01-17-2010, 02:12 AM
Myself, dad (wifes) and buddy hit Rock port about 10am on the ice. walked out to 46feet of water at 32 degrees and proceeded to hand auger 4 holes in a triangle (???) and soak bait. i have pretty good blades on my HAND AUGER, but that ice was hard and about 12 to 13 inched thick!!! we had to have one guy put pressure on the top of the auger and one turn the handle and the third keep it inline as we drilled so we got the finder in the water in the first hole, then began the triangle shape around it for three of us to fish, after the first hole is done they tell me to drop line while they start the sencond and third holes, after about 20 minutes my rod goes down on the Mr. Jigger, I am rigging up my dad's line for him so i tell my buddy to grab it. last NIGHT i fave him a new ice rod for his B-Day, this was his second outing ice fishing. he sets the hook and starts to reel, then stops reeling allowing a bit of slack in the line and presto, long line release a fish down the ice hole. thats one strike for freind. I just tried to gt him the "first" fish. HA!
Fishing was slow, after missing a taste or two, i say taste, the fish were not taking or hitting a bait they were tasting it ALL DAY. I finally hooked up to a decent 16 inch bow. Ate lunch(leftover lamb roast), drank some beer, had a celabratory nip of jack and/or Crown for the fish. Guys on a snowmobile pull up approx 30 yard south drill holes start to fish next to us, after some time they pack it in and head toward us on track down to the dam! guy stops next to us, looks at me in my beanie (BFT) and says "Dubob" I say "Badfish" then he points out where they were just at and says "dont fish over there, not a fish around" we shoot some shop talk he gives me the low down on the silly guy south west of us that took his wife fishing and of course she had a HUGE bow over there and he had a minnow. I never did catch the other fellows name with Dubob, but it was good to meet him out on the hard deck.
after about another 2 hours, we are about 4 hours into the day now that began at 10, Buddy hooks up and ices a 12 and a half inch bow. after several more "tastings" and no hook ups, we head out for SLC at 4pm, water temp was at 43 or 44, and the depth was still 46 feet. I dont know rock port very well so i have no names of the coves or anything, but from where we was at on the dam end of the lake, the boat ramp was just about straight across from us and maybe south 50 yards at most. did not make it over that way, we stayed in one spot all day, the guys to the north of us, had a tent with some sort of heating devise and they actually shoveled off the lake and were ice skating on the area they cleared.
all in all, sunny weather, occasional W but not bad, good company and two fish... cant complain for taking a saturday to go drill ice holes...
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Fishing was slow, after missing a taste or two, i say taste, the fish were not taking or hitting a bait they were tasting it ALL DAY. I finally hooked up to a decent 16 inch bow. Ate lunch(leftover lamb roast), drank some beer, had a celabratory nip of jack and/or Crown for the fish. Guys on a snowmobile pull up approx 30 yard south drill holes start to fish next to us, after some time they pack it in and head toward us on track down to the dam! guy stops next to us, looks at me in my beanie (BFT) and says "Dubob" I say "Badfish" then he points out where they were just at and says "dont fish over there, not a fish around" we shoot some shop talk he gives me the low down on the silly guy south west of us that took his wife fishing and of course she had a HUGE bow over there and he had a minnow. I never did catch the other fellows name with Dubob, but it was good to meet him out on the hard deck.
after about another 2 hours, we are about 4 hours into the day now that began at 10, Buddy hooks up and ices a 12 and a half inch bow. after several more "tastings" and no hook ups, we head out for SLC at 4pm, water temp was at 43 or 44, and the depth was still 46 feet. I dont know rock port very well so i have no names of the coves or anything, but from where we was at on the dam end of the lake, the boat ramp was just about straight across from us and maybe south 50 yards at most. did not make it over that way, we stayed in one spot all day, the guys to the north of us, had a tent with some sort of heating devise and they actually shoveled off the lake and were ice skating on the area they cleared.
all in all, sunny weather, occasional W but not bad, good company and two fish... cant complain for taking a saturday to go drill ice holes...
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