I fished 5 hours at Indian Creek and not one bite . I moved twice and never even seen a fish on the finder . Curt G.
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Yeah thats how its has been for us too.There's just very few fish left in there. I was hopeing you saw my reply on the last post so you would drive up there to waste your time.
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Thanks for the update. Sorry about the skunk. Sounds like it has been a tough year for everyone up there.
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Don't be sorry , it was still a great day . We don't always catch fish . Beats the heck out of being at work . Curt G.
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You're right. Even a slow day of fishing beats the heck out of work (or school in my case)! Thanks again for the update.
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We fished blowout today from about 11 to 4. Caught 1 real nice 17" brown, had several other bites, then I had a monster on one of my poles I put out deeper, that thing ran my drag out 50 yards or so, after about 5 minutes I was able to get him back to the hole, I thought it'd be tired out, it flashed the hole and it either was a big rainbow or a big laker. It rolled and flipped its head all at once, big splash of water up the hole and snapped my line! I was glad I got a look at it though, even though I was really dissapointed not to have landed it. I had 2 or 3 good sized ones on that same hole before we left, but nothing iced. Talked to a couple other people fishing nearby and no one seems to be very happy about the way the fishing is up there so far this year. Maybe it'll improve, who knows.
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I fished at the dam yesterday afternoon. Lunar chart said 4 was to be the best time to fish. I started about 3:30. Missed 2 and finally landed a fat 14' cut about 5. I had a theory that the fish might be feeding at night, so I continued after sunset. Started getting alot of bites. Lost 5 and missed at least another 7. In trying to set the hook, I knocked the wire for my jigger off the pole. Of course, it went right down the hole. Then it started raining. After about an hour of that I was drenched so I loaded up about 8. Still had fun, but sure would have been a nice night without the rain. Think I would have caught more fish too.
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14'? That's one heck of a cutthroat! Nice job! LOL.[
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Yea, well you should try to operate the auger to drill a big enough hole to pull it through![cool]
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I have been up there twice this season and iced 1 brown a month ago and nothing last weekend. I wish I had any idea how to catch a laker in there, this being my first winter to fish it.
Also saw very very few fish on the finder.
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Hey kentd71,
Thought I might share an idea or two to help you increase your odds at finding fish on most reservoirs in the area. I have ice fished many of the reservoirs here in southeast Idaho over the years. We developed a technique which really ups our chances of pulling fish through the ice. First we drill a series of holes through the ice. First hole is about ten to 15 feet off shore, the second is straight out from the first hole going in a straight line, the 3rd hole another 15 feet out and etc. until we have drilled about five or six holes in a straight line. Before cleaning out the ice slush in any of the holes, we drop our depth (fish) finder transducer into the hole and check for activity of fish swimming through each hole. After about three minutes of watching the screen per hole we move to the next hole until we have checked all five or six. We then mark the holes with the most fish moving through them. Almost always two or three holes are the most active out of five or six. We spend little time messing around with the "dead" ice holes. This has really increased our catching rate concentrating on the active ice holes. Also we have found most fish of any species is usually just off the lake bottom or in the 8 foot to 12 foot down zone from the top of the ice. One other thing is we have found most fish are from 5 feet off shore to 30 feet out. An exception to this rule has been kokanee salmon at Mackay Reservoir are usually a hundred to 130 yards off from shore. Lake trout would fit more in this senario too at Palasaides Res. Occasionally trout are found farther out on American Falls Res. but the majority of fish are closer to shore perhaps grubbing around shore plants for food and shoreline rocks hunting for minnows and other food. Hope this helps.
DeeCee
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Pali
es can be a cruel mistress. It tends to be a feast or famine lake for me. More famine than feast. Last year I found some productive holes. I haven't had a chance to see if they are any good this year. It also seems that I have found the fish in the more dangerous places on the ice and lake. That is one reason I haven't gone back this year is a gut feeling that I avoided disaster last year and don't need to push the issue.
Windriver
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