02-16-2003, 03:48 PM
It is quite a walk from where one parks down to the water (total distance I would estimate is about 3 blocks). The hikes I have taken at Rockport, East Canyon with Wiper2 and even strawberry have been either steeper or longer. We hiked first across the dam and then went straight down the corner of the dam. We fished out about 50 yards (you should be able to see where we fished because we cleared away the snow. We knew that going straight up would be too difficult for going out, so we hiked uplake about 1/2 block and went up an old road, that I assume was used to make the dam. We failed to follow Fuzzy's advice and were towing an ice shack and a sled, with all of the additional gear that one tends to drag along. About the only thing I didn't haul down was my AquaVu, and I wish that I would have also hauled it down. Had we not gotten a lift it probably would have taken us 45 minutes to an hour to get back to the vehicle. The biggest problem is contending with all of the snow drifts. We used various Glow Rat Finkees and similar type lures. Either tipped with wax worms, meal worms, or Pautze Ball of Fire salmon eggs. I used a Swedish Pimple, up my line a couple feet as an attractor, and I caught two on it. The fish averaged about 13 inches, and the largest was about 15 inches, but most are fat and fight hard for cutthroats.
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