Deer Creek or East Canyon

[muirco]

Looking to go to Deer Creek or East Canyon Saturday morning. How have prior been doing there the past week? Any tips would be appreciated![fishon]
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[RichardE]

Been to East Canyon last few weekends. Setup by either point off boat ramp. Ice is good with some snow on top. Caught 4-8 rainbows every time, the largest 17 inches, usually only 5-15 feet under ice. Probably heading up again this Saturday. Not too crowded.
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[panfisher]

DC has been real slow.
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[Addictedtoice]

I went to east canyon last weekend and it was really slow. We had a few bites but didn't ice anything. A few ppl around us iced a few but not many.
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[doitall5000]

I would like to find some crappie on east canyon, anyone locate them this year.? I know they are hanging out somewhere.
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[SkinnyLynnie]

We went to Deer Creek last Saturday up at Charleston, where the Provo River enters the reservoir. Not everyone had the success we did, but we caught our limit in a couple of hours. The fish seemed to bite on almost any sort of jig tipped with nightcrawler or mealworms.

Last week there was six inches of good ice topped by a 2" layer of slush covered with snow. There was a crust on top of the slush so when you were walking on the snow you would occasionally break through the crust and sink a couple of inches. That was scary for my wife, but it wasn't really dangerous. Your foot would stop as soon as it hit the solid ice.

I'm planning on going again tomorrow (Saturday, Feb 4), but I'm a little worried about the ice after this last week of warm weather. Has anyone been to Deer Creek in the last day or two? How is the ice holding up???
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[300ultramagLR]

Drove by DC this afternoon and to say it looked suspect is an understatement. Heavy rain and 40 degrees. I would use extreme caution.
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[klam]

Conditions on the ice are the same ice, slush, and crusty snow.
The edges are soft and have melted a few feet from the shore. Someone put a pallet and old table top to use at Charleston.
Fishing slowed down up there this week.
Good luck.

[a_bow_nut]

[quote SkinnyLynnie]We went to Deer Creek last Saturday up at Charleston, where the Provo River enters the reservoir. Not everyone had the success we did, but we caught our limit in a couple of hours. The fish seemed to bite on almost any sort of jig tipped with nightcrawler or mealworms.

Last week there was six inches of good ice topped by a 2" layer of slush covered with snow. There was a crust on top of the slush so when you were walking on the snow you would occasionally break through the crust and sink a couple of inches. That was scary for my wife, but it wasn't really dangerous. Your foot would stop as soon as it hit the solid ice.

I'm planning on going again tomorrow (Saturday, Feb 4), but I'm a little worried about the ice after this last week of warm weather. Has anyone been to Deer Creek in the last day or two? How is the ice holding up???[/quote]

Were you guys coming off the ice at dusk?

If so I was the fat out of shape man catching his breath before heading up the bank.
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[SkinnyLynnie]

We didn't stay until dusk. Hope you made it off the ice safely.
We did have a successful day on the ice. Eleven of us (several newbies) went and we caught 21 fish. They were all rainbows, and the biggest was 19-1/2 inches long! Here are a couple of pics.
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[a_bow_nut]

Nice looking fish.

I hiked out to the southwest of the crowds and set up my black tent.

Went through two packages of wax worms in six hours of fishing. Sometimes I couldn't get the first pole up before thdy would try to drag the second pole down the hole.
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