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This post is from our New Year's day fishing. Thought I should post it since it was the best day I have ever had on Minersville though the hard deck. Took my cousins whom have never ice fished. We had a blast. Caught 20+ trout in the 16"-20" range. One of the best catches was this cutthroat.


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It put up a nice fight but as soon as it got to the hole it spit this out!

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I measured it at 6.5" without its head. The cutthroat was 20" and so it consumed a 7-8" trout. I didn't know if that is a good sign that the chub population is down or if trout just tastes better. We had a great day but I was bummed we didn't catch any keepers (>22"). As I have talked with others and from our experience. There are a lot in the 18" range but not many keepers. Just wondering if that is from two years of low water levels or the big fish are just being smarter. Last year though I saw more big fish caught but haven't seen that this year. This year seems more fish are being caught with a bigger average just not the top dogs. Maybe PBH or wormandbobber know more on this.
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Great day for sure![cool]
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Thanks for the report. That lake can grow some big, healthy fish.
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All are average this year. I went there a few times in the fall with my boat, most were in the 16-18 inch range. I also went ice fishing there about 2 weeks ago with the same results. You're right, about 2 years ago if I did catch a fish I could expect it to be 20"+. However, this year there seems to be more fish, at a smaller size.
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Thanks for replying Karltime. Hopefully if we can get a little more water storage the growth will go up but very pleased with the healthiness of fish. I was worried with these lower water depths they would be skinny.
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