12-29-2013, 04:09 PM
Just got home from another great gorge trip. Started off Friday morning before light looking for mac pups. The water is down fifteen feet. It is only 55' deep instead of 70'. Our group just didn't mark as many Macs as usual. Probably due to the shallower water.
My goal was to catch a limit of pups and a limit of rainbows even though I wasnt planning on keeping any the first day. I finished my eight mac at 11:30. The offering of the day was a pearl/chartreuse 2.5" fats freshwater basics tube on a 1/4 glow head. All pups around 20" for the trip.
The rainbows proved tougher fair. The main point where you park got pounded all weekend so I steered clear and tried all the way across the green river arm. All that produced was a couple of lookers. I finally found a few down towards the outhouse on the blacksfork arm in 9' of water. I caught 3 18" faties an 4 finless fredies.
Saturday produced the most beautiful sunrise I have ever seen ice fishing and 5 Macs before calling it quits at 10:30. Didn't fish for any slimy mutants.
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My goal was to catch a limit of pups and a limit of rainbows even though I wasnt planning on keeping any the first day. I finished my eight mac at 11:30. The offering of the day was a pearl/chartreuse 2.5" fats freshwater basics tube on a 1/4 glow head. All pups around 20" for the trip.
The rainbows proved tougher fair. The main point where you park got pounded all weekend so I steered clear and tried all the way across the green river arm. All that produced was a couple of lookers. I finally found a few down towards the outhouse on the blacksfork arm in 9' of water. I caught 3 18" faties an 4 finless fredies.
Saturday produced the most beautiful sunrise I have ever seen ice fishing and 5 Macs before calling it quits at 10:30. Didn't fish for any slimy mutants.
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