02-27-2008, 04:07 AM
I did horrible!!!! [mad]
I arrived about noon thirty or so. had to get the wife and kids off to a baby shower first. drilled a hole, but i made the mistake of wandering out to 15 to 20 feet of water first...i missed 3 light, light ticks that may have been a fish fart floating by my line. I was using mealies and an assortment of jigs that have produced before on the ice, hell i even tried to use my favorite cast master silver spoon as an attractor to no avail. after 3 hours of gettting teased and drilling two other holes, i gave in and went back to where i could find a wife willing to deliver me a cold, open budweiser. then i made macaroni and ground beef dinner for everyone, because you see i had no fresh trout, or perch, or carp!!!! yes I would have taken a rubber mouth buglefish over NOTHING..LOL. that is the first time DC has skunked me in 5 years, man it stings. maybe ill hit the river next weekend and make up for it with those feisty browns. oh well.
oh I should mention, since i was alone i opted to NOT carry out the fish finder, rubber box (aka sled), rope, seat, anything pretty much that could have made me comfy in my 3 hours of misery. i took my tackle box, 2 coke cans, my rod, my folding seat and a garbage bag to put the seat on to water proof where i knew my buttox would sink into the 6 inches of snow on top of the 13 inches of ice i hand augered through. that was fun, first time i used the auger...THANKS KENT OF N.SL.!!! but anyway i figured the first ice outing for me, better be the roughest...
the sun was out, it was VERY WARM on the ice, no "W" at all, just a slight southern breeze to carry the sound of other people catching fish to my ears. I think at least 3 more weeks of ICE at DC, unless we start to see temps in the 60's in SLC, there will be plenty of hard deck i say thru the last bit of march.
not much to it, but thats my report. im going to eat the mealies i have left over. the fish obviously dont want em.
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I arrived about noon thirty or so. had to get the wife and kids off to a baby shower first. drilled a hole, but i made the mistake of wandering out to 15 to 20 feet of water first...i missed 3 light, light ticks that may have been a fish fart floating by my line. I was using mealies and an assortment of jigs that have produced before on the ice, hell i even tried to use my favorite cast master silver spoon as an attractor to no avail. after 3 hours of gettting teased and drilling two other holes, i gave in and went back to where i could find a wife willing to deliver me a cold, open budweiser. then i made macaroni and ground beef dinner for everyone, because you see i had no fresh trout, or perch, or carp!!!! yes I would have taken a rubber mouth buglefish over NOTHING..LOL. that is the first time DC has skunked me in 5 years, man it stings. maybe ill hit the river next weekend and make up for it with those feisty browns. oh well.
oh I should mention, since i was alone i opted to NOT carry out the fish finder, rubber box (aka sled), rope, seat, anything pretty much that could have made me comfy in my 3 hours of misery. i took my tackle box, 2 coke cans, my rod, my folding seat and a garbage bag to put the seat on to water proof where i knew my buttox would sink into the 6 inches of snow on top of the 13 inches of ice i hand augered through. that was fun, first time i used the auger...THANKS KENT OF N.SL.!!! but anyway i figured the first ice outing for me, better be the roughest...
the sun was out, it was VERY WARM on the ice, no "W" at all, just a slight southern breeze to carry the sound of other people catching fish to my ears. I think at least 3 more weeks of ICE at DC, unless we start to see temps in the 60's in SLC, there will be plenty of hard deck i say thru the last bit of march.
not much to it, but thats my report. im going to eat the mealies i have left over. the fish obviously dont want em.
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