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[cool][#0000ff]Your moderator is a hypocrite. After just posting about not liking to fish in cold and wind, here I am putting up another post about going ice fishing. Went to Pineview, in Utah again yesterday, with TubeBabe.[/#0000ff]
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[font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][#0000ff]Got TubeBabe out on the ice for her first '07 trip. Had to work to convince her that she couldn't bring the tube though. She's a trooper but she still grumbled a lot about having to drag her own ice sled. As you will see in the picture, I thought it best to keep a ways ahead of her.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We hit the ice from the "swim beach" area, a half mile past where I usually get down to the water. My personal opinion is that it is easier to launch off the road by the caretaker's home. Much shorter distance to the water and not any steeper. It was a killer coming back in after the warm weather had slushed or melted the snow. My sled weighs a bunch with the 3 horse power auger.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Air temp was about 20, with no W when we went out at 7:30 AM. Had ice in the holes most of the morning, but by 11 or so it was almost shirt sleeve weather. Lots of sun and really comfy. I dosed with sunscreen but still got pink cheeks.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We worked toward the narrows, drilling and dipping in several areas. Saw only a few fish on sonar and had only one light bite in three stops. About two inches of snow on top of 6" of hard ice. The snow was slippery and without cleats I got in some ice skating practice until the snow slushed up a bit later in the morning. The snow will probably be crusty or even gone before the next dump on Thursday.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Stopped to fish the point on the north side of the opening to the narrows about 9. Punched holes from shallow to deep. No fish on sonar until about 50 feet. Quite a few fish in the 55 foot depths, from the bottom to ten feet up. They all had their little mouths firmly shut. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]TubeBabe finally scored the first fish, a 8 inch perch, about 9:15. I iced one about the same size a few minutes later. Then, noticing a few fish coming through off the bottom, I raised my jigs and hooked a nice crappie. I thought it might turn on, but other than a couple of other perch, nothing more from those holes.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]About 11 we headed across the narrows to the south side of the channel. That has been productive for larger perch and we were after perch for some chowder fixins. Again, I "swiss cheesed" an area that has produced in the past. TubeBabe followed me with her trusty ice rod, dipping into each new hole. On the third hole out from the shore she went bendo and iced a nice perch. Game on, I thought. Not so.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]While we munched sandwiches and enjoyed the radiant heat of a low hanging noon sun, we did occasionally coax a bite from the perchies. We managed to collect enough for some chowder in the tropical sunshine. About 2, the fish disappeared from sonar and we started backtracking on our way home. Stopped at the holes off the point and caught another half dozen perch. I iced a second crappie and we started the long laborious trudge back to the car about 3.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Got to "walkie talkie" with Tlspyder13 and DKSRenegade. They were fishin uplake. They both reported perch action, but no crappies. I think the tigers keep the crappies deep in Pineview. DKS reported that in the area he fished, off Cemetery Point, that the deepest water he could find was 25 feet, but that he had pretty fair action on perch all morning. He said he caught his larger ones in the afternoon. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]At least the perch are scattered around the lake. As folks find other good spots that should help take some pressure off the narrows. I am sure that the pressure has been responsible for the decreased bite most anglers have noticed. Everybody is seeing more fish on sonar than on their lines.[/#0000ff] [/size][/black][/font] [font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][size 1]Attachments:[/size][/font] [font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=20750;"][#333366] TUBEBABE TRUDGIN'.JPG [/#333366][/url](111 KB) [/size][/black][/font] [font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=20751;"][#333366] TUBEBABE PERCHIN'.JPG [/#333366][/url](113 KB) [/size][/black][/font] [font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=20752;"][#333366] ROADSIDE GATHERING.JPG [/#333366][/url](188 KB) [/size][/black][/font] [font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=20753;"][#333366] LI'L PORKY.JPG [/#333366][/url](216 KB) [/size][/black][/font] [font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=20754;"][#333366] FISH CAMP.JPG [/#333366][/url](257 KB) [/size][/black][/font] [font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][url "http://www.bigfishtackle.com/cgi-bin/gforum/gforum.cgi?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=20755;"][#333366] CHOWDER FIXINS.JPG [/#333366][/url](259 KB) [/size][/black][/font]
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I would not say you are that bad, as Pineview is a hell of a lot closer. Glad to see ya got some chowder meat. You have some mighty nice chunky look-in Perch in that mess of fish. I need to get out on to the ice, i have still never done it. Maybe some day we can hook up for an ice trip also. Glad you all had some success at least.

Majja
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[cool][#0000ff]Let's stay in touch. Jordanelle will be ready for perchin' soon, and it is even closer. Some bigger perch too. I'd be glad to show you how to go drillin' and dippin'. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]You can even bring your tube along. They make great ice sleds and might be useful if you go through the ice. (just kiddin')[/#0000ff]
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Nice pics! Looking at the background of snow covered hills and winter sunshine, while you guys trudged onto the lake, about made me break down and cry, as I viewed your snapshots from work. I had enough time to go for a quick jog yesterday, and ran to Lake Lowell, which is about 1.5 miles from my house. I had the fishin' Jones so bad I almost dove in and tried to catch one in my teeth!

Thanks for sharing the pics, though. From all the chat about perch here, I really want to catch some this spring and summer. I have never caught a perch, so I am looking forward to it. I have heard they are excellent to eat, and being a great fan of crappie, I'm sure I'll love them.
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[cool][#0000ff]I love perch...fishin' for them either through the ice or on soft water, catchin' 'em and eatin' 'em. They are easy to fillet and absolutely great on the table.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]You find a good spot for them and when I come up in the summer we will catch and cook a bunch of them.[/#0000ff]
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[cool] I'm on it!
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It is kinda funny you say that about perch. But I was just turned on to them, as an actually viable fish and not just a water rat.
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It was so nice on the lake yesterday I would have had to walk all the way down to where TubeDude was avoid another sunburn on the ice. They fished in a area that doesn't get much sun. Second degree burn last year on a higher lake so I put the sunscreen on now.

The pics made you want to fish your mention of Lake Lowell made me homesick. I was born in Nampa and my grandparents lived out by the lake. If we were really good my dad would take a detour by the lake on the way out to visit them. The world is a very small place.
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That's funny about you being from Nampa. I know homesickness, as I suffered it the 12 or so years I was not living in Idaho. Now that I'm back you will have to drag my cold dead body across the state line to get me out of here (something I'm sure my ex-wife would not object to--the cold, dead part, that is [])
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