12-22-2010, 05:39 AM
I took my 4 year old son for his first ice trip on Monday, this was my last day off from a six week paternity leave and I wanted to go out with a bang. So we decided to brave the roads and go some where he could catch a lot of fish. Armed with fishing gear,tent, heater, and portable DVD player(just in case) we left at 6:45 a.m.. The roads were bad, they closed hwy 6 four miles before the turn off. We got to the lake at 11:00, this is normally a 1:45 drive for me from SLC. While parking I got stuck ( 4x4 Tacoma w/ rear differential lock ) and I want to thank the gentleman that quickly stopped on his way home from work and helped me out.
Once down to the lake the slush monster reared it terrible head, neck, shoulders, and so on. There was 5+ inches for slush and four more of snow. I was pulling my boy on the sled and I stepped into a 10" auger hole the snow was hiding, mid thighed it. Remarkably I didn't get wet. ( really good boots snow gear and gators) We set up camp, once inside we fished out of my ice sled and stayed warm and dry. We cleared the slush between the holes. The water was deep enough that when we released the fish we would watch them swim around the ice tent a while before I shoved them down the hole.
The great news is that my boy had a ball, we caught the dinkfest I hope for, and my wife was happy to have us out of the house.
Technical Stuff: fished 18' of water, and glow pimple and ratso worked great. I have fished Scofield the last three weeks and wax worms have out fished any other bait. White plastics have also worked.
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Once down to the lake the slush monster reared it terrible head, neck, shoulders, and so on. There was 5+ inches for slush and four more of snow. I was pulling my boy on the sled and I stepped into a 10" auger hole the snow was hiding, mid thighed it. Remarkably I didn't get wet. ( really good boots snow gear and gators) We set up camp, once inside we fished out of my ice sled and stayed warm and dry. We cleared the slush between the holes. The water was deep enough that when we released the fish we would watch them swim around the ice tent a while before I shoved them down the hole.
The great news is that my boy had a ball, we caught the dinkfest I hope for, and my wife was happy to have us out of the house.
Technical Stuff: fished 18' of water, and glow pimple and ratso worked great. I have fished Scofield the last three weeks and wax worms have out fished any other bait. White plastics have also worked.
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