Soldier Creek on Saturday-FINALLY A DECENT TRIP!

[Marathonman]

We launched off at the Soldier creek ramp on the north side, by the highway, I didn't mark any fish for a long time and I thought my locator was not working worth a crap. We hung by the shore and nada, finally went to the middle and started marking fish deep, 45-100 ft.
My daughter got a 21" cutt trolling about 5 feet under. We caught 4 good sized rainbows and 5 small 10". We trolled along the steep shorline.
Now I finally found my icefishing area.
I found it hard to believe that with so much water, there were so much empty areas.
The wind turned real bad so I'm glad I had an extra battery to get back to the dock. It turned COLD!
All fish were released. While we were there, a front end loader was pulling up all the docks. I feel sorry for the boat that didn't make it back on time. We missed alot of strikes, used rapapas, flatfish, small kastmaster.
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[TylerKunz]

I'm glad that I wasn't the only one catching dinkers in sc... I'd say more than half our fish on saturday were under 12". Smallest I have ever had from that lake. But I will say a bunch of small fish is better than no fish! Nice report and thanks for sharing
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[MasterDaad]

Interesting comment about your fish finder.... about 10am Saturday mine decided not to ping fish below the thermal barrier.

I didn't ping a single fish for the last 90 minutes of our trip.

And we reeled in 6 good-sized Cutts.
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[Lunkers]

Thanks for the update. Did you notice how shore fising was?
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[Marathonman]

Bad. Too shallow unless you fish by cliffs. Very weedy by shore.
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