07-27-2022, 08:31 PM
(07-27-2022, 08:07 PM)just-ice Wrote: Thanks for the encourageme, funny thing was I quit around the time of icefishing and didn't crave it, summer has been tougher. I quit chewing and smoking a long time ago and that was something I wanted again, might just be a sign of the times too.
A couple years ago I was pike fishing at night and caught a decent wiper, for here, not giant but I thought for sure it was going to be my trophy pike or t.m., just not used to the fight. Wipers one I thing i've probably iced but need a big one to be sure, not much left for me locally but carp, to catch icefishing at least. Last season was spent obsessing on one species, didn't go on my usual tour of the lakes but I think I beat my total weight for a ice season by 1000 percent.
Most likely a muskrat, I was wondering what to do if it snagged itself. There are beaver too,they made a dam and it created a shallow pond where there used to be a third pond ten years ago, a flood recreated the area and recent small floods have brought tons of material from burn scars, I guess, anyway its this thick black mud, must be nutrient rich stuff since the trees and grass went crazy.
Sounds like you got a pretty nice pattern going on over there, never caught a salmon, icing one would be best but we can snag them somewhere at sometime which sounds fun too.
When I lived in Southern Colo back in the 70's it was legal to snag spawning salmon, I did not realize they still allowed that practice. I remember one fall my fishing partner and I caught what seemed to be a hundred of them, my Dad had a 63 Chevy Impala and that low spot in the truck we filled with those salmon. Love to catch kokes while ice fishing but it's not easy, mainly because they are always moving and you just have to be in the right place at the right time, on bigger lakes it's really hard, the smaller the lake the better your chances are.
Have you ever fished lake Boyd there in Colo?