02-18-2008, 05:31 AM
Posted about Scofield last week, but I met fishinphil at the service station in Levan yesterday and mentioned I was going to Scofield today. He asked me to post a report so here goes.
Got to Scofield about 7:30, temp 20, windy. Parked directly east of the island, snow-shoed out about half way to the island. There are a few trails close to shore that are easy to walk on, but off the trails is pretty miserable. Two feet of snow and the slush has gotten much worse this last week. Some places the slush is about 10 inches deep under a foot of snow.
Found an area with no slush and shoveled out a place to fish. Packed snow around where I wanted my hole and went to drilling. About 18 inches of ice. Water rose in the hole until it was about 4-5 inches above the ice. Kept adding snow to try and hold the water back. Worked for a while.
Now to the fishing. It was a good day: twelve feet of water, jig head tipped with crawler, caught fish from 3-12 feet. Caught about 30 fish, ten longer than 14 inches. Early was best. Bite tapered off during the day. Left at 12:00.
Stopped on the way off the ice to help some people from Huntington who had never ice fished before. Marked lots of fish, but couldn't get one to bite for them [mad]
Certainly not ideal conditions, but fun fishing.
Headed to Yuba tomorrow. Taking my cousin, his wife, and five kids(3-11) ice fishing for the first time. Hope the bite is a little faster than it was Saturday. Stop by and say Hi if you're down there...I'll be the one going crazy!
Chester
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Got to Scofield about 7:30, temp 20, windy. Parked directly east of the island, snow-shoed out about half way to the island. There are a few trails close to shore that are easy to walk on, but off the trails is pretty miserable. Two feet of snow and the slush has gotten much worse this last week. Some places the slush is about 10 inches deep under a foot of snow.
Found an area with no slush and shoveled out a place to fish. Packed snow around where I wanted my hole and went to drilling. About 18 inches of ice. Water rose in the hole until it was about 4-5 inches above the ice. Kept adding snow to try and hold the water back. Worked for a while.
Now to the fishing. It was a good day: twelve feet of water, jig head tipped with crawler, caught fish from 3-12 feet. Caught about 30 fish, ten longer than 14 inches. Early was best. Bite tapered off during the day. Left at 12:00.
Stopped on the way off the ice to help some people from Huntington who had never ice fished before. Marked lots of fish, but couldn't get one to bite for them [mad]
Certainly not ideal conditions, but fun fishing.
Headed to Yuba tomorrow. Taking my cousin, his wife, and five kids(3-11) ice fishing for the first time. Hope the bite is a little faster than it was Saturday. Stop by and say Hi if you're down there...I'll be the one going crazy!
Chester
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