03-03-2003, 04:04 PM
Well, due to popular demand, heres the report from our trip to fish lake.
A HUGE thanks goes out to the guys on this board. Southern utah duck hunter, extex, fuzzy fisher, and everyone else who gave us some info. Great info guys. made our trip lots nicer. If I can ever return the favor, let me know.
The crew included my pick up truck full of myself, Rip n lips, Bear Lake Mack, and Skeeter2. And the next truck had three more guys who are not users of the internet. Let me tell you, its a good thing they make big huge trucks cause BLM has enough fishing gear for twenty people, rip n lips totes a micro brewery around in his ice sled, and my shantee is freaking huge.
The fishing at fish lake is excellent. Well, at least is you use your rescources here at BFT it can be. You can catch nice rainbows and splake all day long. Shoot its like early season lost creek for fast action but with bigger fish. Just as fast as you can put down sometimes. The mack fishing was a bit slower. We did manage to get a few smaller macks, but none of the ones we were after. BLM is about as dedicated a mack man as you will find. While the rest of us reeled up on the smaller fish and caught numbers he stayed true to his course and left his jig smack on the bottom waiting out a big mack.
Just about everything worked, fireflys in black and red with light heads were killer on the rainbows and splake. Tubes in glow and white were good for macks and splake. Perch liked smaller fireflys and some psycho lure BLM had. Oh did I say that?! Yep, it may be the only time you see it, but the big fish man was fishing for perch! Blm with a soft rod up shallow. What a sight. Now he will tell you he was only there to get bait for the big fish, but I saw the look on his face when he pulled that first perch out of the hole. Pure joy! Then he paraded around the ice with his prize catch for all to see.
It was a fun trip. And may I recomend the aquarius inn hotel in bicknell for those of you who plan a multi day trip down there. Nice rooms, cheap, great resturant right there, very convinient.
BLM caught the state record splake while we were down there. The current record stands at 16 inces out of moon lake. I believe BLMs fish was 22 inches. So, theres a new catch and release picture for the DWR to look at.
It was a fun trip, we lost lots of gear, skeeter lost a pole in the tailgate of my truck, snap! Burned up a belt on his snow mobile. I busted a chair, one ice rod, and a windshield wiper. rip n lips lost his fish finder and locked the keys in my truck. And amazingly the guy with the most gear came away without a scratch.
A HUGE thanks goes out to the guys on this board. Southern utah duck hunter, extex, fuzzy fisher, and everyone else who gave us some info. Great info guys. made our trip lots nicer. If I can ever return the favor, let me know.
The crew included my pick up truck full of myself, Rip n lips, Bear Lake Mack, and Skeeter2. And the next truck had three more guys who are not users of the internet. Let me tell you, its a good thing they make big huge trucks cause BLM has enough fishing gear for twenty people, rip n lips totes a micro brewery around in his ice sled, and my shantee is freaking huge.
The fishing at fish lake is excellent. Well, at least is you use your rescources here at BFT it can be. You can catch nice rainbows and splake all day long. Shoot its like early season lost creek for fast action but with bigger fish. Just as fast as you can put down sometimes. The mack fishing was a bit slower. We did manage to get a few smaller macks, but none of the ones we were after. BLM is about as dedicated a mack man as you will find. While the rest of us reeled up on the smaller fish and caught numbers he stayed true to his course and left his jig smack on the bottom waiting out a big mack.
Just about everything worked, fireflys in black and red with light heads were killer on the rainbows and splake. Tubes in glow and white were good for macks and splake. Perch liked smaller fireflys and some psycho lure BLM had. Oh did I say that?! Yep, it may be the only time you see it, but the big fish man was fishing for perch! Blm with a soft rod up shallow. What a sight. Now he will tell you he was only there to get bait for the big fish, but I saw the look on his face when he pulled that first perch out of the hole. Pure joy! Then he paraded around the ice with his prize catch for all to see.
It was a fun trip. And may I recomend the aquarius inn hotel in bicknell for those of you who plan a multi day trip down there. Nice rooms, cheap, great resturant right there, very convinient.
BLM caught the state record splake while we were down there. The current record stands at 16 inces out of moon lake. I believe BLMs fish was 22 inches. So, theres a new catch and release picture for the DWR to look at.
It was a fun trip, we lost lots of gear, skeeter lost a pole in the tailgate of my truck, snap! Burned up a belt on his snow mobile. I busted a chair, one ice rod, and a windshield wiper. rip n lips lost his fish finder and locked the keys in my truck. And amazingly the guy with the most gear came away without a scratch.