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Went to yuba with a friend ice fishing for pike for our first time. Not many people have been there. 1 other group near the island at painted rocks. Maybe 1or 2 others people there before. No holes. Maybe for good reason, we used a lot of different lures and baits at different depths, but not one bite. Maybe 1 look and sniff. Carp all over couldnt tell what was what on my finder. Couldnt even land a carp. We were there all day and ended with a wet dog covered in 1000 burs to show for it. Ice is plenty thick, mostly clear with little snow and water level is low. Ramp was mostly clear of snow by the end of the day.
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I think Yuba could be a fantastic fishery if we could first get a much larger holding pool for the state so that they can keep a hell of a lot of water in it, and secondly remove a ton or two of carp. The great eating machines known as Pike will make short order of the Perch and Walleye when there is no cover.
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I am with you on this Gooseberry. I will fish on a good solid 4" but it has to be cold (below freezing) all day for me. But am comfy on 6+
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The ice was about 5 inches around the edges and close to the shore than about 3 inches towards the middle. Its solid though. Guess we will head back in the spring for pike. And yea the dog literally was covered in about 1,000,000 burrs.
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It froze in patches. Looked like it was unsafe in spots but ended up being thicker than it appeared. Water near the edges by the end of the day and ice might be hard to get onto soon.
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Why are they trying to kill pike
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they are really good predators and they mow through fish populations.... right?
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For some reason they want to bring perch and walleye back by lowering the pike pop. but walleye and pike have a consumption advisory on them. I think they need to get rid of the carp, they are way too overpopulated and i would think they are crowding out the perch and walleye and eating all the food.
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I Think they should dedicated It to pike like Newton with tiger musky there is perch every where I think utah needs bigger fish like that to mix it up a little bit I love variety like that I also think Dnr needs to wait till the trout would grow to 17 18 in even 20 to 24 and the release Them instead of 12 to 13 utah has A LOT of smaller fish in it and it kind of sucks reallY and then like Newton some people complain about having Tiger muskie instead of panfish I pike are are awesome why not just leave them
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It's just my two cents
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Thanks for the report. I think the ice is going to be sketchy all over now. Don't see any cold coming in the near future let alone snow which we need badly,
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Thanks for the report! Took us 4 trips last year before figuring landing one.