11-30-2011, 06:27 PM
[cool][#0000ff]There are several small areas along that steep bank...and out a ways from it...that attract both the wallies and the perch. But they sometimes hold so tight to the bottom that it is tough to read them on the "average" sonar. Even with a flasher when ice fishing you sometimes have to get them stirred up before a few come off the bottom and show up on the display.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In the "olden days" the whole lake bottom was covered with perch. The first few years Deer Creek was open to ice fishing it didn't much matter where you drilled your holes. You would catch perch. I had days when I drilled a series of holes out from the steep rocky banks to the north of Walsburg...in water from about 30 feet out to about 70 feet. I would walk from hole to hole, dropping down and seeing who was home. Sometimes I caught fish out of just about every hole. And you could look around and see other newbie ice anglers putting perch on the ice all over the lake.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Pretty tough to do that anymore. And you need live minnows to get the walleyes to bite. Oh, wait a minute. This is Utah. Delete...delete.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]In the "olden days" the whole lake bottom was covered with perch. The first few years Deer Creek was open to ice fishing it didn't much matter where you drilled your holes. You would catch perch. I had days when I drilled a series of holes out from the steep rocky banks to the north of Walsburg...in water from about 30 feet out to about 70 feet. I would walk from hole to hole, dropping down and seeing who was home. Sometimes I caught fish out of just about every hole. And you could look around and see other newbie ice anglers putting perch on the ice all over the lake.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Pretty tough to do that anymore. And you need live minnows to get the walleyes to bite. Oh, wait a minute. This is Utah. Delete...delete.[/#0000ff]
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