12-31-2007, 10:44 PM
My brother and I went last Thursday, upstream of Coalville. There was too much ice and slush floating in the river. 3 feet of ice on the edges of the river. Any cast at all would land on ice or slush and ride, not even sinking at all. I put on 3 sinkers instead of 1. It didn't help much. Three hours later we each had a fish half way to the net. Ice was on the bottom and coming loose, then floating to the top. it made any flowing water dark and dirty. Temp. around 22. It was more of an exercise of dipping ice candles. Every ten minutes we had to de-ice lines, rod eyes, reels, even the flies. I wasn't cold, but fishing was very tough. Ive never had to fight ice like that before. That water must have been close to 32 degrees. Hope not to scare you off, just giving you some info. It was still fun to get out and see something new.
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