Fished Tuesday at Rockport on the upper end, only 3.5 inches of ice, but all clear solid ice not an issue and by now as other reports are stating ice should be fine . Many cold days ahead so should continue to get thicker. BUT, Always verify before going out if it’s a new area ice often is not uniform. Be safe!
Had to move just a couple times to find them but once you did it was pretty much every drop, with only a couple short lulls when fish would move off for just a few minutes then game on again. Sometimes a move of only 30 feet made a difference. We fished water 26 feet deep and near the bottom for best action. It was easy to let the little ones go, they all swam away easily no trauma. Biggest was 10-7/8 I only wanted to fill et a batch for fish tacos, so I kept 15 all 10” plus. I let go way more than I kept and let lots of fillet size go. We fished from about 10am-3pm . Chilly early pretty nice later when sun was not blocked.
Fun day great fishing. Caught 8 rainbows in the group of us (4). Trout were coming through about 10 feet down, if you reel up to them most of the time they will hit most anything. Hang a small jig tipped with wax worm at 10 feet on second rod and you will likely catch some trout.
I had one school of fish move by at 10 feet I reeled up into but no takers thinking maybe kokanee? Last year a guy next to me caught a 16 inch koke.
Good luck tight lines!
Had to move just a couple times to find them but once you did it was pretty much every drop, with only a couple short lulls when fish would move off for just a few minutes then game on again. Sometimes a move of only 30 feet made a difference. We fished water 26 feet deep and near the bottom for best action. It was easy to let the little ones go, they all swam away easily no trauma. Biggest was 10-7/8 I only wanted to fill et a batch for fish tacos, so I kept 15 all 10” plus. I let go way more than I kept and let lots of fillet size go. We fished from about 10am-3pm . Chilly early pretty nice later when sun was not blocked.
Fun day great fishing. Caught 8 rainbows in the group of us (4). Trout were coming through about 10 feet down, if you reel up to them most of the time they will hit most anything. Hang a small jig tipped with wax worm at 10 feet on second rod and you will likely catch some trout.
I had one school of fish move by at 10 feet I reeled up into but no takers thinking maybe kokanee? Last year a guy next to me caught a 16 inch koke.
Good luck tight lines!
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