01-29-2006, 11:05 PM
Wiperslayer and I fished the Gorge yesterday from 7:30am to 3:30pm, to say it was slow is an under statement. We started off at the second turn off past Buckboard going south. The ice did not look good, so we drilled a test hole a few feet from shore, it was three inches thick. We worked our way out to deeper water, drilling holes as we went, forth hole was only 2.5 inches in 15 foot of water. We bagged that idea and move closer to Buckboard where the ice was thicker, about 5 inches. We moved around all day but ended up having our best luck in 56 to 67ft of water. A lot of fish were coming through between 14 to 46 ft of water but the only bites we got were at 14 ft, 28 ft and 46ft. We weren't sure what they were but we did manage to pull two macks out of 28 ft of water, I was hoping some of the fish would be kokes but that never happened. WH2
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