01-02-2015, 07:24 AM
Happy New Year and here's a report from our first trip of 2015.
I checked the ice conditions yesterday, and the Confluence was capped with 4-inches and the ice ended just above Currant Creek. I went back with friends and family today, and the ice extended through Big Bend and the Confluence thickened by 2-inches. Thank-you Mother Nature.
We made it an afternoon trip today so it could at least warm into the single digits (4F at 2PM). We started shallow (15-20ft) for rainbows and some were more fortunate, catching a few great bows up to 3-4lbs on Berkley Atomic tubes and curly tails tipped with meal worm. Prior to sunset, we set-up for burbot along rocky shoreline in 10-35 ft of water. The pup lakers moved in first and we quickly put ten on the ice, most of which hit a "Firetiger" Buckshot spoon tipped with sucker meat. Consistent with other reports, burbot fishing was slow and only two were iced. By 7PM the current "catch" was frozen solid and some of the kid's toes were closely trailing, so we called it a day.
We fished the Confluence where ice was about 6-inches.
Good luck and hope it helps, Ryno
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I checked the ice conditions yesterday, and the Confluence was capped with 4-inches and the ice ended just above Currant Creek. I went back with friends and family today, and the ice extended through Big Bend and the Confluence thickened by 2-inches. Thank-you Mother Nature.
We made it an afternoon trip today so it could at least warm into the single digits (4F at 2PM). We started shallow (15-20ft) for rainbows and some were more fortunate, catching a few great bows up to 3-4lbs on Berkley Atomic tubes and curly tails tipped with meal worm. Prior to sunset, we set-up for burbot along rocky shoreline in 10-35 ft of water. The pup lakers moved in first and we quickly put ten on the ice, most of which hit a "Firetiger" Buckshot spoon tipped with sucker meat. Consistent with other reports, burbot fishing was slow and only two were iced. By 7PM the current "catch" was frozen solid and some of the kid's toes were closely trailing, so we called it a day.
We fished the Confluence where ice was about 6-inches.
Good luck and hope it helps, Ryno
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