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Fished Scofield yesterday, 12-7-2005. Arrived at 7:30 and fished until approx 2:00. Suprisingly the ice was only about 2-1/2 to 3 1/2 inches thick. Hopefully the weather will thicken it up before the week end. The weather was cold and unfortunately the fishing was about the same. We fished just past the dam were the road curves and the are summer homes. Our group of 3 iced about 12 fish. Not a very good day considering I love to make 2-3 trips when Scofield first ices up because the fishing is generally really hot. If it doesn't heat up I will just wait till mud creek gets some ice. I usualy go with a rat finky but tried an orange bodied marabou jig with a white head tipped with a crawler. It seamed to be the best combo for the day as iced 6 myself with 1 pretty rainbow coming in at 20 inches. We saw 2 other groups 1 of three people by the island, 1 group by the boat ramp and another guy who fished by us that only caught 2. Also we had a lot of very lite bumps on the line and caught some small planters. Hope this help anyone planning a trip for this weekend good luck
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Welcome to the board patman and thanks for the report. I'm surprised it is not thicker by now but maybe the snow is insulating it. It is -2 up there right now and last nights low was -23 degrees. That should thinken up some ice kinda fast. How much snow was on the ice and how deep were you fishing? Thanks again for the report!
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The snow on the lake was only about an inch thick and the walk to the lake wasn't bad either. We parked by the trailers that are just past the curve in the road on the south side of the dam. We walked out to a large crack in the ice and drilled our first hole there. When we saw how thick the ice was we moved closer to shore and were fishing in only about 10 feet of water. Nothing happened there so we got some courage and walked out to just past the crack. My buddies fish finder said it was about 20 feet and caught a few there. We moved the last time to 30 feet of water. I hope the ice is thicker by the weekend I just don't understand why it was so slow mabey it just wasn't our day.
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Sounds like a bad theme for the beginning of ice season up at Schofield. Thanks for the report, and welcome to BFT.
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[cool]Thanks for the report, patman and welcome to the site! I usually have my best luck at Scofield between 10-20 feet of water (ice fishing, anyway). I might fish it Saturday, but depends on how some friends of mine do tomorrow at two other lakes. Good luck on your next trip out! What were you tipping your jigs with? Mealies, waxies, crawlers, minnows?
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I was up there with Patman. He and I were tipping our jigs with crawlers and the third member of our party used wax worms. I iced a couple with boogers and paddle bugs. Also had some hits on a minnow tipped jig.
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[cool]THanks for the info. Good luck next trip up there. I've always had good luck there with mealies with the head pinched off to ooze out the juices.
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I did not realize that people had made it all the way to the island! I am for sure not hung like that! I know that there is some springs out there and it really suprises me that someone has gone that far. Few more days and I will be up there. Thanks for the report, Jake
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first thing is welcome to the board.
nice report. i'm headed there on sunday, hope the fishing will pick up some.
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