap every year and 100 to 200 great big fat perch a day. and walleye on tap all day long any time of the year. or gunnson res pulling 5 to 8 lbs black bass out of it all summer long.. great big perch there as well. and some of the biggest catfish i have ever seen in this state were in gunnson.
ah the good old day's!! wish they were back!!
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I bet that everyone in the "Good old days" was also wishing they were in the "Good old days" many years even earlier. I know that I would love to be able to turn back the clock and fish The Columbia River about 100 years ago. There were some amazing runs of salmon and other fishies on The Columbia River back in those Good old days.
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Not to mention the Sturgeon fishing in the old days on the river.
Before my birth my folks fished for Sturgeon on that river commercially.. Of course some of the stories my pappy told me might have been a bit of a stretch. But my mom comfirmed the tales so they must be true.. [
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