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So three of us, all ignorant ice fishing noobs, went a fishing. We had an awesome day! First we went south of mackinaw and spent about 2 hours in 20ft of water to no avail. With all the popping cracking and pinging of the ice (at 8-10" it was probably totally OK, but ignorant as we were we were clenching pretty hard!) We decided to try somewhere less stressful. We ended up between Mackinaw and twin creeks and after a quick tip from a more experienced gentleman we stuck to 10-15' right at the edge of the weeds within a foot of the bottom. By some of your standards it probably wasn't a crazy successful day, but to us 15 perch, 1 whitefish, 6 splake, and 10 rainbows (biggest trout were hefty 18"ers) was an awesome 6 hours of fishing! Were we spent most of our time the ice was a lot quieter and 12" very solid. Weather was gorgeous wind pretty calm and we had a blast! We were using red flecked white gizzy bugs on white 1/16 glow jig heads tipped with meal worms. The splake would take white paddlebugs tipped with either a perch eye or mealworm hitting pretty hard when you dropped your lure down. Rainbows were all over the water column and we (obviously) struggled to nail down the perch bite. Thanks to kastmaster for giving me some tips!
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Sounds like for being noobs you had a great day. Thanks for sharing!
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I have never seen a whitefish come out of Fish Lake, lots and lots of suckers but never a whitefish. You should post a pic if you have one. Congrats on a successful day fishing.
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You could be totally right on it having been a sucker. I wish I had a pic to tee l get more educated opinions than mine.
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thanks for the great report. glad you got into some fish. sounds fun. maybe the ice will stick around a little longer.
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I wish you would have taken a picture of your mystery fish. There are lots of suckers as mentioned and there are still a few Utah chubs in fish lake. If the mouth was under the head it was a sucker. If the mouth was at the front of the head then I would say chub. gshorthair
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The mouth was definitely in the front. it was about a 14" long and really fat fish. The only picture I have doesn't show it very well at all. Thinking it was a whitefish, I kept it to try out a recipe idea I had, but after scaling it and cutting it open the meat was black--imagine charcoal colored. Needless to say I did not attempt my recipe. I've caught plenty of chubs in Scofield, but never any over 10". This is why I thought whitefish at first, but I am far from qualified enough to maintain an assertion that species X was caught where they aren't found.
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You are most welcome! Glad you got into some fish.
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