12-18-2021, 03:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 12-18-2021, 03:54 AM by Freakyfisherman.)
(12-18-2021, 02:13 AM)Therapist Wrote: Any of your normal haunts for walleye in open water will be places to look during ice up. HOWEVER !! Finding them during the ice season is the big problem. We have not been able to locate walleye under the ice on a consistent basis here for some reason. Not sure why ?? I have always said that the lack of live bait is one reason, but they ice a bunch of eye's in the Midwest w/o live bait. Not really sure why we are so unsuccessful here. Good luck when there is sufficient ice !!
I have been successful at locating walleyes under the ice. Maybe I am just lucky. At Deer creek, I have pursued them through the ice, and most times I have had success there. At Sulfur creek reservoir in Wyoming, I have had success there through the ice the two times I chased them there. Echo and Starvation have been stingy in my experience. I have heard they are deep in Starvation and I don't want to kill them unless I can eat them. Catching them deeper than my magical depth of 28 ft usually will kill fish caught from the deep water. I haven't tried fishing Oneida narrows in Idaho, but I have caught them there in open water. I have heard some scary stories there of ice having a big gap between the ice layer and the actual water level, so I haven't been too anxious to try there. I haven't tried finding them on Willard bay on the hard deck, nor at Yuba, or at the Bear river on the hard deck, or on Utah lake. So I am hoping that Deer creek freezes up this year, most years it does not and if it does it is usually only for a couple of weeks or so to access my spots there. I might venture over to Wyoming the week after Christmas to catch a few, just depends on getting stuff done for the business. Good luck on your quest.
Gabe