Huntington Reservoir Ice?

[wel-don_fishing]

Looking to fish Huntington Reservoir by Electric Lake this weekend
Any recent reports of ice conditions there?
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[MacFisher]

Headed up that way tomorrow. I'll post my findings with some pictures when I get back.
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[wel-don_fishing]

Any info would be much appreciated!
Good luck
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[TroutMan93]

I was up up there Sunday and the ice is just fine. I would say about 8-12 inches but I'm nit exactly sure. I was too busy catching fish to properly measure it. [] There is about a foot or more of snow on top with some really slick ice underneath it. Good luck.

Try a 1/16th oz white glow jig head with a 1" gulp minnow. They would usually hit it on the fall.
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[wel-don_fishing]

Some beautiful fish you caught!
Thanks for the tip on what jig to use
I will have a first timer with me and want to make sure they enjoy it
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[MacFisher]

It's my nephews birthday tomorrow and will be his first time on the ice. I hope to get into them and watch him have a blast. Again I will post when we get home tomorrow. Thanks for the tips.
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[FishMcFisherson]

Hey TroutMan, I was up there Sunday as well. Did you catch anything besides Tigers? Are there any fish besides tigers in there? Also, did you catch anything of size? All the fish we caught were tigers between 13-16 inches.

I tried quite a few different jigs, but did best with a very small white/yellow sparkled tube jig on a 1/32 oz head tipped with a piece of crawler.
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[TroutMan93]

The only other fish in Huntington I think is Cutthroat, but you have to release all the ones you catch. I was supposed to meet up with you and Eric but the fishing was too good where I was. Do you have a green eskimo tent? I asked a guy that was next to Erics clam tent how he was doing...maybe it was you or maybe it wasn't.

All of the tigers I caught averaged about 15"-18" and the biggest was well over 20" and my best guess about 5lbs. I couldn't snap a pic of him because while I was busy with the mess he made of my two lines and transducer he flopped back into the hole. Whether you believe it or not is up to you. Eric didn't believe me haha.
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[FishMcFisherson]

Haha yeah, I had quite a few tangle messes as well. That wasn't me in the green eskimo, but the other guy that was with us. He did the best out of the 3 of us. But the biggest he managed was 17".
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[brookieguy1]

Nice tigers. Those silver females.....yum yum....those colored up males, well good luck on eating them!
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[wagdog]

I guess I've never paid attention to the taste difference between male and female tigers. Maybe I've only ever caught all one type. Are the males that bad brookieguy?
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[doggonefishin]

[quote wagdog]I guess I've never paid attention to the taste difference between male and female tigers. Maybe I've only ever caught all one type. Are the males that bad brookieguy?[/quote]


I've noticed the same thing as brookieguy. The palest fish (tiger trout) have the reddest, tastiest meat. The fish that are brightly colored generally have a paler, less flavorful flesh. Usually, but not always, the most colorful fish are males. The females will show color at times as well and in certain times of the year the males will be paler too.

By my observation, color in tigers is more key than only gender, but the males are the more colorful fish most of the time, so most of the best tasting fish at any one time will be the females.
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[brookieguy1]

Tiger trout are sterile, therefore the females will never have eggs. The males, however, still undergo the changes of a false-spawn, and the meat for some reason turns a pale, waxy color and really tastes somewhat foul. The females, year round, retain full sided meat and bright red flanks. YUM!
Fertile fish of all trout species tend to be less than desirable during the spawn. Males get the pale flesh and females lose a large portion of their flank-meat to egg developement. Look for the bright-silver females that are not egg laden. Avoid the dark colored spawners.
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[wagdog]

Good to know. I knew they were sterile but I thought that the females would still produce eggs and the males still produce milt. I caught some cutbows in idaho a couple of years ago that were sterile but they produced eggs and milt but no young are hatched from that. Sounds like tigers are a little different. I love catching tiger trout though. The first time I caught one was years ago and I swear they fight bigger than they are. Thanks for the info!
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[FishMcFisherson]

Hey, I just noticed on [url "http://www.utahfishfinder.com/fishing.shtml"]http://www.utahfishfinder.com/fishing.shtml[/url] that they posted our reports from this thread.

Now that we're official published authors, we can probably go ahead and retire.
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[Flyfishinglover]

That website and the dnr website have been doing it since I did my first scofield report lol. []
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[Kent]

[quote FishMcFisherson]

Hey, I just noticed on [url "http://www.utahfishfinder.com/fishing.shtml"]http://www.utahfishfinder.com/fishing.shtml[/url] that they posted our reports from this thread.

Now that we're official published authors, we can probably go ahead and retire.

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That is first class of Rich to give credit for the source of the information as being from BFT.
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