Scofield

[ProfessorChaos]

Headed to Scofield tomorrow and I'm not super familiar with the lake.
Anybody willing to part with some advice?
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[whipper-snapper]

I haven't caught any monster fish from there...yet. But the usual stuff typically does the job. I'll use 1/16 jigs tipped with all the fixins' and it'll usually get them to bite.

I was there early ice season and we caught a few, nothing big--all were slot cutts to boot. Try messaging MasterDad, he's pretty familiar with the lake.

Hope any of this helps, let me know how ya do.
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[ProfessorChaos]

Thanks I'll try that. I appreciate the info. I was there about a week ago for a couple hours, only got about 6 bites and for whatever reason I couldn't hook any of them. I'll keep you posted.
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[duckdog1us]

little gear mostly will catch little fish
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[whipper-snapper]

How deep were you fishing? When I can't get good hook ups I'll go smaller and dead-stick it, unless they like the movement.
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[Gemcityslayer]

[quote whipper-snapper]I haven't caught any monster fish from there...yet. But the usual stuff typically does the job. I'll use 1/16 jigs tipped with all the fixins' and it'll usually get them to bite.

I was there early ice season and we caught a few, nothing big--all were slot cutts to boot. Try messaging MasterDad, he's pretty familiar with the lake.

Hope any of this helps, let me know how ya do.[/quote]

Did you see my thoughts on the "Tiger Trout" thread?

The smaller stuff will work great for the smaller trout, if you want a chance at one of the hogs in there... fish something big (tube jigs in particular).
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[ProfessorChaos]

Is there a certain spot in the water column where you guys usually find the fish? The only time I was there we were in about 15 feet of water fishing on the bottom and also about half way up.
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[Jackalope]

I usually fish in 15-20' FOW of water. For some weird reason 17' FOW was always my magic number. But i haven't caught anything big either. [laugh]
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[whipper-snapper]

I've caught big fish on little gear. 99% of getting the big ones is luck! Maybe I'm just not too lucky at that lake [cool]
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[ProfessorChaos]

Awesome. Thanks again. Hopefully tomorrow night I'll have some good pics to share!
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[duckdog1us]

i disagree if big fish are there and you are not getting them at least now and then your doing something wrong !!
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[Gemcityslayer]

Yeah, big fish will occasionally eat small offerings. Some people think it might be because when they were younger, they ate small things...and that memory or instinct is still in them somewhat even as they get older.

But if you did a study to see how often the big trout (Tigers) eat small meals.... it would be few and far between. Most of their diet is other fish. So small jigs tipped with waxies and mealies just isn't going to work as well.
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[BoBooty]

ProfessorChaos,

Hope you get this before you take off this morning. I was there this past weekend, and got in to some decent sized Tigers (4-5 lb. range). I was fishing the West side of the Lake below the rocks South of the dam. I was fishing in shallow (10 FOW or less) just about 10 yards or so from shore. When I moved into any deeper water I couldn't keep the 12 inch Cutts off. I used a white tube jig (fairly large size) tipped with chub meat. All the bigger Tigers I caught were only a foot or so under the ice suspended and not on the bottom where I assumed they'd be. Good luck to you, and I hope you have some success. I only fished for about an hour between 9 and 10AM and caught around 10 Tigers. Let us know how you do!
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[ProfessorChaos]

Wow, thank you BoBooty. I really appreciate that information. I have not left yet. My fishing companion ended up getting a job interview for this morning... It might be a good thing though. We've got almost 3 in. of snow here in Sandy already, I can only imagine what a mess hwy 6 is. If we still go it will be around 11 or so. But I don't have 4 whl drive today, so the trip may have to wait until tomorrow.
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[Kent]

[quote BoBooty]

I was fishing the West side of the Lake below the rocks South of the dam.

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I think you meant to type "East side of the Lake..."
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[BoBooty]

Very true...I did mean the East side. It was an early morning
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[ProfessorChaos]

I figured you meant the east side. Thanks again.
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[ProfessorChaos]

Well whipper-snapper, the verdict is in. Final result is two tired fisherman, some icy roads and perhaps some wasted opportunities.
We ended up getting there about 12:30 or 1. Initially fished the inlet near the damn and had no luck. We moved farther south and things finally picked up a bit, but not a lot. They weren't hitting the little white tubes so I put on a jigging/ice rapala and immediately got hit. I couldn't hook them so I switched to the same jig in a smaller size and hooked one immediately. It was a whole 12 inches of rainbow trout! Haha, still fun though. Then I missed about 7-8 more good bites. I don't know what I was doing wrong, Ive never had a problem hooking fish except during my 2 trips to Scofield.
I will return to the lake and hopefully leave victorious!
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[whipper-snapper]

Professor,

I bet you guys slept good after that trip! Scofield is not one of my favorite spots because the same reason you ran into. Beats a sharp stick in the eye, eh?

How was the weather? It was really windy in Provo yesterday, coming right out of the North.

Any prospects for another whack at it?
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[ProfessorChaos]

Yeah it was a little tiring, haha. I really don't understand why the fish that have been biting my line there are so hard to hook. I'm going to assume they're just small ones I'm running into... Either that or they're extremely cautious after being caught and released so much.

As for the weather: At about the hwy 89 turnoff going up hwy 6 it started to get progressively less awesome. It was barely snowing, but really blowing. Obviously this created drifts and slushy/icy patches. The rest of hwy 6 was ok, but the road to Scofield was fairly icy. however it was nothing a little caution and patience couldn't get you through. Also keep in mind I was driving a Lincoln MKZ, so a truck probably would have been a lot less unnerving. Oh and once we got away from the dam inlet the wind mostly went away and the sun was out.

I don't know when I'll go back again, but I'm certainly not opposed to it. I'm headed to Flaming Gorge this weekend to try and get on some burbot or at least some decent sized rainbows. My schedule this afternoon just got WIDE open, so cruising up to Rockport or Jordanelle has crossed my mind.
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