01-07-2015, 12:43 AM
I got cabin fever so I headed over to Starvation to see if there was any open water to dip my tube. Most of the reservoir is capped and there were a couple of guys ice fishing near the bridge when I went by. When I got over to Rabbit Gulch I found what I was looking for, open water. I had to walk a bit to get to where I could launch the tube but by 10:15 I was in the water. There is only a couple of inches of snow on the ground so it's easy walking. I fished until 2:15 and only managed to catch two rainbows and had one other one on. The weather was great with hardly a breeze. I used a fast sinking line (#7) and size 6 leech patterns in olive and white. The fish were caught in 15' -25' FOW using the cast, sink, & strip method. The water temperature was 36 degrees and the visibility in the water was about 12'. It was a slow day fishing but when you can put your tube on a pond in January, I'll take it.
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