Uinta ice 12/6/24 (Pic problem fixed!)

[MrShane]

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?