12-28-2014, 08:03 PM
It has been a long time since I posted, almost two years according to my profile. So welcome back to myself.
Anyways, my brother and I snuck up to the gorge on Friday. We were worried about ice since there hasn't been any decent solid reports but decided to risk it anyways. After a late start and a few stops we arrived at the launch close to seven just as a 4 wheeler was coming off the ice.
So the ice is plenty thick (solid 8) and has been I'm sure for a couple weeks regardless of warm weather. (thinking the locals were just trying to keep it off the radar). Fished it from about seven to midnight and only iced one burbot. Got back to the truck, too lazy to set the tent up so we just slept in the cab of the Dogde.
Woke up the next morning and drove down to see how far the ice makes it down and ran into open water maybe a mile down, or less.
Got back on the ice about ten in the morning and fished til about two icing only one rainbow. Back to truck for a catnap and hit the ice at 4 to see if we could hook into more burbot but were unsuccessful, but did have another rainbow at the hole only to snap off.
Leaving, we stopped at cruel jacks for a burger. Talking to the waitress sounds like some of the locals don't know it iced up either. Asked us how the fishing was, said her and her husband were gonna take the boat to Firehole Sunday, we just laughed and she didn't believe us when we said there was 8 inches of solid ice.
Anyways, that's my report, and based on talking with the others, no one did much better
Summary: Solid Ice, slow fishing.
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Anyways, my brother and I snuck up to the gorge on Friday. We were worried about ice since there hasn't been any decent solid reports but decided to risk it anyways. After a late start and a few stops we arrived at the launch close to seven just as a 4 wheeler was coming off the ice.
So the ice is plenty thick (solid 8) and has been I'm sure for a couple weeks regardless of warm weather. (thinking the locals were just trying to keep it off the radar). Fished it from about seven to midnight and only iced one burbot. Got back to the truck, too lazy to set the tent up so we just slept in the cab of the Dogde.
Woke up the next morning and drove down to see how far the ice makes it down and ran into open water maybe a mile down, or less.
Got back on the ice about ten in the morning and fished til about two icing only one rainbow. Back to truck for a catnap and hit the ice at 4 to see if we could hook into more burbot but were unsuccessful, but did have another rainbow at the hole only to snap off.
Leaving, we stopped at cruel jacks for a burger. Talking to the waitress sounds like some of the locals don't know it iced up either. Asked us how the fishing was, said her and her husband were gonna take the boat to Firehole Sunday, we just laughed and she didn't believe us when we said there was 8 inches of solid ice.
Anyways, that's my report, and based on talking with the others, no one did much better
Summary: Solid Ice, slow fishing.
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