Red hot Scofield!!!!!

[Carp_Punisher]

[#505000]Well I wish it was red hot because I froze my butt off for 3 fish!!![/#505000]
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[#505000]Fishluvr and I hit Scofield this morning at 6:30am and fished until 2pm. We moved around quite a bit. We saw a lot of fish on the finders and would watch them swim up to both our jigs but they just weren't hungry. [/#505000]
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[#505000]The few we did catch hit so light you have to be "cocked and ready" to make a hookset. We probably looked like a couple of goofballs with all the missed hooksets but we did catch some fish.[/#505000]
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[#505000]Based on my ice fishing experience this season compared to last I gotta say this year doesn't seem nearly as good as last. Seems the fish are hitting light and sporadically. Scofield has been particullary bad. [/#505000]
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[#505000]Anyone have any ideas why?[/#505000]
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[Out4Trout]

[cool]Hey, at least you got out on the ice today, Gary. Some of us had to work. As for Scofield, my experience has always been that the ice fishing is o.k. in January (on), but I've always had my best luck there within 2-3 weeks after it's frozen. After that the masses usually slam it pretty hard and the fish get pretty pressured on that South to SouthEast side of the lake. By then, I'm usually up at Strawberry going after the BIG trout, but this year still haven't made it up there (I know, something is seriously wrong with me). So far, Hunington is the only troutery I've fished at. I've been after warm water fish through the ice so far, but I'm gonna go chase some big slimers next Saturday (the 14th).
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[fishluvr]

We thought the same thing about early ice being the best because last year we killed them during early ice. This year though I have yet to hear any great reports from Scofield. Last year everyone seemed to be catching tons of fish through the ice, just not this year.
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[ocean]

Hey at least you got out this year to ice fish!![] I still havent had the chance to get on the ice.One thing that does help a lot when ice fishing is having a strike detector.It helped me out a lot last year when i first started ice fishing.Also light line does help too.I swiched from 6lb to 4 lb and it did make a difference.My daughter and me cant wait till we get on the ice!!
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[fishandbake]

[unsure]dont feel to bad cause that was pretty much the same story we had at the ladders up at strawberry on saturday night also!! we threw everything at them for 5 hours and just had very soft bumps [] , we used minnows,mill worms hell we even used power bait [crazy]and large and small jigs, and on the fish finder you could see them playing (going from my friends setup then dropping down to mine ) but nothing hard enough to allow us to get a hook set !! makes me wounder if that storm front didnt have something to do with it . i guess ya never know !! at least we tryed though []
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[Carp_Punisher]

[#505000]One step ahead of you!! We actually were using stike indicators and they didn't even hit hard enough to move them much at all. To catch em you had to have the pole in hand and try for a hookset when you felt the slightest tick. The hits felt like what you would expect if a shiner was tapping your bait. It was really odd. I was worried the skunk was going to latch onto me there for awhile until I figured out I had to have th pole in hand and my eyes glued to teh fishfinder to catch anything.[/#505000]

[#505000]I fished Scofield all last year and even my worst late season days last year were hotter than Scofield has been at all this year. [/#505000]
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[ocean]

Where do you plan on going this saturday? Have you been to huntington lately i wonder if the lake is under a ton of snow.Man i need to go somewhere and drill a hole!!![]
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[SkinnyLynnie]

When we went to Scofield last week, I was using a strike indicator also, and it never moved--except for the one time I got a nibble. I was beginning to think that there were no fish left at Scofield. At least your finder showed that they were down there. That's good news.
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[Carp_Punisher]

[#505000]I even saw schools move through every 20 minutes or so, but still no hard takers.[/#505000]
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[phison]

how deep were you fishing?
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[fishluvr]

We fished anywhere from 10 to 28 feet. The last spot we were in was about 17 feet and we had the most bites here.
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[Out4Trout]

[cool]Don't have a kitchen pass for Saturday, but Friday night I'm going to the berry with fishin4fun for a little night ice action. Should be fun. I've never night icefished before, so it will be a blast. It's almost time to chase Walleye at Utah Lake again, though! Can't wait for that.
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[phison]

we were in 7ft of water on the south end and did pretty well with swedish pimples and mealworms mostly planters though, no jigging involved, just strike indicators.
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