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island park dam
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12-21-2014, 02:13 PM
Hi guys, I'm new to the forum. With Henry's Lake being slow, we went to the Island Park Dam. We caught 4 in 4 hrs. The Sad part is that we did better than everyone we talked to. On the bright side...one was 5 lbs.

I want to find the salmon there. any tips?
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12-21-2014, 04:22 PM
How much ice was there at the Dam?
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12-21-2014, 04:34 PM
Welcome to the forum and thanks for the report .
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12-22-2014, 12:44 AM
there was 10 inches of solid ice and about 6 inches of snow on top. it started getting slushy around 3:00. I can't decide, Henry's or Island Park for Christmas eve]. the fish fight better at Island park.
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12-22-2014, 12:49 AM
Thanks for the report and welcome to the board. Congrats on the 5 pounder! I have actually had a good day at IP this winter. PM me if you ever want to compare notes.

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12-22-2014, 09:02 PM
Do you have any tips on what to use? I'm heading there to try ice fishing for the first time.
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12-23-2014, 01:25 AM
We just used a bit of everything and tpiped with worm. We didn't do all that great either.
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12-23-2014, 02:07 PM
We fished there yesterday. Got there at first light. Found 5" of slush on the ice. Stepped in other peoples holes that were covered in fresh snow. A little wet and dangerous. We caught 8 between 7:30-8:30. They wanted it moving. Didn't catch any on a dead stick. At 8:30 it ended like a light switch being turned off. I could still see them on the vexilar but no takers. Went home at 10:00.

P.s. They didn't want jigs with mealworms only white jigs tipped with night crawler.

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12-23-2014, 06:39 PM
Thanks for the info. 8 fish in an hour sounds pretty good to me.
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12-23-2014, 08:36 PM
Did you get any big ones ? Thanks for the report .
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12-23-2014, 08:48 PM
Sounds like a fun morning. Any salmon?
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12-24-2014, 05:16 AM
The biggest was 18". Four of them were like footballs and the four others were more recent stockers. No salmon. The slush was so deep I couldnt move around very well to look for them.
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12-24-2014, 06:06 AM
It got down to zero last night , hope it froze the slush . Thanks again for the information .
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