Fishing Forum

[cool][#0000ff]Just got a notice from Brett Prettyman of the Tribune that he will be doing an article on Yuba Pike Fishing in the Thursday Outdoors section.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]He sent me a [url "http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=8EcLPUol_2w"]LINK TO A VIDEO[/url] that should get anybody excited.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I plan to hit Yuba a time or two in the next few weeks my own self.[/#0000ff]
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no secret is safe anymore [].. lol

i have seen some nice pike come out of there this year. sure hope it ices up again this year.. great place to ice fish! [sly]
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[cool][#0000ff]I'm betting that it will ice up...by January anyway.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I will look for your yellow "GPS" spots to find all your secret honey holes.[/#0000ff]
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oh not this year dude.. i have a secret weapon in development to gard agents unauthorized theft of GPS spots this year. [crazy]

just say no to yellow snow! [sly].
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That is funny. Fuzzy will have a can of that artifical spray snow to cover his tracks. hehe
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The video link is, "no longer available". At least when I tried to click on it.
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[cool][#0000ff]I just tried it and it worked okay. Maybe it is a "limited load" situation and subject to a limited number of people trying it at one time.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If you still have a problem, I will be posting a link to the article on Thursday...or sooner...and I am sure it will also have the video.[/#0000ff]
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that's a nice video. we used to catch northern's out by ely, nevada.
what a rush. [cool]
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[cool][#0000ff]I understand that there are still a few in a couple of those lakes but they do not get as big as they used to. They ate up all the groceries.[/#0000ff]
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Can you still launch a boat at painted rocks Yuba....
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[cool][#0000ff]I'm guessing that you can. From recent reports the lake is not all that low and is starting to rise a little after the water users are through.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I might be going down Monday and will post a report.[/#0000ff]
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Thanks I'll be watching...
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I'm a huge ice fishing junkie, but have never really fished for anything other than trout. When the new year comes (along with the new regs), I would like to go there and try for some perch and maybe a pike or two. As I mentioned, I know how to ice fish for trout. Do you do much different as far as tackle and technique when fishing Yuba's hard deck? Feel free to PM some tips you might be willing to part with (or not), or when the time comes I would be willing to help finance a trip down there.
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You can still launch at the state park so theoretically you should still be able to launch at painted rocks. The docks are gone hope this helps. Water is still low most of the brushy areas are out of water right now.
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39"

Not from Yuba.


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[cool][#0000ff]I am sure there will be quite a few early reports (after Jan 1 perch opening) from Yuba. A lot of folks anticipating the new regs. And, with the price of gas, I am sure there will be posts about "car pooling" trips with an empty seat or two. That is too far to drive for 10 dinky perch and a potential shot at walleye, pike and skinny trout.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The new regs will allow you to keep 10 perch (ridiculous), and also mandate that you keep the first ten you catch...and then quit fishing. With the huge population of stunting perch, there should be no limit and no silly restrictions about keeping the first ten little ones. That law is to prevent folks from "culling" a limit of larger fish by sending smaller ones down the hole. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]If the fish are taken from water deeper than about 30 feet, that is a consideration, because their air bladder swells up and they cannot return to the bottom when released. However, those who fished Yuba through the ice last year...and had to release all their perch...caught most of them in water about 20 - 25 feet deep...and all the fish released dove straight down without any apparent problems.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Yuba is different than most of the perch and trout ponds in the more northerly regions of Utah. When the water is at a lower level, there is not much structure for the fish to pattern on. All of the old brush in the lake has long ago disintegrated and there are no rockpiles. It is like a big bowl. But, there are some underwater points and humps that attract and hold fish. You just have to swiss cheese the ice and use your sonar to find the spots that hold fish. Of course, you can always just look for congregations of other anglers who are catching fish or look for abandoned holes with evidence (blood) around them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Lures and baits are pretty much the same for Yuba as anywhere else..with one potential difference. Ice jigs, small plastics and spoons...tipped with waxworms or crawlers...catch all of the species except maybe pike. Use minnows on a jig head or on a plain hook for them...and some walleyes too. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I am not sure if they will lift the current ban on the use of perch meat. During the perch moratorium they made Yuba off limits for using perch for bait. Hopefully they will allow it again. Perch eyes or strips of perch meat are about the best bait to tip your jigs with.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Now we have to hope for two things. First, that we get more water in the lake. Second, that the lake freezes up for the hard deck fans. [/#0000ff]
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[cool][#0000ff]That's a pretty northern...no matter where it came from.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Here's a pic of a 37" northern...FROM YUBA...along with a bucket of walleye.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Heres another pic of a smaller northern from Yuba, with some of the 14" - 16" perch that it used to produce...back in the 80's.[/#0000ff]

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I have fished Yuba sense back in the 1950's and one thing I have found sense they put the perch in was the perch don't stunt in Yuba.....

There was many years that no one fished for perch in any waters of Utah and perch didn't stunt when big perch came out of Deer creek and was left on the banks the same at Yuba....

The bigger perch will eat the smaller fish and as long as there is some bigger perch to spawn and eat on the smaller ones it will never stunt....

Not to protect the bigger perch will case them to be over harvested and stunt, Perch in Yuba get over 15" in the past as well in Deer creek if given time to grow....

Not all lakes will grow big perch, Gunnsion res. is a good lake as well for perch up to 13" Pineview up to 10"to 12" and so on...

But if we fish out the bigger ones then people start saying they are stunting that we as fisherman cause when the right predators are in the lake at the same time...

I for one is all for the ten perch limit, now day you will never pay for your trip with the fish you keep.....
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i have to agrey with ya on the perch in Yuba and gunnison res.. all the years i fished them i allways cought big perch.. even on them years others said it had crashed.. just seen less fish was all.

sure do wish the DWR would put cat's and perch back in gunnison.. but i think they dont feel it's worth there time.. darn it.. water is a problem for that lake. still if they could keep water in it for longer than 10 years we could see 25 + catfish in there again. i miss them slab bluegills that were there as well.
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