09-01-2006, 11:44 PM
[cool][#0000ff]It won't be much longer until ice fishing time, and the minnows at E-Lake are still swarming the shallows. So-o-o-o myself, BearLakeMack and Petty4Life decided to have a high level moderatin' conference and minnow harvest.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We all had minnow traps in the water before 10 AM, while TubeBabe kicked her tube across the inlet channel trying to find some troutskis. While the traps soaked BLM and Petty teamed up with one cast net and I went solo with mine. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]TubeBabe didn't get any trout...having only a couple of small hits. The minnow mods saw some small trout chasing minnows as we were trying to catch them in our cast nets, but they were well fed and would not play with TubeBabe. Water temp was 70 in the shallows but only 61 along the deep bank across from where we parked.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We got grundles of minnows, but most were pretty small. Good ice fishing size, but not the bigguns BLM was hoping for to serve up at the Gorge this month.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The water has dropped a couple of feet in the last month. Once the water temp drops a few more degrees the bank fishing should improve too. The folks trying that today didn't seem to be doing much.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We all had minnow traps in the water before 10 AM, while TubeBabe kicked her tube across the inlet channel trying to find some troutskis. While the traps soaked BLM and Petty teamed up with one cast net and I went solo with mine. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]TubeBabe didn't get any trout...having only a couple of small hits. The minnow mods saw some small trout chasing minnows as we were trying to catch them in our cast nets, but they were well fed and would not play with TubeBabe. Water temp was 70 in the shallows but only 61 along the deep bank across from where we parked.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We got grundles of minnows, but most were pretty small. Good ice fishing size, but not the bigguns BLM was hoping for to serve up at the Gorge this month.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The water has dropped a couple of feet in the last month. Once the water temp drops a few more degrees the bank fishing should improve too. The folks trying that today didn't seem to be doing much.[/#0000ff]
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