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Greetings,

I agree with blissed-out, and I know I am a big part of the problem. It has been the paperwork, and numerous e-mails not to mention my 140 students who have occupied my time. Bottom line a quick report on several waters Ririe: Excellent Have been killing the perch and kokes! Had a five species day with my son (24 kokes, 6 cutts, 2 suckers, 1 crawdad, and 26 perch 8-9.5 inches.) I am not going to say where, but I will state I am away from the crowds. Fished it yesterday when school was cancelled, must had been 20-25 below with a 35-40 below wind chill. Cold, but beautiful and the fishing was once again awesome.

Palies: Many reports have been given and I agree with most. One of the best years I have ever had at Palies. PM me if you want more information and are serious about extreme ice fishing.

Deep Creek: Hit it on a bad day, but the family still iced 15-20 fish in six hours of fishing. Stayed till dusk and landed a very nice 18' bow, and fat he was. Fished early January.

I plan on Ririe Friday, and hope to hit the cisco disco Saturday. Will post at a latter time.

OvidCreek
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Great report OC, sounds like you have been busy catching fish. Is Ririe usually that good for cranking out the kokes, was there any size to them? WH2
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WH2,

Ririe has been hit and miss the last few years, but this year has been quite productive for kokes. By the way I loved your wiper/ice story from the Utah Board; sounds like an experience anyone would wish to have.

OvidCreek
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Thanks, one thing is for sure, those wipers fight as hard in the winter as the summer, unless the one I caught was a odd-ball[crazy]. Sure wish I could get another chance to find out but it has been a tough act to follow, at least for me.
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I fished Ririe on Monday from 12:00-4:30PM. This was my first trip to Ririe this year so it was more of a searching mission than a catching one. My son and I ended up catching 5 trout the biggest one was 16" and fat. The other ones were 14" snakes and looked like they were going to die at any time.

We also caught a large sucker. The eagle flew over a couple times and thought about having sucker lunch, but decided it was not worth the hassle. Rumor has it that the eagles have become lazy and will steal a perch off the ice but will not put out the effort to a 4lb sucker.

The Kokanee came through on the bottom, but I was trying to teach my son how to set the hook and we only got one of them in before the school moved on.

I was really looking for a school of perch. I found them just before I had to leave and managed to bring in ten of them in the 8-10" range.

Over all it was a great day on the ice and I was pleased that my five year old stayed with it and kept fishing without any whining despite the below zero weather.

Lucas Ingram
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Windriver,

Glad to hear your five year old did well, perhaps he could coach my daughter[] The kokes have been different this year at Ririe; I have been catching them at all levels, but it has been about 7-8 years since I have caught them on the bottom. Went back on Friday, (had the day off) got there later than I usually arrive. On a four hour trip from 9:00-1:00 the family iced 10 perch, 4 cutts and one solitary koke. Some people were getting skunked and others killing them; I was just glad to be in the middle.

OvidCreek
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