03-03-2003, 08:26 PM
Sounds like you did better than I did with the scouts.
We ended up heading out to Haw's Point. It was snowing fairly heavily when we got there (about 9:00am) so I didn't want to take them out too far. We actually drove up there through Provo canyon in near white-out conditions, could barely tell where we were supposed to be on the road and had the 4x4 locked in.
About mid-day the sky cleared and turned beautiful for the rest of the day.
We had 10 of us out there trying several different set-ups and depths with only a few fish showing on the finder. One fish was caught about 10' deep over 60' of water on a glow tube jig.
Through the rest of the day, we only had a handful of bites. None of the scouts caught anything (couldn't keep them watching their poles for long enough to see the bites). I caught one 17' cutt right at the bottom in 20' of water, probably about 1' off the bottom. Had another bite later in the same spot, but I was off helping one of the scouts and couldn't get to my pole in time. I was using a small glow tube jig tipped with one of those super glittery marshmallow shaped powerbait things. Those often work quite well ice fishing.
In all we brought in a total of 2 fish. A very slow day. But it still beat spending the day sitting at home. Even when it was snowing it was comfortable as there wasn't any wind all day long.
As for ice conditions....probably around 20" of ice where we were. Slush layer was almost non-existant, but there was some slush closer to the middle of the bay there. Probably about 6-8" of snow on top.
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We ended up heading out to Haw's Point. It was snowing fairly heavily when we got there (about 9:00am) so I didn't want to take them out too far. We actually drove up there through Provo canyon in near white-out conditions, could barely tell where we were supposed to be on the road and had the 4x4 locked in.
About mid-day the sky cleared and turned beautiful for the rest of the day.
We had 10 of us out there trying several different set-ups and depths with only a few fish showing on the finder. One fish was caught about 10' deep over 60' of water on a glow tube jig.
Through the rest of the day, we only had a handful of bites. None of the scouts caught anything (couldn't keep them watching their poles for long enough to see the bites). I caught one 17' cutt right at the bottom in 20' of water, probably about 1' off the bottom. Had another bite later in the same spot, but I was off helping one of the scouts and couldn't get to my pole in time. I was using a small glow tube jig tipped with one of those super glittery marshmallow shaped powerbait things. Those often work quite well ice fishing.
In all we brought in a total of 2 fish. A very slow day. But it still beat spending the day sitting at home. Even when it was snowing it was comfortable as there wasn't any wind all day long.
As for ice conditions....probably around 20" of ice where we were. Slush layer was almost non-existant, but there was some slush closer to the middle of the bay there. Probably about 6-8" of snow on top.
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