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Been hitting PV but not today...pre-staging for an upcoming trip to the land hopefully of Perchzillas. Anyhoo fishing roughly 30FOW and away from crowds and shotgun ice. Using Atomic Ants tipped with either waxie, colored maggot or a combo of both. Finding jigging is putting fish on the deck...have had others come and ask us what were using show them and tell them at least for us dead sticking ain't working gotta jig and gotta have a bite indicator. Drop offerings down reel up say 3-5' jig, pause, jig, jig, jig pause and fish start coming up from bottom or show up on flasher. At times our flashers are lite up all the way to 15FOW. Have to wade through the dinks but the larger Crappie are there and finky. Also managed to ice a PV Brown thought for sure it was you-know-who till we saw it zooming at the bottom of the ice hole. Fun all the same.
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Thats a lot of fish to fillet...
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Pineview brown, is that what you call them?
nice job on the crappie
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Now that's what we like to see! Great job.
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Nice report.
I got 2 of them PV Browns through the ice last year.
Bitter sweet catch.
Have a great dinner.
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When I was a kid I caught a tiger trout out of PV when I had my 23' boat and we were targeting some bass in brushes.
All of the trouts that you catch from PV come out of causey [laugh].
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Some northerners have adopted the label "Golden Tarpon" after a few reel squeeling runs. I'll blame Skunked for coining that one.
I'm sure some of my little perch poles would be toast if faced with a 10lb buglemouth!
Nice pile of filets-to-be. How big were your best slabs and stripes.
Always appreciate your details on tools and techniques.
I oft use a Jigger-totter, and find a bounce bounce, jiggle, then dead, and it's when still that I get bit, or notice the bite anyway.
Though free-handing it, I often find the drop leads to a dip, and thus, a strike. Or, on the lift, there's weight.
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[quote CoyoteSpinner] How big were your best slabs and stripes. quote]
Up to 10" most 8-9" did find a willing 12" along with smaller ones 6-7 and the ones that didn't want to go back down the ice hole. Perch pushing 8-9".
[quote Flyfishinglover]All of the trouts that you catch from PV come out of causey [laugh].[/quote]
Nope they don't all come from Causey as Trout are planted in the arms of the Ogden rivers that feed PV and make their way down the fishy highway during high water runoffs look at a map of rivers that feed PV. So not all Trout come from Causey, yes some do but not 'all of the trout' in PV.
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