12-27-2015, 03:32 AM
I hit SC early this morning with a friend. Fished the arm closest to the highway. The ice was 8-10" thick there but dropped to 3" where the arm narrows before it joins the main body of water.
Fishing was fast and furious around 7:30am with the two of us catching more than half a dozen fish in about ten minutes.
We fished in about 16 feet of water and got most of the action on white manic custom jigs tipped with a wax/meal/earth worm fished just off the bottom.
The bite slowed down as the sun came up. Fish seemed to move up in the water column as the day went on. About half the fish were 10-12" dinks and the other half were big and fat slot-sized Cutts.
We ended the day around 2:30 having caught about 20 fish between us. We kept two 16-18" bows and a 12" Cutt.
On the way back we saw people out fishing on the ice at both the ladders and chicken creek.
Jordanelle is still wide open but Echo only has a section of open water near the dam. With these cold temps we should have our pick of fishing locations in a week or so.
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Fishing was fast and furious around 7:30am with the two of us catching more than half a dozen fish in about ten minutes.
We fished in about 16 feet of water and got most of the action on white manic custom jigs tipped with a wax/meal/earth worm fished just off the bottom.
The bite slowed down as the sun came up. Fish seemed to move up in the water column as the day went on. About half the fish were 10-12" dinks and the other half were big and fat slot-sized Cutts.
We ended the day around 2:30 having caught about 20 fish between us. We kept two 16-18" bows and a 12" Cutt.
On the way back we saw people out fishing on the ice at both the ladders and chicken creek.
Jordanelle is still wide open but Echo only has a section of open water near the dam. With these cold temps we should have our pick of fishing locations in a week or so.
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