11-29-2015, 12:52 AM
Have been planning to take up the pontoon boats up to chase whitefish for a little while and today was the only day my buddy and I could make time to go. Woke up to snow on the ground and started to second think my decision.
After a phone call at 6 o clock we both decided that we didn't want to drive a trailer through the canyon we were still
on if we would brave the canyon at all. We resolved to wait a couple hours and see what the weather was like.
After laying in sleepless in bed waiting I decided to drive to the mouth of the canyon to check road conditions and see if the road was closed. While I was waiting I decided to try out the jigs that I bought. I haven't used jigs other than for ice fishing, so I took a few casts from the pier at first dam.
First cast, bang, fish on. A nice little 12" Brown. I ended up catching a small rainbow and another brown slightly larger than the first before my fishing buddy showed up.
The drive through the canyon was slow, and steady, but we didn't slide around at all really. The four wheel drive handled it easily.
When we got there we drove around to the east side of the lake and found a rocky shore then started fishing. There was a pull off to park, but I don't know what it was called. We spent about a half hour there with no luck then decided to drive a little farther down the shoreline.
First cast in the new spot, again no clue on the name of the place, fish on. It was a smaller whitefish but I kept it because I wasn't sure we would catch many more. Thankfully I was wrong. We didn't stay long because it was pretty cold, but we ended up catching 5 each on jigs tipped with worm. We only had one pair of wader between us and we only caught fish if we waded out a little, so we could have caught more if we hadn't forgot the other pair of waders.
All of the fish we caught were Whites except one stray silvery rainbow. The largest whitefish was a 20".
All in all a fun day. If you are going up, jigs tipped with worm worked well. Make sure you bring waders, and move around until you find the fish.
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After a phone call at 6 o clock we both decided that we didn't want to drive a trailer through the canyon we were still
on if we would brave the canyon at all. We resolved to wait a couple hours and see what the weather was like.After laying in sleepless in bed waiting I decided to drive to the mouth of the canyon to check road conditions and see if the road was closed. While I was waiting I decided to try out the jigs that I bought. I haven't used jigs other than for ice fishing, so I took a few casts from the pier at first dam.
First cast, bang, fish on. A nice little 12" Brown. I ended up catching a small rainbow and another brown slightly larger than the first before my fishing buddy showed up.
The drive through the canyon was slow, and steady, but we didn't slide around at all really. The four wheel drive handled it easily.
When we got there we drove around to the east side of the lake and found a rocky shore then started fishing. There was a pull off to park, but I don't know what it was called. We spent about a half hour there with no luck then decided to drive a little farther down the shoreline.
First cast in the new spot, again no clue on the name of the place, fish on. It was a smaller whitefish but I kept it because I wasn't sure we would catch many more. Thankfully I was wrong. We didn't stay long because it was pretty cold, but we ended up catching 5 each on jigs tipped with worm. We only had one pair of wader between us and we only caught fish if we waded out a little, so we could have caught more if we hadn't forgot the other pair of waders.
All of the fish we caught were Whites except one stray silvery rainbow. The largest whitefish was a 20".
All in all a fun day. If you are going up, jigs tipped with worm worked well. Make sure you bring waders, and move around until you find the fish.
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