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I was going to take some neighborhood kids out to bountiful pond this morning but with it raining at low elevation we decided against going out on the slippery ice with young kids.
I've been seeing reports about the crappie at Pineview, but haven't seen anything about the perch. Is anybody finding the dink perch in sufficient numbers to entertain young kids?
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I couldn't find any perch when I went up. I was up there Friday from about 8:00am to 6:00pm North of Cemetery point. We started out probably 100 yards out in 40 feet of water and caught probably 15 Crappie until about 9:00. Then it died maybe a couple bites here or there but completely dead.
We moved North about another 50 to 75 yards to try that. We caught a couple more like 2-3 until about 12:00. It seamed like about noon it was completely dead nothing until about 4:45. That is when it started to pick up again and my finder lit up with fish. We stayed till about six and it was steady till we left catching maybe 15 to 20 Crappie between the two of us.
We probably missed twice as many as we caught. We used everything we could think of Ratfinkees, ratso, shrimpo, tube jigs, kastmasters, and Jiggin raps along with a variety of ice flies. We did best with a red ice fly tipped with a Berkley Gulp maggot. They did not really take anything that was not tipped with the Gulp maggot. They did not want anything real, we tried wax worms, meal worms, and spikes, they hit on a couple of those but they liked the Gulp the best.
We stayed right on the bottom maybe a foot off at the most. There were a couple cruisers between 5 to 20 feet but nothing that appeared to be worth going after. Though I was looking down through my hole at one point and did see a Tiger muskie swim right below my hole. He was probably 3 feet in length. I yelled at my buddy to come look as he was making yellow snow outside. He was so excited he ran back inside the tent and that big boy was gone as fast as he came in when he heard my buddy coming to catch him.
I heard of a couple guys that were catching a couple perch a few hundred yards north of us. As for us it was all Crappie all day. We ended up catching a little more than thirty all day. It was cold even inside the tent with a heater when that wind started to blow it blew and it was cold.
If you go up let us know how you do, I would sure like to try it again this year but I want to go for the perch like you. Good luck
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Are the holes still gushing as was reported earlier?
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I forgot strike indicators are a must. My buddy thought he could see his pole move without one boy was he wrong. I was catching them all over the place while he was watching his medium action rod sit still. The bite was so light I don't think I caught anything without holding my pole. They liked the bait moving I had a couple hit on the dead stick, but as soon as they hit they were gone.
As soon as my buddy let me put an indicator on his pole he started to see the bite and catch fish. We have no idea how many took his bait and didn't even know they hit. Just don't forget the indicators they are a must have.
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Yes when we were up there we made the mistake of shoveling inside the tent. About half an hour into fishing we had probably an inch of water. We were swimming especially with the heater. Don't shovel the snow, pack it down especially if you have a tent and heater. Don't make the mistake I did.
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Thanks for that report. We got as far as mountain green before going over trappers loop and decided it was snowing too hard and heavy for us to go on over. So we turned around. stopped at Farmington pond on the way home so the little kids could at least drop a line in the water. Of course we didn't get catch anything, but they had fun walking on ice for the first time.
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IMO - I wouldn't take young uns to pinewiew for the perch or crappie, as the bite is too lite for them to respond and actually catch a fish...I think they really want to SEE a bite and maybe even CATCH a fish...and I think you're talking small trout for that...like Kaysville pond, Bountiful pond, etc. those 2 places you can be in 7 ft of water and use a little bobber that they can watch jump around at a bite...I've known alot of adults that can't catch the crappie because their gear is too heavy, no spring tips, too slow to react to the bite, etc. good luck with them...
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About the water gushing up, we were there Saturday north of Cemetery Point about 250 yards east and 50 feet out when I got bored and started looking around. Found couple weird holes in the ice with no footprints around them so I approached cautiously and stuck my finder in to find water that was at about 34 degrees coming out of a fist-sized hole at a rate of easily a couple gallons per minute. No fish under the hole.
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Yeah. Panfish can actually be pretty hard to catch. Way down there, light, tiny lures often, and that super light bite. Had a lot of guys try it with me, and it takes a bit for them to even get to where they are seeing the bites, finding the depth, etc...
Take small taboggans or raised platforms for them to stand on.
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