10-28-2020, 02:21 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-28-2020, 03:02 AM by fast_randy.)
I went up there this morning. My favorite spot, just past Staley Springs, only had just under 2 inches of ice. I turned around and headed home. But just as I was driving back by that parking place on the far North side, I noticed the ice looked good. I had fished that spot years ago. Four of us never got a bite. And in all my ice fishing trips up there after that, I never once saw anyone ice fishing there. It's real shallow and lots of under growth. But I turned around and went and checked the ice and found a good 5 inches. So I went out there.
I'm sure I was the first and only one on the lake. I got on the ice around 8. It was 18 degrees. I walked out 100 yards and the ice was getting thinner at 4 inches so I stopped and fished there. It wasn't as good as I expected it to be, but I got some nice ones. First a 2 lb. cutthroat. Then a 2 lb. brookie, and another 2 lb. brook, then 3 lb cutbow that was 20 inches.
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On the way home I drove down to the State boat launch on the South side to see if I was the only one on the ice. It is a mess on that side of the lake. That last storm blew hard from the North, and it is hard to describe the ice boulder build up that is there and as far as you can see. It's basically unfishable. But with the warm weather, it will be in the 50's up there this week, it needs to melt and start over.
It was only 5 feet deep where I was. Always before when I ice fish Henry's, because of the two fish limit, it isn't long before I have two fish caught that are bleeding and I won't throw back. So this time I tried circle hooks thinking they would catch in corner of the mouth and I could release more of them unharmed. Well that didn't work. Maybe you need more line of something. But the fish were not all that active. It might be the bright moon, or just not that good of a spot. But I had four poles out and unless I was holding it and jigging it I didn't get a bite. I used a spoon or castmaster and 14 inches of leader and circle hook with red sided shinner.
I'm sure I was the first and only one on the lake. I got on the ice around 8. It was 18 degrees. I walked out 100 yards and the ice was getting thinner at 4 inches so I stopped and fished there. It wasn't as good as I expected it to be, but I got some nice ones. First a 2 lb. cutthroat. Then a 2 lb. brookie, and another 2 lb. brook, then 3 lb cutbow that was 20 inches.
On the way home I drove down to the State boat launch on the South side to see if I was the only one on the ice. It is a mess on that side of the lake. That last storm blew hard from the North, and it is hard to describe the ice boulder build up that is there and as far as you can see. It's basically unfishable. But with the warm weather, it will be in the 50's up there this week, it needs to melt and start over.
It was only 5 feet deep where I was. Always before when I ice fish Henry's, because of the two fish limit, it isn't long before I have two fish caught that are bleeding and I won't throw back. So this time I tried circle hooks thinking they would catch in corner of the mouth and I could release more of them unharmed. Well that didn't work. Maybe you need more line of something. But the fish were not all that active. It might be the bright moon, or just not that good of a spot. But I had four poles out and unless I was holding it and jigging it I didn't get a bite. I used a spoon or castmaster and 14 inches of leader and circle hook with red sided shinner.