01-18-2014, 05:03 PM
My brother and I went to Flaming Gorge Thursday afternoon. Found an area near Lost Dog access coming from the 530 route (through Green River). We prepared to stay overnight on the ice and packed accordingly. Overnight temps dropped down into the teens. But with the subzero rated sleeping bags we took the stay was more than warm. Mustering up the will to wake up and get dressed the next morning with that cold air around was another story.
The burbot started biting around 5:30pm and the bite died at about 7pm along the shoreline. We drilled several holes at the shoreline along a 75 yard stretch, each were at 10-20 FOW. We set up tip ups with radical glow blue, yellow and pink tubes 3-4" in length with 3/8oz white or glow jig heads and sweetened the presentation with sucker meat. On our jig lines we had the ever popular white 4" single tail curly grub with 3/8oz jig head tipped with sucker. Hanging cut bait on the tip ups was the ticket. We caught 17 total on the tip ups and another 8 while jigging and waiting for tip up flags to pop.
When the bite was dead we packed into the shelter to drill a few holes; discovered that we were over 35 FOW. We stopped fishing at 11pm. We managed to bring in a few more stragglers, landing another 6 burbot. There were also a handful of burbot that we got impatient with and didn't align to the hole correctly, which aided their escape.
Friday morning we stopped in Manila for some breakfast and talked to three Utah fisherman who spent Thursday night up near Firehole fishing until 10:30pm. They managed to land a total of 48 burbot.
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The burbot started biting around 5:30pm and the bite died at about 7pm along the shoreline. We drilled several holes at the shoreline along a 75 yard stretch, each were at 10-20 FOW. We set up tip ups with radical glow blue, yellow and pink tubes 3-4" in length with 3/8oz white or glow jig heads and sweetened the presentation with sucker meat. On our jig lines we had the ever popular white 4" single tail curly grub with 3/8oz jig head tipped with sucker. Hanging cut bait on the tip ups was the ticket. We caught 17 total on the tip ups and another 8 while jigging and waiting for tip up flags to pop.
When the bite was dead we packed into the shelter to drill a few holes; discovered that we were over 35 FOW. We stopped fishing at 11pm. We managed to bring in a few more stragglers, landing another 6 burbot. There were also a handful of burbot that we got impatient with and didn't align to the hole correctly, which aided their escape.
Friday morning we stopped in Manila for some breakfast and talked to three Utah fisherman who spent Thursday night up near Firehole fishing until 10:30pm. They managed to land a total of 48 burbot.
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