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Lake Mary - So UWN's Pavlik finally met up with my twin and I. This time an adventure ensued! We arrived at the lake by 10:45am after our hike full of stares from the the resort goers. A ski patroler asked what was on my twin's pack and he said "a snowcone maker!" :lol: We drilled the 1st hole and held our breath, the auger almost wasn't long enough. The ice was 38 inches thick!

Right off the bat my twin landed a brookie. Then Pavlik caught a brookie. We were in 14 feet of water (too deep) so I moved to 8 feet of water. It was on! I caught 4 brookies when I heard Eviltyedye say "dam I got a snag". Well suddenly that snag was taking line. Knowing a lake trout was on there the excitement gave way to disappointment when the hook came back almost bent straight! You only get one shot at those per day so Evil and I moved to the separated upper lake mary away from the dam. We tried 34 feet of water and 24 feet of water with no results but a few marked fish at the 34 foot hole. I ran into two snowboarding Austrian tourists that were shocked to not only see me ice fishing but that the sonar was showing fish right below their feet. They snapped a few pics of me and later the whole group from on top of the dam when Evil and I heard Pavlik was nailing fish. We left by 3:45pm.

In total I got 4 brookies, Pavlik got 4 brookies, and Evil got 1 brookie. Slower than last time but if Evil would have got that Laker we'd be claiming it was a SPECTACULAR day.

We were using pumpkin pepper jigs tipped with a BIG and LONG nightcrawler, no peices of worm got love. A few hits came on the jigs with salmon eggs. One brookie was caught using a glow pepper jig with a crawler too. It was the group cocensus that the fish were taveling in schools every 10 to 20 mins or so. Suddenly every rod got a hit and then nadda. Maybe the lakers were chasing them around!

Pavlik and I finally at Lake Mary


Me skiing into Lake Mary


Pavlik's 1st brookie of the day. Always put s on faces!


My stringer of Brook Trout


Pavlik's Big Brook Trout

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Oh how that Lake Trout will be taughting me for the rest of my life! I will probley one day in the coming years get a Laker bigger than that one....however it will always be smaller that the one I lost. They say that kind of experince keeps an angler into the sport of fishing.....personally it just haunts me. At 38 inches thick, and the ice getting thicker everyday..... wont likely go back till ice out.

A message to the fish

To: Mr Big Mac (thats right I name the bigguns that get away)
You fought hard today...you bent a hook that I could not bend using just my bare hands...let alone my mouth. Somehow you did it. You beat the house and beat the odds. You got away from the fate of being brought up through the light in your sky, placed on a metal stringer, followed by a spot on my barbeque. May you swim free, harassing the brookie population at will, cruising your small little alpine habitat high in the mountains. You made your ansestors proud today. In my tackle box you are more than 100% laker, your 200% laker.
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Too bad you guys like eating suckers so much. That sucker meat makes some damn good bait for the macs. Also might want to put it on a tube jig about 10 times bigger then the one you were using.
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You guys certainly earn those fish, but what a great place to go if your physically able. Good on you. Great colors on that bigger brookie.
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[quote CVfisher]Too bad you guys like eating suckers so much. That sucker meat makes some damn good bait for the macs. Also might want to put it on a tube jig about 10 times bigger then the one you were using.[/quote]

Dude I didn't eat the sucker. That is a great idea for mac bait but I bet they like the taste of brookies so much more! We heard a heavy wire hook will do better but a big old brookie jig aint a bad idea. Might put that on the second pole, but my 2nd pole permit expired on Feb. 1st.

We drilled 10 holes total and that was in 38 inches of ice. Ughhh I can't imagine us drilling 20 holes in that.
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[quote wyoguy]You guys certainly earn those fish, but what a great place to go if your physically able. Good on you. Great colors on that bigger brookie.[/quote]

Yes I would know. I blew out my knee last year while backcountry skiing so I had to stick to easy places like Rockport to go out. Even then ice fishin on crutches was ruff. Now days this is a combo of backcountry skiing and ice fishing. Both are passions of my life but I do preffer Backcountry skiing.

Next up is Lake Blanche, Lake Catherine, and White Pine Lake. Kind of waitng to see how the avalanche danger plays out as it is hard to get away from slides while ice fishing. Certainly not as easy as getting away on skies for that matter. I have been charging the steeps lately so I feel these adventures are in the "coming soon" category.
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Very adventurous you guys are where is this lake. Too bad on the big one If your like me it probably made you sick to your stomach when you couldn't do nothing about it,
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[quote danielc]Very adventurous you guys are where is this lake. Too bad on the big one If your like me it probably made you sick to your stomach when you couldn't do nothing about it,[/quote]

It is up Big Cottonwood Canyon and is a 1 mile 790 vertical foot hike one way from the Brighton parking lot. I swear it kind of feels longer. If ya want to go I have extra snowshoes for ya and I'd be happy to take ya up there. The trail isn't easy to follow with snow as it is in the summer time. I might even drill a hole for ya too!

I have trouble sleeping at night just knowing it was my twin that lost that brute. We'd be rantng and raving about how great the fishing was if he would have nailed that fish. I want a re-match but I have not even dared asked when we are headed back again.

Next time we will have the heavy wire hooks. He kept whining on and on about that fish while we were there.
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Thanks for the invite. Some of these lakes and i had no idea Lake Trout wow as for the hike that is involved umm im going to have to pass thats a lot of work. But i hope you go up again and get a hold of one of those big ones. Again Thanks for the invite.
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Did you guys hit the creek too?

I saw more tracks along side the creek just above Jordon Pines and thought is had to be you guys.
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Nope. We do bring the rods along just in case though. I bought a few spinners last night so a trip up there is close to happening.
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