Otter creek 1/6/14

[gnorth]

Well made the trip over to otter creek today with my dad and my boy. We went over to the east side as we heard it was no so hot anywhere on the lake and I have had good luck in the past on the far side. I drilled a few holes and baited my boys hook and was dropping it down when bam fish on. My little guy was able to pull the nice rainbow out. I figured sweet it is going to be a good day catching. after about 15 min my dad hooked up on a nice bow. Then it went cold not a bite nothing for about an hour and a half. We decided well it is still early enough so we went to fish off the point. After getting set up and waiting about an hour I finally got a bite but missed it. I re baited my hook and dropped it down this time he took it and I was able to get him hooked. he felt like a really nice bow But when I got him to the hole he was a 20" Cut beautiful fish. about 5 min later my dad pulled another nice otter creek football bow. we called it a day and headed home. The weather was cold but no wind and the sun was shinning. Not the fastest fishing but worth the trip.
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[whipper-snapper]

Sounds like a fun trip. How was the ice?
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[albinotrout]

Nice report and no skunk.
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[JustJim]

It was about a foot thick down at the south end. And gnorth did way better than I did.
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[gnorth]

The ice was 12-18 inches it was nice and loud today
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[Flyfish4thrills]

They did better than us as well. We had a late start. We fished the west shore from maybe 1/2 mile north of the ramp to 1/2 mile south. We covered a ton of water and drilled many, many holes and have never seen so few fish in any single fishing trip!! (using a fishfinder and flasher). We saw maybe 3 fish total over 4 hours...that's seriously the fewest fish ever seen on a fishfinder by us. We didn't have a single bite. Spoke with other fisherman as everyone was standing around shooting the bull (not catching fish). They all had the same, horrible luck. I wonder if populations are down as I doubt all the fish are hiding somewhere like the dam.
We spent the last few hours closer to the dam where we saw a few fish on sonar, but were skinny and small compared to the past. We only had a few nibbles. It was a horrible day for fishing. Ice was about 12 inches thick everywhere we fished. It was pretty cold and windy as well. We will be spending more time at Panguitch, Fish Lake and Minersville this ice fishing season.
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[lumberjack031]

I took my wife's cousin on his first ice fishing trip last saturday. Went to the State Park at fisherman's beach which is the east side of the state park, got there early and I had heard how slow it has been but I figured we would use my tent and stay warm at least and enjoy some good conversation. Well the second hole drilled was at 15' my wife's cousin dropped it down and started getting hits he couldn't hook up so we tried other holes at 20' and 10' to see if fish were coming through. Nothing for 10 min so we setup the tent over the 15' hole.

Thus began one of the most frustrating days of fishing in my life :[mad][:/][sly][crazy]) We had fish come through in 5, 10, 15 min intervals for the next 3 hours. They would come through dive at our jigs or come up off the bottom, we stayed mostly close to the bottom and would hit my wife's cousin's jig, not mine. Of course, even though they were the same jig and being his first time could not hook up as most were very lite bites. So essentially we left smelling like skunks but we saw a lot of fish come through both big and small [] All in all we didn't freeze but had a nice day of fishing and saw a good herd of elk in the middle of the road on the way there []

Speaking of minersville and not to change the thread but this was my sister's first fish through the ice on New Years.
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[gmanhunter]

You guys are fishing too deep. I have fished the lake 5 times this ice season, and have done well. The fish are getting ready to spawn, and are in shallow. Try 3'-8' of water. You will do better. I have caught 4 four pounders this year. The fishing is alittle slow, but the size makes up for it. I'm headed there saturday. Well see how it works out then.
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[bigbucksmj]

in the 3-8' range what are you using and where do you go?

I will be there Saturday for the 1st time to fish the ice and any help would be awesome!!!

Thank you
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[gmanhunter]

I wont give up my spot. But I fished on the north end. I was using a crappie jig, lime green pepper flake, tipped with half a night crawler. It seems like they would hit about any small tube jig tipped with a crawler.
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[bigbucksmj]

Thank you!
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