01-31-2005, 04:26 PM
Decided it was finally time to get back up to the cabin at scofield for a weekend of fishing. Arrived at the gate around 6pm friday night, unloaded the atv and headed into the park. The temps were very warm for a evening at scofield. The snow had really piled up in the park. We spent the first hour breaking a decent trail into the cabin. We went through drifts that had to be 4 feet deep which surprised me because the whole east side was very accessable to both atv's and foot traffic. Saturday morning came pretty early for us. We headed out to find a way onto the ice that would allow us back off the ice later that afternoon. The snow simply wouldn't pack down and acted more like sugar. We ended up parking the atv's at the cabin and walking out on the ice around noon. We walked from the west shore out past the island and about 300 yards north from there. We figured it was over a mile each way. The ice was pushing 2ft thick. We lowered the finder and instantly marked fish. The water was 10ft. deep and the fish were active. We ended up landing 25 fish by 4pm and then decided it would be wise to walk out before darkness set in. Saturday night the skies cleared and it got extremely cold. We woke up Sunday morning to harder snow and a lot less walking as we were able to ride the atvs down to the ice and out to our same spot. Sunday morning was pretty much a repeat of Saturdays success, landed 30 fish by noon. The fishing was pretty consistent both days. We used ratso's tipped with wax worms or night crawlers, didn't matter which, about 18" below a castmaster. We also put some smelly jelly on as an extra incentive.. Had a great weekend but should brought a snowmobile.
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