Berry 3-5

[2knots]

Had this trip planned for few weeks to take my daughter, her best friend and husband out for their first ever ice fishing trip. Rangled Obi into going along for support and having some extra gear with the newbies. Wasn’t sure we were going to pull it off with the weather forecast but decided to give it a shot as it looked like there was going to be a window in the am. Met Obi at 4:15 in Riverdale and head up to meet the others in Heber at 6. Roads were good, got to Park City area and the fog was thick and then going into Heber the highway was closed due to an accident so had to detour through Midway. Got to the lake around 6:45 and headed to the east side from the marina with the ATV and snowmobile, set up in 80’ of water. Shawn and I got my crew set up with rods and the fishing started, the larger white tubes weren’t getting the attention they were on the last trip so ended up changing over to crappie tubes and Gizzilas in white tipped with crawler pieces. 1st fish was a koke on the jawjacker at 12’, then the cutt action started and continued through the day. Fish were just under the ice and down to 12’, 50’ and at 70’, all areas produced. Bite was pretty much very lite with fish grabbing the tubes and just sitting there, so ended up switching the girls over to some perch rods that were able to detect the slight movement. That helped them and they were able to detect the bite and put fish on the ice, Tyler having fished a lot before picked it up very quickly. It didn’t take them long to key in on the fish finder and start chasing marks and hooking up, they put at least 30 fish on the ice and missed a bunch more. Ty got 1 slot buster for sure and maybe 1 other that came off after pulling it up and then slid down another hole. As none of them had been on a snowmobile, they did spend a few minutes each riding around the lake.  There was about 6”s of fresh snow and no slush, ice is at least 20”, weather was great with no wind, sun and a couple snow storms came through. Big thanks to Shawn for the help, fun day with my daughter and her friends. Shawn spent some time moving around as usual  and did well, he can add those details