12-29-2021, 04:04 PM
I was one of the crazy people that decided to brave the roads on Sunday, I should have known it was a bad idea when I pulled over in Island park to relieve myself on the way up and had to dig myself out of a snow drift and then again when I dug someone else out a couple miles down the road. I got set up on 8” of ice at the hatchery the weather was nice on the lake light winds I set up my shelter and didn’t use it. I caught 11 in 4 hours and bagged it around noon when my wife called talking about road closures. At 12:30 I reached a long column of cars and trucks at the intersection of HW87 and HW20 where we all waited untill 8pm for the plows to clear snow drifts in the highway and let us through. I got back to my Mother in-laws in Idaho Falls at 10:30pm. The bite was really light, I got them all on my favorite white with red flake Gitzilla tipped with meal worm. No pictures, no Giants 2-3 pounders and 1 6” Brookie.