08-18-2009, 02:00 PM
As long as you bring your permission slip, you are welcomed into our troop!
For other scout masters out there, Flaming Gorge is an excellent idea for an overnighter. We live in Vernal, within an hour we can be on the ice at FG. Obviously most scout masters live futher, but I think it is still a unique and different camp. I work with the 16-18 year old boys and they loved it so much that the 14-15 year olds begged to go. It seemed like we were traveling to FG every weekend of the winter.
We would arrive on the ice about an hour before sundown. Set up camp, tents etc right on the ice. We had our CampChef set up with beans, cooking while we set up camp. Once the tents were up and holes drilled we ate and fished.
I like fishing for burbot because they are not hard to catch and scouts get bored when they are not catching. We learned that our heaviest bites came less than 60 feet from the shore line. In some areas we were fishing less than ten feet from the shore. Recharge your glow jigs often. I bought two clamp lamps, with flourecent lights and rigged them in the ice tent. I used an inverter and a jump start booster box. The light would last a few hours with the battery box. We found that the glow tubes recharged much quicker with the flourecent light.
Most bites were soft, so it kept the boys on their toes. It was not unusual for us to catch 70-100 fish per night. We cooked many of the burbot as we fished. Fresh fish kept us awake!
The boys are talking about it again. They can't wait to get back up to the Gorge.
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For other scout masters out there, Flaming Gorge is an excellent idea for an overnighter. We live in Vernal, within an hour we can be on the ice at FG. Obviously most scout masters live futher, but I think it is still a unique and different camp. I work with the 16-18 year old boys and they loved it so much that the 14-15 year olds begged to go. It seemed like we were traveling to FG every weekend of the winter.
We would arrive on the ice about an hour before sundown. Set up camp, tents etc right on the ice. We had our CampChef set up with beans, cooking while we set up camp. Once the tents were up and holes drilled we ate and fished.
I like fishing for burbot because they are not hard to catch and scouts get bored when they are not catching. We learned that our heaviest bites came less than 60 feet from the shore line. In some areas we were fishing less than ten feet from the shore. Recharge your glow jigs often. I bought two clamp lamps, with flourecent lights and rigged them in the ice tent. I used an inverter and a jump start booster box. The light would last a few hours with the battery box. We found that the glow tubes recharged much quicker with the flourecent light.
Most bites were soft, so it kept the boys on their toes. It was not unusual for us to catch 70-100 fish per night. We cooked many of the burbot as we fished. Fresh fish kept us awake!
The boys are talking about it again. They can't wait to get back up to the Gorge.
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