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Anyone getting into the perch on the ice? I'm not real familiar with this area and was wondering if anyone could make some recommendations?

Thanks,

Justin
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try glendale.. Or onida.. These places have tons of perch...
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Any size to them? Thanks for the response.
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in onida I'm sure they are of good size... But in glendale there was a post not to long ago saying they were all dinks but plentyfull... Hope this helps
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Onieda has very big perch but be careful on there. The water receeds and leaves a gap between the ice and water. I have caught some really decent perch out of Twin Lakes reservoir as well.
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any first hand reports on there being a gap between the ice and water at oneida? i have heard this same thing and it has always scared me abit about fishing there but i have never heard anyone with first hand knoledge
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I would like to know as well. I went twice last winter and didn't experience this but i was far away from the dam.
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that has happened at chesterfield as well.. I know a guy that went out there to hesterfield and he left the second he drilled his first hole as he said the water was about 20 feet down from the ice... Which I thought about it it was the year they let alot of water out trying to break beaver dams down stream... Which is way scary.. I would probly need a new pair if I drilled a hole and scene the water that far below the ice... I have scene it where it is just touching the ice but not below the ice
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i would think that the weight of the ice would break its self without the boyance of water. i would love to see a picture of it but like the guy above i sure wouldnt be sticking around.
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[] Virtually all the reservoirs around the Preston area and Weston Reservoir over the mountains and east of Malad have yellow perch. However, it seems they are at the down end of the cycle right now in these res. Three years ago Twin Lakes was producing good. Two years ago Glendale had a few nice perch, and my son and I got a couple of eight or nine inchers out of Johnson Reservoir.
Try fishing in the deeper water between 15 to twenty feet deep and just off bottom for the larger fish. We found we caught the larger ones in deeper water. Last summer float tubing, my son and I brought back over 125 yellow perch in three trips from Carey Lake just a mile or two east of the townsite of Carey, Idaho. We didn't keep many under 7". You will have to go north to Arco, turn left (West) at the stop light in town and drive thru Craters of the Moon National Monument site about twenty-five miles west of there.. Carey lake is another 10 to twelve miles west of Craters. Carey Lake is about 125 miles from Blackfoot. You will come to a Fish and Game Sportsman access sign on the left side of road. Turn on road and go 100 yards to the launch. Be careful of the ice. It's probably safe to fish but Carey Lake has a warm springs and another warm stream flowing into it from the east and north sides. Check the ice first. Lots of bluegill and pumpkinseed sunfish and a good population of yellow perch. Largemouth bass and a few bullhead catfish too.
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I used to stop in Carey and catch a lot of perch in years past, but it seemed to get so weedly that I wasn't catching much. Have you been there this winter? Is it iced up? I have not been there in over three years.
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I had the very same thing happen to me. My Dad and I were ice fishing a small reservoir west of Challis. After the auger broke through the ice it dropped clear to it's handle and never touched water. We didn't stick around to see where the water actually was. SPOOKY!!
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there are some earlier posts about Carely Lake and ice fishing this season.
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