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Uinta ice 12/6/24
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Headed out solo this morning to look for some ice to drill through.
Pointed my truck towards the Uintas and was greeted with crystal clear blue skies, a very nice change from duck hunting yesterday in the thick GSL fog.
Drilled through about 8” of ice with line in water about 9:45am.
Couple of 8-9” Brookies at first, small but pretty.
Then Tigers and Bows started to show up.
Sonar activity almost non-stop.
Don’t you love it when a fish attacks your jig over and over until hooked!
About 9/10 fish were like this.
Lost track of fish released.
Chartreuse Atomic Teaser, tipped with 1/2” crawler bits.
I like those Teasers but they are fragile. I never lost one and the more it got chewed up it seemed like the fish liked it better.
Five or six times I had to use pliers to bend hook back to designed shape and metal never broke.
Stayed at first hole I drilled and never moved.
Was in a whopping 7.6fow.
Some fish attacking lure only a foot or two under ice cap and following it down till I got barb in them.
My knees really started to hurt so at 12:50 I set alarm for a 2 pm ‘game over’ alert.
I decided to start fish count again after setting alarm and in next 70 minutes released 23 fish.
This was a quantity over quality, although a few of the fish were pretty nice, trip.
I must have caught 70-80 fish so quite a nice trip!
Alarm went off at 2pm and I immediately packed up to head home to beat traffic (I didn’t…. ).
Be careful on road and do not veer to either side very far.
I had zero problems but I could tell others were not quite so lucky.
Edit* Site will not attach pics for some reason?
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hey Shane you almost caught enough in one trip to make up for the season you won't be able to fish this year.. Great job and glad you had an excellent trip... Thanks for sharing the fun with us... Wonder what is up with the picture deal.. Pat posted his a different way than usual and I could finally open a picture on my computer for a change.. So hopefully we can figure out how he posted them.. Thanks J
When things get stressful think I'll go fish'en and worry about it tomorrow!
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