Fishing Forum

I got a late start this morning because I drove all over looking for some bait before I left. I finally just had to give up. (downside to living down town, none of the gas stations have crawlers. The Sinclair at Kimball Jct was out too).

I parked at the first bathroom turnoff you see after the one by the dam. I couldn't see any sign of anyone having fished on that part of the lake and when I got down I found out why. The ice was only 3 inches thick and very new. It cracked like crazy when I walked on it.

I finally got to fishing at about 8AM. I set up in 33 feet of water and caught a perch right away on a pink shrimpo off the bottom. I cut her up for bait and I was set. The bite came and went. I tried shallower but didn't have any luck. When a school of trout would show up on the finder I would reel up to about 15 feet and usually get a bite. I caught rainbows that were 15-16 incehs that way. At one point I hooked into something really big, but my spool was frozen up and my drag wouldn't let line out. It broke off almost right away.

I ended up catching 15 or so perch. One was a nice 13" toad that somehow managed to get back into my fish finder hole when I had my head turned. DOH!! At 9:45 the bite slowed down to nothing. By 10:30 I had only marked 3 more fish, so I left.

It was a short trip, but fun. I can't help but wonder if I would have done better if I had gone farther south.

-Jack
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[font "Times New Roman"]I saw you fishing by the cliffs. I when to the 2nd restroom at the same time Doug Miller showed up. I fish out in the middle by them. It sound like you got into some bigger fish both Trout and Perch. We didn’t have anything that sizes between 12 of us.[/font]
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Something a little strange....

I kept the first 10 perch that I caught and when I cleaned them, I found out that every single one of them was a female. I thought that was wierd.
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