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Glad to hear the report, were you catching perch or trout? Wondering if people are still getting into the jumbo perch.
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The perch are tight lipped but I limited out on rainbows on Friday 16 to 18 inchers on the south end suspended 12 feet down and a 23 inch brown Saturday just off the rail trail in 25 feet of water.
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02-27-2020, 10:23 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-27-2020, 10:26 PM by dubob.)
You forgot to mention that the edges are not conducive to getting on and off with a snowmobile or quad. The edge ice was just barely strong enough to walk on at the boat ramp. The edge new ice was at least 10' wide so I didn't even try to get on with my snowmobile. So I went to Easy Canyon and found the same conditions there; walk on only.
I previewed this post before posting and see that it considers me a newbee with 0 posts. Yeah; right!
I also see that I no longer have a signature line attached to my post.
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Well I am 350 and where I get on is plenty thick for a machine but isn't allowed because I am nowhere near the boat ramp
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(02-28-2020, 12:37 AM)Lipnrip Wrote: Well I am 350 and where I get on is plenty thick for a machine but isn't allowed because I am nowhere near the boat ramp
Understood. The only place to legally launch a powered machine is in the main boat launch area. Not being one to flaunt the LEOs, I chose not to launch and thought to mention it so other law abiding souls would know the conditions.
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Did you try cruising to the north a little on the beach? Echo allows driving on the beach in the park.
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(02-28-2020, 03:21 AM)Lipnrip Wrote: Did you try cruising to the north a little on the beach? Echo allows driving on the beach in the park.
I did not. I have a snowmobile and the shore area below the parking area was bare of snow as far north as I could see. I always launch from the parking area and wouldn't drive my snowmobile or drag my sled over that very rocky shore area. Also, most of that shore area is a very gentle sloping area which makes the weak ice edge strip 10 or more feet wide. I have not been to the extreme north end of that beach, but from what I have seen from the highway looking at it, it appears to be the same slope as near the ramp. Anyway, from what I saw on Tuesday, I wouldn't recommend launching a snowmobile at all at Echo. If I had a quad, it might be feasible to access the ice with it from the extreme north end of the main launch area, but I have no first hand knowledge of that area. I am not telling others what they can or can not do at Echo. I'm just reporting what I observed and making a recommendation to others based on my own observations. My hope for all is to go, do, and enjoy the resource to the best of your abilities. And please be safe while doing so.
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Photos now added to main post
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(02-29-2020, 07:17 AM)Lipnrip Wrote: Photos now added to main post
Hey, those aren't fish; they're trout.
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None taken. I noticed the same thing when I posted, so let's try it this way to see if it separates it.