12-05-2004, 06:59 AM
[cool]I FINALLY made it out to Scofield at about 3:30 for the late afternoon bite. My relatives had a bunch of errands to run this morning. Next time I'll meet them at the lake.[
] We had a great time however, as it was their first time to experience the joy that is hard water fishing. Scofield didn't dissapoint them. When we got there it was nice, 'cause there was only two other parties in my favorite area. Gotta love that
] We talked to the folks next to us, and they'd been there since 10:30 and had 26 fish caught by then. They had a fishfinder and told us it was 14 feet deep there, and that they'd been out further, and all around our area and that was the deepest they could find, but hey, at least it was deeper than where everybody else on the board could find[
] (if any bft members wanna know where this is, send me a p.m.-not tellin' the lurkers).
Anyhooters, it was quite slow when we first got there, which had me concerned. Wanted to be a good guide and all, so they had a good first time on the ice. After about 15-20 minutes my bro in law finally got a bite. After that it slowly picked up, and I managed to land 3 'bows and missed about 3, biggest was 17 inches and smallest was about 12. My dad in law and bro in law had several bites but didn't quite set the hook in time, but still had a blast. They are hooked on ice fishing now, and see why I go out there and freeze my bagonias off! For some reason, I wasn't getting bites on my usual killer (white watta cricket w/waxie & anchovie smelly jelly) so I switched to my second favorite which is a no-brainer for those that have ever cut open the stomachs of the big ones in Scofield, and that was a Berkley 1 inch power nymph in crawdad smoke/orange color. Tipped it with a waxie and crawdad smelly jelly, and from there on, I had great success for the little amount of time we had left. Sorry I didn't get on the radio, I was too busy trying to get my fam into the fish, and we only had two hours to do it!
Lookin forward to getting back out there soon, only for at least 5 hours next time.
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] We had a great time however, as it was their first time to experience the joy that is hard water fishing. Scofield didn't dissapoint them. When we got there it was nice, 'cause there was only two other parties in my favorite area. Gotta love that![] We talked to the folks next to us, and they'd been there since 10:30 and had 26 fish caught by then. They had a fishfinder and told us it was 14 feet deep there, and that they'd been out further, and all around our area and that was the deepest they could find, but hey, at least it was deeper than where everybody else on the board could find[] (if any bft members wanna know where this is, send me a p.m.-not tellin' the lurkers). Anyhooters, it was quite slow when we first got there, which had me concerned. Wanted to be a good guide and all, so they had a good first time on the ice. After about 15-20 minutes my bro in law finally got a bite. After that it slowly picked up, and I managed to land 3 'bows and missed about 3, biggest was 17 inches and smallest was about 12. My dad in law and bro in law had several bites but didn't quite set the hook in time, but still had a blast. They are hooked on ice fishing now, and see why I go out there and freeze my bagonias off! For some reason, I wasn't getting bites on my usual killer (white watta cricket w/waxie & anchovie smelly jelly) so I switched to my second favorite which is a no-brainer for those that have ever cut open the stomachs of the big ones in Scofield, and that was a Berkley 1 inch power nymph in crawdad smoke/orange color. Tipped it with a waxie and crawdad smelly jelly, and from there on, I had great success for the little amount of time we had left. Sorry I didn't get on the radio, I was too busy trying to get my fam into the fish, and we only had two hours to do it!
Lookin forward to getting back out there soon, only for at least 5 hours next time.
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