01-30-2007, 01:47 AM
well ocean this is my thought on this and it's just that my thought's.. the perch are allredy over running the lake. there numbers are nothing i have ever seen before in there. and thats even going back to the good old 80"s when it was at it's best!
YUBA was the first place i ever ice fished after the dwr made it year around fishing.. i have fished there for a long time. never in that whole time did i ever catch a perch on the ice in the spot i was in the other day! that is why i thought we might have a chance of a rainbow there.. and if you look at the pic's i posted we were not useing perch jig's
at one time i put one of my splake jig's on it's a 5" tube with a 3" stinger hook comeing out the back and put a whole minnow on it and still cought perch!! i even put power bait on a jig trying to get away from them and still cought perch! so to say there is alot of perch in that lake is a big under statment!!
the biggest problem i can see comeing up is next year is not going to be a good water year inless we get some snow on the mountins and soon!!
i can see that with lack of water and so many perch packed in there and the carp makeing a big comeback.. there could easyley be a perch crash befor the walleye even get started on them!
just my thought..
oh yeah the ice was 10 to 12in's with 3 to 4 in's of snow on it..
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YUBA was the first place i ever ice fished after the dwr made it year around fishing.. i have fished there for a long time. never in that whole time did i ever catch a perch on the ice in the spot i was in the other day! that is why i thought we might have a chance of a rainbow there.. and if you look at the pic's i posted we were not useing perch jig's
at one time i put one of my splake jig's on it's a 5" tube with a 3" stinger hook comeing out the back and put a whole minnow on it and still cought perch!! i even put power bait on a jig trying to get away from them and still cought perch! so to say there is alot of perch in that lake is a big under statment!!
the biggest problem i can see comeing up is next year is not going to be a good water year inless we get some snow on the mountins and soon!!
i can see that with lack of water and so many perch packed in there and the carp makeing a big comeback.. there could easyley be a perch crash befor the walleye even get started on them!
just my thought..
oh yeah the ice was 10 to 12in's with 3 to 4 in's of snow on it..
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