02-21-2010, 11:08 PM
One of my neighbors had not been ice fishing before and it so happens that he had a snowmobile....boy did I have a deal for him.[
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We left Rexburg at about 4:30 AM and arrived at the trail to Wade Lake around 6:45. The eight mile ride into the lake was beautiful and relatively uneventful. The wind had blown the trail shut in a few places but we plowed through ok. My neighbor was a little unsure about driving the snowmobile on the ice especially since he could see the open water where springs run into the lake. I tested the ice to show him that the ice was around 20" thick and nothing to be worried about. We stopped well before the danger zone and pulled our ice sled a little closer to the springs testing the ice depth every few feet.
The fish were hanging near the bottom in 39 feet of water. The morning started off red hot. We missed a ton of bites and then as we got the feel for them we started to reel them in. By time we left the lake around 5:30PM we had landed and released 55 rainbows between 15-19". Paddle bugs tipped with nightcrawlers or mealworms were on the menu. It didn't really seem to matter what color.
We didn't catch any giants but the rainbows fought really hard. Why do we like cutts so much?[crazy] We didn't find any browns. When I was a kid it seemed like we caught mostly browns. Anyone know what happened to them?
Here are a few pics...
Windriver
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]We left Rexburg at about 4:30 AM and arrived at the trail to Wade Lake around 6:45. The eight mile ride into the lake was beautiful and relatively uneventful. The wind had blown the trail shut in a few places but we plowed through ok. My neighbor was a little unsure about driving the snowmobile on the ice especially since he could see the open water where springs run into the lake. I tested the ice to show him that the ice was around 20" thick and nothing to be worried about. We stopped well before the danger zone and pulled our ice sled a little closer to the springs testing the ice depth every few feet.
The fish were hanging near the bottom in 39 feet of water. The morning started off red hot. We missed a ton of bites and then as we got the feel for them we started to reel them in. By time we left the lake around 5:30PM we had landed and released 55 rainbows between 15-19". Paddle bugs tipped with nightcrawlers or mealworms were on the menu. It didn't really seem to matter what color.
We didn't catch any giants but the rainbows fought really hard. Why do we like cutts so much?[crazy] We didn't find any browns. When I was a kid it seemed like we caught mostly browns. Anyone know what happened to them?
Here are a few pics...
Windriver
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