04-15-2004, 06:23 PM
Sorry it took so long to post this but life is busy sometimes. We got up to scofield on tuesday. Got there about sun up and fished the west beach as far north as we could go (right at the fence line to the private property). I could see the rock pile you had mentioned. I decided to take my son and my dad along so I left the float tube home. We only caught 3 rainbows (12-14 inches) from the bank in about 4 hours of fishing. I tried everything from a nightcrawler, nightcrawler and marshmellow, salmon eggs, nightcrawler with a little powerbait (red, rainbow, green, yellow), jakes lure, black wooley bugger dragged slowly behind a bubble. You get the point, tried lots of things with little success. My brother did take his tube and he did much better and landed 4 nice fish (3 cuts and 1 bow) between 14-17 inches on a brown leach pattern. He was able to fish some areas with some structure that are holding fish (like near the rock point). I think since all the ice has come off the fish have moved out of the sandy beach area where the water first warmed up to some places with structure and to spawn. There were plenty of retired anglers fishing the east and west beaches with limited success as far as I could tell. I think the places people were catching fish last week at first ice off are not nearly as productive now. Find some structure in fairly shallow water and you'll find some fish. The rock point should still be good. Let me know how you do on thursday. It might be time to get out the boat and hit the island and a few other places. Good luck. Fish on!
Bigcat
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