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[cool][#0000ff]I went out to my storage shed and got my sonar off my tube and rigged it up for ice fishing.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I could swear I heard my tube whimpering...maybe from the cold and maybe from loneliness. Poor thing. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Sorry. That's the best I can do until the daytime temperatures warm up enough to melt that infernal Antarctic ice cap. Came in early and has been building with a vengeance.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Global warming? Yeah, right. Not in Utah.[/#0000ff]
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I hear ya Pat. I need to do the same (go to the shed and get sonar rigged for ice).
It's been a busy month. I haven't even looked at the water since our Pinview adventure back before Thanksgiving.
Good luck when you make it out. Prolly gonna be a couple more weeks for me.
Happy New Year everyone!
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I went out today and scouted some places to float the snake river hopefully for cats. There was so much private land that it will make the trips a long one at best. The first take out is only 1/2 mile or so and is not a great take out. The next one is 5 miles and it is a tough take out. The next one is at 7 miles and that is a good take out spot. If the river is running about what it was last spring I think the 7 mile trip would just be a good day floating and fishing. The next take out from there would be at 10 miles. That one would be a tough take out. The bank is very steep and it would be a bugger to get up. If a guy missed that take out there is no public access until the next take out spot,,,, at mile 19.67
I am not sure these trips would even be worth much as far as fishing goes. This stretch is very shallow I think. I was told by biologists that they don't do much work there because it is too shallow for their boats. I know that cats like to come into the shallows and this stretch has higher DO rates than the lower impoundment does.
I have been doing a lot of studying on this stretch and I wish the 5 mile take out spot was better. The 7 mile trip could be a slow one without much flow, or it could be a half day trip if the river is big like last year. Oh well I can keep thinking ice started at mile 5 and was solid at mile 23. If I don't catch any cats in this stretch of milner I am going to call it quits for milner and drive west. Ron
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[quote TubeDude][#0000ff]Global warming? Yeah, right. Not in Utah.[/#0000ff][/quote]
<lol> NOT HERE IN NEBRASKA EITHER!!!! [crazy]
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[cool][#0000ff]Yeah, right. Here are some "float tubing" pictures from last Friday on Utah Lake. Sure, they are catfish, but they came from under a foot of ice on a day when the high temperature was only 30 degrees.[/#0000ff]
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Hey a guy can dream can't he?
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