01-30-2005, 11:54 PM
Tomcat64 and I drove through that mess and fished in the Lazy Boy area from 5:45 or so until just after noon. We each caught 1 little rainbow for our trouble. We saw some fish on the Vex and actually had a few other tiny bumps but the fish seemed very skittish. You might get 1 tiny tap and then the fish was gone. They would only hit if the jig was deadsticked. When you saw a fish on the flasher, even the movement of picking up the rod VERY carefully, trying not to move the rod tip, was enough to send them packing. I really though with fresh snow covering the ice and cloud cover we might have a great day. Not so.
I even jigged a Chubby Darter a while in hopes a big pike would come crush it, and I never intentionally target pike through the ice here in Colorado.
I'll let Thom post his own report. He looked down the hole and watched fish coming in to his jigs a fair amount through the day. I just watched the Vex dial and my spring bobbers.
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I even jigged a Chubby Darter a while in hopes a big pike would come crush it, and I never intentionally target pike through the ice here in Colorado.
I'll let Thom post his own report. He looked down the hole and watched fish coming in to his jigs a fair amount through the day. I just watched the Vex dial and my spring bobbers.
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