03-02-2008, 02:54 PM
This being my fist year ice fishing I always wondered why everyone and thier dog went to strawberry to ice fish. Finally a couple of us were able to get together and show me, Holman and I went to the berry and met up with IceIceBaby and his family. I will tell you he knows his stuff and between the group landed 30-40 fish! Iceicebaby get the nod for the big one of the day he taped out at 23 inches and we guestamated 3-4 lb range a healthy one for sure!
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Holman the ice fishing master took honors with 13 fish for the day, his mojo was working!
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My last 5 trips have produced only one fish, but this trip was double as good!
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They took a pink paddle bug tiped with a meal worm, ice flies and meal worms, and little white tube jigs were the hit of the party. Funny with 10 holes drilled it seemed 2-3 were the "hot" ones funny how ice fishing works that way. ICEICEBaby is a cool guy, thank you for the invite and I look forward to getting out again!
Holman and I stopped for some grub at daniels summit lodge and saw the ultimate I want ice fishing machine a helecopter! How cool would it be to get from the berry to minersville in 15 min if the fish were not biting! Plus you could always get away from the crowds. We then continued our combo trip and stopped at the provo on the way down. It was saturday combat fishing for sure but I needed to get the fly rod out of hibernation. I gave holman a couple of bugs and we were off to the river. Still a lot of snow to get down to the river and I had to fish some new water today but it was nice to feel the tug on the fly rod again! I think we each ended up with 3 or so and several others missed, not hot fishing but the water had been beaten to death and it is the provo. It made me yearn for the small streams, dumb fish, and being able to fish a big dry again. Holman had the camera so I am sure he will post my ugly mug with a stunted brown of about 14 inches. A great day, nice people, the weather cooperated, caught some fish, and hit that rest button for another week!
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Holman the ice fishing master took honors with 13 fish for the day, his mojo was working!
My last 5 trips have produced only one fish, but this trip was double as good!
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They took a pink paddle bug tiped with a meal worm, ice flies and meal worms, and little white tube jigs were the hit of the party. Funny with 10 holes drilled it seemed 2-3 were the "hot" ones funny how ice fishing works that way. ICEICEBaby is a cool guy, thank you for the invite and I look forward to getting out again!
Holman and I stopped for some grub at daniels summit lodge and saw the ultimate I want ice fishing machine a helecopter! How cool would it be to get from the berry to minersville in 15 min if the fish were not biting! Plus you could always get away from the crowds. We then continued our combo trip and stopped at the provo on the way down. It was saturday combat fishing for sure but I needed to get the fly rod out of hibernation. I gave holman a couple of bugs and we were off to the river. Still a lot of snow to get down to the river and I had to fish some new water today but it was nice to feel the tug on the fly rod again! I think we each ended up with 3 or so and several others missed, not hot fishing but the water had been beaten to death and it is the provo. It made me yearn for the small streams, dumb fish, and being able to fish a big dry again. Holman had the camera so I am sure he will post my ugly mug with a stunted brown of about 14 inches. A great day, nice people, the weather cooperated, caught some fish, and hit that rest button for another week!
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