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Fished the Big Elk Creek bay today with limited success. Started at around 9:30a.m and fished until dusk. Caught a couple of 16 inch Cutts to start the day on Glow head Rat Finkes tipped with a waxie. Then it got real slow. Lost a real nice fish at the hole later in the day when the line got tangled with the Vex cord. No problem with the slush on top of the ice or the shore ice. Still a great day to live in Idaho. How lucky we are!
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Welcome to the board. We hope to hear from you often. I haven't made it to Palies this winter. The fishing is usually too slow for my young boys. How was the slush? Ovidcreek is the resident Palies expert. Maybe he will chime in.

Windriver
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Thanks for the report. Sounds like the slush is solid. It was horrible two weeks ago. Guess I'll have to get back up there.
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First of all I am glad more people are posting about Palies; this place is trully special just like Strawberry in Utah, but you have to deal with ten times more slush, hiking, climbing, and skunked frustration, however, hookedlikeu said it a few weeks ago, "once you have a good day at Palies you will not want to go anywhere else." The 45 minute freenzy bite is almost like a koke run at Ririe, but they are big fish. They bite hard then it dies, and if a fish bites they barely indicate it. This is where the vex comes into play! I know they are expensive, but if someone will pay $350.00 for a nice shotgun to kill doves/grouce why not do the same for fishing? I remember the mental debate at Sportsmens, and I am glad I took the plunge. My skunk days are almost nill since I bought a vex, and there are many days I do not set all my poles up, because the vex keeps me busy. Windriver, your words are kind, but I am far from the expert status when it comes to Palies. And by the way I bet your oldest son would love it! I do hope one day to have a big silver beard and then perhaps I will understand my favorite fishing hole[]

My Palies Rules:

1. Bring the lantern for early am or into the pm fishing. Palies is beautifull at night, and catching fish by a lantern is awesome.

2. Fish 25-50 feet from shore, with maybe one rod 10 feet from shore and others headed out within 100 feet of shore.

3. Use pink or white glow jigs.

4. Crawlers usually outdo mealies, and the head of the crawler seems to work better.

5. When the bite is on get your line back in the hole; Don't celebrate to the bite is over. You may even ice five fish in ten minutes out of the same hole.

6. Bring dry socks and change when your area freezes.

7. Never give up learn from a skunking and give it another try.

OvidCreek
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Thanks for the info OvidCreek. I made my first trip to pallies ice fishing a week or two ago, just caught one, but i figure you've got to pay your dues before you really figure it out[pirate].
Do you have any advice on good locations? I was by big elk creek. Have you had any luck with the lake trout?
Either way thanks for the advice!
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No real advice for the lakers, however, I know a few people have caught them by Big Elk. I usually go for the 1-3 pound multiple fish experience. This doesn't mean I will not throw a piece of sucker meat on and go out a little deeper with a spring bobber and give it a shot. I have also heard by the gates near the dam can produce a lake trout every once in a while. I have cisco meat, but everthing I understand is it can only be used at Bear Lake. I have not scene this in writing, however, but believe it to be accurate.

OvidCreek
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Drshen,

Welcome to BFT Idaho and thanks for the report.

OvidCreek,

As far as I know there is no where in the regulations that says it would be illegal to use cisco meat at Palies or any body of water you could use fish meat for bait.
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Been fishing The Sades for most of my life. This year has been much better than the past few. My family and I usually start out fishing the Big Elk Arm as soon as it freezes, and then move down to the dam later in the year. With the lake coming up it never hurts to bring a plank to get on the ice with. Good luck, and if you don't catch all the fish, I will!
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Southforksly is easy to outfish because he falls asleep in his lawn chair.
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I will second that one. He sometimes throws his poles all over the ice too...
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Southforksly is easy to outfish because he falls asleep in his lawn chair. [/reply]
sounds like a good day of fishin
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Punk [url "mailto:*&@#$"]*&@#$[/url] brothers of mine!(hookedlikeu and fishdude).. We will tally the score next time we go. I hear Ririe handed it to ya on Sunday morning Hookedliku. And as for the utard..I'm not even going to go there!
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