(03-16-2024, 12:45 AM)obifishkenobi Wrote:

Hit Soldier Creek this morning with a friend, we parked at the turn off to the dam around 6:30am and walked along the road in snow mobile tracks for about a mile then accessed the ice and started fishing after 7am in 37' of water. It was non stop action, we did not keep count but probably around 100 between the two of us when we left at 1pm. We each caught a slot buster, making it even more awesome it was a double. The joke today was that we where catching the same fish over and over, the vast majority of the fish caught today where 18"-20" Cutthroat.
 We only caught 6 rainbows, two of which where almost black in their spawning colors. I caught mine on my favorite white with red flake Maniac Gitzilla, my buddy caught them on that too, but he started playing, what can I catch them on, the answer was every thing he tried, tube jigs atomic teasers, spoons and various other stuff. I tipped my stuff with meal worm he used salad shrimp. We caught them all through the water column from the bottom up to 10' down.

(03-16-2024, 08:55 PM)MrShane Wrote:

(03-16-2024, 12:45 AM)obifishkenobi Wrote:

Hit Soldier Creek this morning with a friend, we parked at the turn off to the dam around 6:30am and walked along the road in snow mobile tracks for about a mile then accessed the ice and started fishing after 7am in 37' of water. It was non stop action, we did not keep count but probably around 100 between the two of us when we left at 1pm. We each caught a slot buster, making it even more awesome it was a double. The joke today was that we where catching the same fish over and over, the vast majority of the fish caught today where 18"-20" Cutthroat.
 We only caught 6 rainbows, two of which where almost black in their spawning colors. I caught mine on my favorite white with red flake Maniac Gitzilla, my buddy caught them on that too, but he started playing, what can I catch them on, the answer was every thing he tried, tube jigs atomic teasers, spoons and various other stuff. I tipped my stuff with meal worm he used salad shrimp. We caught them all through the water column from the bottom up to 10' down.

Nice report, thank you!
Your thoughts on if ice is safe enough to take a tracked vehicle on it?

(03-16-2024, 08:55 PM)MrShane Wrote:

(03-16-2024, 12:45 AM)obifishkenobi Wrote:

Hit Soldier Creek this morning with a friend, we parked at the turn off to the dam around 6:30am and walked along the road in snow mobile tracks for about a mile then accessed the ice and started fishing after 7am in 37' of water. It was non stop action, we did not keep count but probably around 100 between the two of us when we left at 1pm. We each caught a slot buster, making it even more awesome it was a double. The joke today was that we where catching the same fish over and over, the vast majority of the fish caught today where 18"-20" Cutthroat.
 We only caught 6 rainbows, two of which where almost black in their spawning colors. I caught mine on my favorite white with red flake Maniac Gitzilla, my buddy caught them on that too, but he started playing, what can I catch them on, the answer was every thing he tried, tube jigs atomic teasers, spoons and various other stuff. I tipped my stuff with meal worm he used salad shrimp. We caught them all through the water column from the bottom up to 10' down.

Nice report, thank you!
Your thoughts on if ice is safe enough to take a tracked vehicle on it?

(03-16-2024, 11:12 PM)Iicerman Wrote:

(03-16-2024, 08:55 PM)MrShane Wrote:

(03-16-2024, 12:45 AM)obifishkenobi Wrote:

Hit Soldier Creek this morning with a friend, we parked at the turn off to the dam around 6:30am and walked along the road in snow mobile tracks for about a mile then accessed the ice and started fishing after 7am in 37' of water. It was non stop action, we did not keep count but probably around 100 between the two of us when we left at 1pm. We each caught a slot buster, making it even more awesome it was a double. The joke today was that we where catching the same fish over and over, the vast majority of the fish caught today where 18"-20" Cutthroat.
 We only caught 6 rainbows, two of which where almost black in their spawning colors. I caught mine on my favorite white with red flake Maniac Gitzilla, my buddy caught them on that too, but he started playing, what can I catch them on, the answer was every thing he tried, tube jigs atomic teasers, spoons and various other stuff. I tipped my stuff with meal worm he used salad shrimp. We caught them all through the water column from the bottom up to 10' down.

Nice report, thank you!
Your thoughts on if ice is safe enough to take a tracked vehicle on it?

Lots of snowmobiles on Strawberry today.  Edges were solid as was walking on the ice.

(03-17-2024, 12:30 AM)obifishkenobi Wrote:

(03-16-2024, 08:55 PM)MrShane Wrote:

(03-16-2024, 12:45 AM)obifishkenobi Wrote:

Hit Soldier Creek this morning with a friend, we parked at the turn off to the dam around 6:30am and walked along the road in snow mobile tracks for about a mile then accessed the ice and started fishing after 7am in 37' of water. It was non stop action, we did not keep count but probably around 100 between the two of us when we left at 1pm. We each caught a slot buster, making it even more awesome it was a double. The joke today was that we where catching the same fish over and over, the vast majority of the fish caught today where 18"-20" Cutthroat.
 We only caught 6 rainbows, two of which where almost black in their spawning colors. I caught mine on my favorite white with red flake Maniac Gitzilla, my buddy caught them on that too, but he started playing, what can I catch them on, the answer was every thing he tried, tube jigs atomic teasers, spoons and various other stuff. I tipped my stuff with meal worm he used salad shrimp. We caught them all through the water column from the bottom up to 10' down.

Nice report, thank you!
Your thoughts on if ice is safe enough to take a tracked vehicle on it?

The conditions are the best they have been all winter, there are a couple layers of slush, but they frozen, tracked vehicles would be good. I would target the Soldier Creek side because access has been limited all winter because of the oil clean up and there has been much less pressure.