Fish Lake 1-12-13

[TyeDyeTwins]

Thanks to my car breaking down in the snowstorm at Sportsmans Wearhouse on Friday night I thought my trip with DuckDog1us to Fish lake on Saturday would be canceled. Not so! Desperate times call for desperate measures.

By 6am I was off to provo in this slick ride............


45 minutes and $5.10 I was in Orem getting into DuckDog's car. The continueous snowfall haunted us all the way to Nephi were we missed the turn off to Gunnison. So we took a detour through I-15 and Avon to Fish Lake. Roads were nice so that might have been a blessing in digiuse acutally.

Arriving at Fish Lake by 10am there was sunshine abound and ice fisherman all around. We settled down just past the Mackinaw Campground and witnessed a perch fest going on. We drilled some test holes for depth measurements and set up in a 6 man tent. The perch were suckers for sucker meat....first drop in the hole resulted in a good sized perch which revealed the pattern for the next few hours. Then came the splake and rainbows for everyone in the tent.


By 2pm the fishing was slumping off and we decided to pack up and head back to Twin Creeks......my favorite spot on that lake!


Sure enough there was a bit of open water that begged to be casted in. 1st cast provided me with a fat rainbow............


After 3 more fish I suddenly got some company (which was fine with me) and I wanted to get back on the ice since DuckDog was slaughtering them in the tent.


We couldn't keep the splake away!!!!!!!!!!!


The action was lights out till dark....................


In a group of 3 we caught around 75 splake, 47 yellow perch, 25 rainbows, and 1 sucker. The drive back was a bit slow from Gunnison to Nephi but I still caught the 9:05pm train in Orem back to SLC.
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[fish_fear_me2]

Glad the train service got you on your fishing trip. Looks like it was a good day. Thanks for sharing. How big were the perch running?
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[JustJim]

Nice! Glad you made it down. Must have been something in the air this weekend with the vehicles breaking. Hmmm.
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[TyeDyeTwins]

[quote fish_fear_me2]Glad the train service got you on your fishing trip. Looks like it was a good day. Thanks for sharing. How big were the perch running?[/quote]

All were 8 to 10.5 inches long. Pretty meaty though compared to the average perch you find in Utah these days.
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[fish_fear_me2]

10.5 is a really decent perch. I have caught bigger but I would be happy to fill a bucket with perch that size.
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[TyeDyeTwins]

DuckDog really wanted one over 11 inches and it didn't happen. I was glad to just see eater sized perch but the other tents around us seemed to have perch that were smaller. There were no minnow perch for us.
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[fish_fear_me2]

It seems this thread has been officially hijacked.[laugh] Glad the twins had a good trip.

[#0000BF]Not any longer, I moved the highjacking to a new thread. Kent[/#0000BF]
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[PIKEMAN99]

Yeah I wish they would just boycott the trouble makers. You would think if the man had a degree in something he would learn to use a little disgression as when to talk and when not, and maybe try to be a little more up lifting. Maybe we will have to check into seeing if he is on company time using mine and yours tax dollars doing this stuff. I love Perch at Fish Lake.
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[PBH]

[quote PIKEMAN99]Yeah I wish they would just boycott the trouble makers. You would think if the man had a degree in something he would learn to use a little disgression as when to talk and when not, and maybe try to be a little more up lifting. Maybe we will have to check into seeing if he is on company time using mine and yours tax dollars doing this stuff. I love Perch at Fish Lake.[/quote]

Who you talking about?

by the way, discussions of perch in this thread have been forbidden.
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