Bountiful Pond

[FlyFishingMoose]

Is there safe ice on Bountiful Pond.

How do you pull up ice kitties? I know they really slow down once it gets cold but man, they still gotts eat don't they?
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[Shrimpboy]

If there is safe ice, then I bet there might be a white bass bite.
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[chefwhofishes]

I am heading to SLC tomorrow afternoon, I will swing by and check water situation.
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[moby_dick]

I drive by there almost everyday on my way out to Farmington Bay, and I doubt it's very safe. One time about 3 years ago I thought it looked safe, and on the edges it was. There was about 5 inches, but the current on the north side keeps it from freezing up very much over there. I tried to walk on that, and it began to crack. It doesn't look any more promising this year, but if it is, I'm sure you could pull a couple trout and maybe some perch out of there.
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[nomoose]

I stopped by there tonight just as the sun was going down. I could see that there has been people on the ice but it looked like most had been kids. I didn't try to walk on it. but as I was about to leave some guys pulled up and said they were going out on it to try there new ice shed the just got today. they said they had been on it but not fished it yet they said to stay to the south because the ice was better. they don't know how thick the ice was just that it held them(if you added them together they might make one moose) there was a bit of open water where the river comes in and I saw a few trout there.

If I was going to try to fish it. I think I would walk down to the docks and drill there to see how the ice looked first. I would have done that today but I still need to get a new auger. hope this helps. Oh also if you try for the cats there on the ice use worms and try to keep them as warm as you can until you put them on the hook and replace often.
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[moby_dick]

I'll stop by tomorrow when I'm down there and check it then as well. If it is thick enough, I think it would be fun.
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[FishFearMe]

As for THEY HAVE TO EAT DONT THEY..........

Acctully cats can go for long periods of no food. and water. My buddy got one from willow ponds when they first opend and took it home. Tried like hell to kill it with the bat and head thing and it just kept coming back. He left it to die (new fisherman) and came back 3 hours later. picked it up and it was still a kicking.

When DZ and my father got me in to fishing I started to read allot about them on the net. Those big kitty down south....brazil and what not acctully can detect when low water is coming and as a last ditch effort on life will burry themselfs in the mud up to 6 feet down on rare ocasion and kinda go in to a state of hibernation (however you spell that) and have been know to come back as long as 6 months later. now this is just stuff I read on the web and it all said scientific but I did not see any school or biolagy groups names on there. Mabye the Wise Tube Dude could correct me.
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[nomoose]

I think your right about the cats down south I remeber reading somthing like that when I was at shchool up to USU going to be a fish cop (that didn't pan out seems you dont have as much time to fish as I thought)so I think your right
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[FlyFishingMoose]

I've seen somthing on National Geographic about cats in the mud during drought conditions in Africa, frogs too!
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