the Preston area

[ridcbr]

has anybody Fish the Preston lakes or Twin Lakes what is the ice conditions anything would be great
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[ridcbr]

You can pm me if you don't want to tell the world
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[jigs]

I think everything is froze up. They were fishing foster, deepcreek and Weston.
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[ridcbr]

Fish Glendale Sunday morning and caught a couple perch in between the five and six inch range and a couple of trout ice was about 8 inches edges are wet
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[Euge136]

Treasureton ice does not look very pretty but it was solid and cracking loud yesterday. Soft edge. Not a single bite for half the day.
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[TubeFisherman]

Do you know the conditions at Deep Creek? wondering if I need a plank to get onto the ice. Many places on that lake just a few feet out and your over your head if you fell in. thanks.
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[ridcbr]

Not sure on deep creek but fish Glendale yesterday and the edges are bad about ten feet out the ice was 6 inch once I got on but it was milking the whole time caught 25 perch in a couple hours but I will not be going there any more because it's just not safe then we went to Johnson and the ice was only 4 inches and milking so it was unsafe but we caught 10 gills in 2 hours but I would not go there either as you could fall though it looks like ice fish could be done for the year it least down the Preston way
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[gofish435]

Thanks for the report.

That place seems to have gone down hill ever since the bass showed up.[:/]
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[dtayboyz]

There were bass there when I fished it as a kid. Now I am a fat 52.
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[gofish435]

I have only fished it since 2000 so I don't know how the fishing was when the bass were in there then. I do remember catching a nice brook trout in 2001 and have never caught one since. I'm assuming the IF&G treated the lake to remove the bass at one time or the reservoir was drained.

I'm not saying I don't like bass, I like catching anything that swims but it's too bad that the bucket biologists can't leave well enough alone.[:/]
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[TubeFisherman]

Replying to my own post. Fished it on Monday. It was like the good old days when no one but me is fishing. Of course maybe that is a bad sign. As for the edges. it looked a little shady, but got on the ice no problem. Landed 10 for the day with most of them being this years planters. I left at 1:30, but might as well have been 11. There were a few bites between that time, but you couldn't hook them. It was warm. So warm in fact that I could tell all of the people that fished it on Sunday. The holes they drilled you could open it with a lite tap of the foot. You could also hear the river/stream just pouring into the lake. On the way out there was no snow left on the lake as well as a little water on the edges. But, got off no problem. However, the warm temperature made the little skim of snow into a muddy mess. I had to carry my sled up to the truck.
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[gstott]

I think the ice is on its way out. Lots of rain and warm weather in the forecast.
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[Pharticus]

So . Soon we'll have to resort to fishing open water. []
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[gstott]

Yeah it's a darned shame [cool]
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