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It has been snowing all morning. When I was getting into my car a saw a jogger, plodding through the snow. I thought to myself 'That guy must be nuts.' Then I remembered I had been sitting on ice for the past two hours. Maybe that jogger is not as nuts as I thought.
Fished First Dam from 7 to 9 this morning. Snowed the whole time. Now everything is soaked. I had over a dozen hits but couldn't hook any. Just one fish would have been nice but oh well.
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It stopped snowing. I might have to go back out.
It's crazy to sit in the house all winter, but it's also crazy to leave the nice warm house and go sit on the ice in the wind and snow. I think almost anything anyone does can be crazy by someone elses view. Enough philosophizing - where's my pole?
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THE FIRST DAM OF WHERE? AND YES WE ARE ALL NUTS. THATS WHY WE ARE SOOOOO MUCH FUN!! AND THATS HOW WE GET TO FISHING, TO ALLEIVIATE THE NUTS SYNDROME, YOU EVER WALK TO A MEETING OR SOMETHING AND JUST SEE ANYTHING AND YOUR MIND IMMEDIATLY POPS TO FISHING? THAT IS THE BEST KINDA CRAZY MY MAN, THE BEST. OTHER WISE I WOULD PUT MONEY ON MOST OF US BECOMING GRUMPY OLD MEN TOO EARLY IN LIFE. THAT GOES FOR YOU NUTTY LADIES OUT THERE TOO....BUT YOU ARE MOSTLY DRIVEN BY US MEN AND THE KIDS. HENCE THE OUTLET. THEY DONT CALL IT GOING NUTS, OR GOING FISHING, FOR NOTHING. ONE LEADS TO THE OTHER ANY WAY YOU LOOK AT IT. YOU EITHER HAVE A GREAT DAY CATCHING AND GO NUTS TO GO OUT AGAIN, OR YOU ARE DRIVEN NUTS BY THE HORRIBLE BITE AND CANT UNDERSTAND WHY 2000 DOLARS WORTH OF GEAR AND LURES CANT CATCH ONE LITTLE 5 POUND FISH.....OR EVEN A HALF POUND SUCKER AT THAT. AMEN.
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Dude, you are nuts. I saw that ice this morning and it looked cruddy. You need to be extremely careful there by the dam because it only takes a couple of days of slightly warmer weather for the ice to thin when the water is moving underneath. Besides, the fish in first dam aren't big enough to risk it...
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Fishdude, yea I might be a little nuts. I was walking on eggshells for the first 15 feet or so. The ice was at least 6 or 7in after that. I didn't check the first 15 feet. I didn't want to stop long enough. Send me a PM if you want to fish together sometime.
Badfish, First Dam is on the Logan River. It's a tiny reservoir and that's what it's called. There are two more dams upstream a little.
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I might consider it sometime, but I'm pretty sure you wont see me out on the ice at first dam after what it looked like today. Saw some guys contemplating whether to go out on it when I was on my way home from work at about 5:00 this afternoon. I almost stopped to see if they would go through so there would be someone there to throw a rope!
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Whats your phone number? I might give you a call somtime from under ice. he he
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KEWL MAN, I STOPPED AND FISHED THAT LAST FALL ON MY WAY HOME FROM BEAR LAKE. I HIT THE SECOND, FIRST AND IS THERE A THIRD TOO......AND UP THE CANYON MORE I FISHED AN AREA THAT MAY HAVE BEEN A FOURTH, BUT I WOULDNT REALLY CALL WHAT IT HAD RETAINING WATER A DAM. GOOD LITTLE TROUT OUTTA THOSE HOLES, FUN TOO.....ISNT THE FIRST ONE RIGHT AFTER THE COLLEGE AS YOU COME DOWN THE HILL TO CANYON ROAD? IF YOU GO STRAIGHT YOU HEAD UP THE CANYON TO BEAR LAKE RIGHT. I THINK I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT AND CAN HONESTLY SAY.....YEAH YOU ARE NUTS, I WOULDNT BRAVE THOSE WATERS DURING THE ICE SEASON, ESPECIALLY BEING ON A RIVER, WITH THE CURRENT AND ALL....EASY WAY TO DIE MAN. SUGGESTION, GET ABOUT 150 FEET OF CLIMBING ROPE, TIE ONE END TO THE FRAME OF YOUR CAR, TIE THE OTHER END AROUND YOUR WAIST, IF YOU FALL IN JUST PULL YOURSELF OUTTA THE WATER, I WAS WATCHING A SHOW ON SURVIVAL, HYPOTHRMIA WAS A SUBJECT, IT WORKS IN LIKE 10 MINUTE INTERVALS, THE FIRST 10 YOU ARE COLD AND CAN MOVE, THE NEXT TEN YOU CANT MOVE AND SOMEONE HAS TO HELP YOU BUT YOU ARE OKAY, AFTER THAT THE EXPERTS SAID TO GET YOUR ARMS AND STUFF UP ON THE ICE AND DONT THRASH AROUND, IF YOUR LUCKY YOUR ARMS WILL FREEZE TO THE ICE SO WHEN YOU PASS OUT TEN MINUTES LATER YOU WONT FALL INTO THE WATER AND DROWN. THEN AFTER YOU ARE UNCONCIOUS YOU HAVE ANN HOUR TILL YOUR HEART STOPS. HOPEFULLY BY THEN SOMEONE WILL HAVE GONE BY AND CALLED HELP FOR YOU, THEN YOU JUST HAVE TO RECOVER, AND LOP OFF THE FROSTBITTEN PARTS, THEY SAY YOU CAN DRY OFF BY ROLLING AND RUBBING DRY SNOW ALL OVER YOURSELF TOO.....FOR ONE I PERSONALLY DONT WANT TO TRY ANY OF THESE "TIPS" OUT. JUST TIE A ROPE TO YOUR BUTT SO YOU CAN GET OUT IN THAT FIRST TEN MINUTES.
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hashbaz,
I have been reading your posts about first dam for a while. In fact, on your first post I warned you to stay off the ice. I used to live in Logan too and I have fished most parts of the Logan at least once. I used to live off of the trout out on first and third dams. Man, I would not go on the ice! It is not worth it. If you break through and go under and get caught it the current of that cold, cold, water, you won't have the strength to swim back to the hole in the ice. You'd be a gonner. Heck, the water in the Logan river is ice cold even in the heat of July. Just be careful. Play it safe.
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