12-09-2018, 05:58 AM
Wanted to get on some early ice and thanks to other BFT'ers posts, we decided to make a trip south to Scofield (I live in Hooper, so it was a bit of a trek). Glad we did! We did get a late start, but it turned out to be a great day.
I have never been there so we pulled into the first road that looked like it had access to the reservoir and drove around to the north boat ramp. We headed down the ramp and hit solid ice (~5") and about 4-6 inches of slush at 2:00 PM. We trekked about 75 yards south and dropped our fish finders in and a some hooks in the water and not more than 5 minutes later my rod went bendo on a green jig head with a glow paddle bug. The fish was a rainbow about 15" long (actually turned out to be the biggest fish of the day). All in all we pulled in 13 rainbows between the two of us in 3 hours of fishing. Size ranged between 12" and 15". We caught fish mainly in the 10-15' range, but had a few at 5'. Those were a surprise.
Water depth at our spot was 16 - 18' FOW.
We caught everything on green jig heads with green glow paddle bugs. Sometimes they were tipped with wax worms, but sometimes not. We had other set-ups (rat finkees, Kastmaster spoon, red/black jig heads with various tube jigs) which got a lot of lookers, but no takers! Funny that the fishies were glad for green, but did not like any other offering.
Shame that I forgot my BFT Utah Ice Fishing Challenge sheet or I would have at least gotten on the board! Give's me an excuse to get out again ASAP.
Weather was great with very little wind. We did set up the hut as soon as the sun went behind the hill to keep us warm. As soon as it hit 5:15 we packed it up and made the 2:15 hour drive home.
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I have never been there so we pulled into the first road that looked like it had access to the reservoir and drove around to the north boat ramp. We headed down the ramp and hit solid ice (~5") and about 4-6 inches of slush at 2:00 PM. We trekked about 75 yards south and dropped our fish finders in and a some hooks in the water and not more than 5 minutes later my rod went bendo on a green jig head with a glow paddle bug. The fish was a rainbow about 15" long (actually turned out to be the biggest fish of the day). All in all we pulled in 13 rainbows between the two of us in 3 hours of fishing. Size ranged between 12" and 15". We caught fish mainly in the 10-15' range, but had a few at 5'. Those were a surprise.
Water depth at our spot was 16 - 18' FOW.
We caught everything on green jig heads with green glow paddle bugs. Sometimes they were tipped with wax worms, but sometimes not. We had other set-ups (rat finkees, Kastmaster spoon, red/black jig heads with various tube jigs) which got a lot of lookers, but no takers! Funny that the fishies were glad for green, but did not like any other offering.
Shame that I forgot my BFT Utah Ice Fishing Challenge sheet or I would have at least gotten on the board! Give's me an excuse to get out again ASAP.
Weather was great with very little wind. We did set up the hut as soon as the sun went behind the hill to keep us warm. As soon as it hit 5:15 we packed it up and made the 2:15 hour drive home.
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