Hit Montpelier on Sunday. The ice was good about 6" and the edges were not soft. Fishing was good as usual. We caught 1 coke, 1 brown, and 75+ perch. None of the perch had much size but they keep the kid from getting board.
There was only 2 other groups on the ice in the morning. In the afternoon it was just us, nice and quiet.
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Nice report, thanks for sharing it with us. Was there any size to the koke, were you seeing many coming threw?
A friend and I were up in the Bear lake valley yesterday and were thinking about heading over to Montpelier to check it out but ended up fishing that pond in Garden city.
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The coke was just over 12'. I caught it shortly after I moved to that hole. I didn't even set up my flasher and look for them because the perch were biting so much.
I did have 4 jawjackers set up about 10 feet down but just a couple of bites and no hook up on it. I was fishing on the bottom and it was a bonus fish. They are harder to catch when they are cruising the bottom because all the perch around.
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It seems that lake goes in cycles. A couple of years ago, my son and his friend caught limits of kokes there but I haven't heard much about them since then. !2" is a good size for that place.
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