Just like RP a week or so ago, Echo has slowed down to a crawl.  Perch of any size few & far between.  Dug in S of the ramp at 10:15, staying until 12:30, fishing 42-50'.  Got one 8"er and half-doz 4"ers.  Fish were on the bottom and shadowing my baits up & down, but few takers, and the lightest bite at that when they did.  Walked over to another angler on the way in who had over a doz nice fatties.  Said they came thru at 32' from 8-10am.  Tried the new state park on the drive back, fishing those 28-30' community flats.  Just the tiniest of bites & not one hook-up.  Two other guys 50 yds away had one 10"er between them.  Another gorgeous bluebird day, 13-deg when I out on, 30 when I got off.  Ice is 9".  All sun & no wind.  It's either go to RP or get to Echo before sunrise.

We are thinking about fishing DC tomorrow and would like to know if anyone has been by there today to check out the current conditions at the main state park ramp.  

We are going to be fishing from our tubes so we are looking for open water with shoreline access to launch.

Thanks for any information anyone has.  We don't want to drive for two hours to find out that everything is iced up.

Repeat of Facebook post, but sounds like they caught Cisco today. They didn’t say if it was on the Rock pile or a beach but said they caught some today. Later Jeff

Disappointment today at last Thurs. "Hot Spot"..at the South campground side entry point..Way more tracks all around this area, so maybe it was hit too hard over the weekend..one other guy came out after me, and he moved around also before setting up his tent..he was a bit further North, and had caught a carp when he came back to chat awhile..hope he found 'em..I moved around a few different spots also, just catching dinks...but even they were tight lipped today..I started at 1000, and finally back in tent at noon, a nice school of 9 to 10"ers came thru, and I iced 4 of those pretty fast..then slow, slow, slow again, and I scared up only 4 more quality perch before I pulled stakes at 2 PM.. 1 at 8.5", 7 at 9 to 10". I hope the lack of fish today was the result of higher activity over the weekend, and maybe they will be back in a few days..Guluk..

Hi all, I haven't been to Deep Creek for several years, just wondering if the trout there still have the mites or whatever they were under their skin. I would like some fillets for the smoker with skin on but prefer some without the mites. Used to eat many of them before but not skin on, mites would come off with the skin. There were some really nice trout on there then. TIA

Check out this link! It's a homemade "snowdog" but I think it would be challenging for the state to license this.  
Link:   Facebook
Might be worth trying in the future instead of an actual "snowdog".

I accidently deleted the entire thread when I was trying to edit and clean clean up my response to the initial post. To the initial poster and the couple people that replied please repost on this string, again I am really sorry.

My response to the post of lack of post on Matua was:

My guess is Mantua is really tough this year after the big fish kill last year, unless you want to catch 12" slimer trout that where planted after the kill. Hopefully the few surviving Bass, Bluegill and Perch will benefit from fewer mouths to feed and get large and replenish the lake for better fishing in the coming years.

Anyone seeing any white bass in any of the harbors yet?

On January 15 there was a post saying that Deer Creek was still open water. We've had nearly two weeks of cold weather since then. Has anyone seen ice forming on Deer Creek yet?

Here is my starter to get me on the board. Now that I have something to show, I'll get a spreadsheet posted soon. 

Starvation Reservoir
January 25, 2025

Rainbow trout - 17"