Fishing Forum

I hit DC western marina about 9am today, but decided the ice was too soft to trust. Drove the the Wallsburg arm to fish the ice edge.

The action on floating bait was fast enough I could not get my second pole into play. Caught 6 in an hour and missed a bunch more. The bite is still light, and I had to downsize to a #14 treble before I started to have them commit to my bait. All rainbow hatchery stock, nice and fat running 14 to 16 inches. I fished it anywhere from 6 to 24 inches off the bottom - did not seem to matter. I had on the peach salmon Berkley floating bait.
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I have a couple questions I hope you wouldn't mind answering. First how far off shore was the ice? And second what part of the arm were you fishing? I am ready for some open water! Thanks for the report!!
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The ice has retreated to the area of the brushy bend about two thirds of the way toward the creek inlet. The ice was water was open from there to the inlet, and iced over across the arm from there on down. It was not retreating from the shore as much as retreating from the creek waters. i was fishing from the shore, tossing about twenty feet out along the ice line.
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Saturday the ice had retreated about 12 feet off the shore line at the main marina at the south west end of the reservoir. Fished last hour of daylight using floating bait tossed onto the ice, then pulled off to sink along the ice line. Took my limit home and missed others. Two were standard hatchery rainbows, and two were male rainbows in darker spawning colors and early hooked jaws. Sizes range from 13 - 15 inches.
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