Twelve available fishing days during Christmas vacation and six days on the ice. Mackay Reservoir treated us very well on both days there. Took a son-in-law and a grandson there. We caught trout and kokanee there. We used my flasher-jig setup for kokanee. Here Brandon lands one of the small kokanee we caught.
You can see our setup for the kokanee in the picture. I tye the jig and tip it with a wax worm or piece of nightcrawler. The kokanee are withing a foot of the bottom no matter what depth of water we were in.
Mud Lake was still dead and we took all the grandchildren to Roberts Pond to catch small perch. They had a lot of fun, but nothing of any size.
Island Park Reservoir was good to me as I caught rainbows and a couple of nice kokanee there. I used the same setup as I did for kokanee. The area by the dam is my favorite area.
Henrys Lake for the one day season on New Year's Day was not good. I predicted in my newspaper article that it would probably be slow and it was. My son-in-law, Steve, and I each caught one brook trout.
Tomorrow is back to school, but what a way to spend a couple of weeks in the wilds of Idaho.
2 comments:
Bill, I knew I could rely on you for an ice fishing update! Due to family time taking up most of my time,I wasn't able to make it to Henrys for the one day season. Sounds like it was a tough day. Thanks for the update on Mackey, I think that has been the most consistent ice fishery so far this season. Happy hook ups in 2011!
Ice fishing is something I have yet to try. You are building great memories for that grandson. Good job!
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