03-01-2009, 04:28 AM
I haven't been able to fish for the last two weeks, so I was really excited go get out today. Huntington, Currant Creek, and Scofield were on the short list, but I couldn't decide which. Checked my bait last night and it was all dead. Off to Cabelas to get some more. They put a board up with fishing info. In all caps: SCOFIELD: FISHING VERY SLOW. I hate it when the speak poorly about my favorite lake! Game on! Scofield it is!
Temps: arrival 7:30am -5 degrees, departure 4:30pm 35 degrees.
Weather: great, sunny, no wind.
Area: West side in 8 feet of water
Ice: Excellent. 8 inched of crusted snow on 24 inches of ice.
Setup: FWB glow white jighead, tipped with crawler
Caught/iced: 10 rainbows (5 nice footballs, 5 smaller footballs)/kept 4 chunky ones
6 tigers all under the slot/returned to eat chubs
6 cutts 3 real nice ones and 3 medium ones/returned to eat chubs
I was checked by an incredibly nice Conservation Officer. He was really nice and very thorough. Checked my bows over real close to make sure there were no cutthroat markings. Explained the slot. I actually enjoyed the whole interaction. He's a great guy. He told me his name, but I don't remember so well now days.
He said I was the only person on the lake doing much catching. He came back around noon to see how I was doing. I had caught twelve by then. He said no one else was even coming close to those numbers. I ended the day with 22 iced. Missed a bunch, lost a bunch, two breakoffs, lost a really nice tiger coming up the hole[mad]
Really fun day. Just had to prove the board at Cabelas wrong. I knew it couldn't be that slow!
I'll try to post some pics. Warning, I don't know how to resize or post them, so I hope it works.
IceAndFly (formerly Chester)
It's all about the hook set...drive that steel home!
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Temps: arrival 7:30am -5 degrees, departure 4:30pm 35 degrees.
Weather: great, sunny, no wind.
Area: West side in 8 feet of water
Ice: Excellent. 8 inched of crusted snow on 24 inches of ice.
Setup: FWB glow white jighead, tipped with crawler
Caught/iced: 10 rainbows (5 nice footballs, 5 smaller footballs)/kept 4 chunky ones
6 tigers all under the slot/returned to eat chubs
6 cutts 3 real nice ones and 3 medium ones/returned to eat chubs
I was checked by an incredibly nice Conservation Officer. He was really nice and very thorough. Checked my bows over real close to make sure there were no cutthroat markings. Explained the slot. I actually enjoyed the whole interaction. He's a great guy. He told me his name, but I don't remember so well now days.
He said I was the only person on the lake doing much catching. He came back around noon to see how I was doing. I had caught twelve by then. He said no one else was even coming close to those numbers. I ended the day with 22 iced. Missed a bunch, lost a bunch, two breakoffs, lost a really nice tiger coming up the hole[mad]
Really fun day. Just had to prove the board at Cabelas wrong. I knew it couldn't be that slow!
I'll try to post some pics. Warning, I don't know how to resize or post them, so I hope it works.
IceAndFly (formerly Chester)
It's all about the hook set...drive that steel home!
[signature]
] maybe tomorrow? your report encouraged me. Thanks again.