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rested. Checked the ice at Rockport today. 3 inches at the boat ramp. The whole lake is capped. Also did a drive by at echo. The whole lake is capped it is the first pic. I assume it's about the same thickness as rockport. I also drove by Jordanelle looks like about a third of the lake has ice. Should go in a couple of days with these temps. Deer Creek has some ice at the inlet. Did not check the thickness. I believe it will go in the next few days with these temps as well. I heard Strawberry went over and current creek went over. Haven't heard anything on starvation. The slush at Huntington refroze. But a good work out getting down on the ice. 6-8 inches of snow on the ice. Still fishing like a hatchery Lol. Daughter-in-law got a 19 incher the other day. she was a happy camper. I'll let you guess what she caught him on. I'm looking for someone to go hunt down the Perch with me. send me a P.M. if you're interested.
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Echo still had open water yesterday morning.
Crazy how fast it goes when the temperatures get down this low.
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Saw one tent at Echo very, very, very close to the shore. Strawberry was awesome today. Hit Mantua last week, no perch just a few smallish trout. Ready for a perch fry.
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Rockport capped the whole lake overnight last night (as you mentioned) I see a ton of stress fractures across the ice today already due to the really cold temps and low dew point. I took a pic yesterday night and this morning at 8AM. I doubt anything but the ramp is safe right now and even that might be sketchy. I didn't see any huts on the lake today.
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I drove by jordanelle yester day and there was zero ice unless I was not seeing things[:p]
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did ya look at north end [:p]
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we were headed to kamas and it looked wide open, but from that road its kind of hard to tell it may have frozen over night , kamas was -5 degs
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Can't get away ice fishing until mid Jan. and that will be a trip North to Idaho.[cool]
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Thanks for the report Pikeman! Maybe we can meet in the ice again this year, I had a good time with you and magna man at solider creek last year!
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Barbs yeah give us a holler we will go again together. I'll just put it this way. Maybe some of the lakes will be ready by news year day. LOL
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i'm thinking of going and hunting some perch to.. but thinking of looking for some big pike and splake and musky too.. it's getting ready to go off this year if we dont get to much snow on the ice making it all slushy and yucky..lol
and did hear that there is 4 to 5 inchs on joe bush
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Looking farther south,,, I saw a guy drive his truck out on Minersville yesterday.
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[quote PIKEMAN99]
I'm looking for someone to go hunt down the Perch with me. send me a P.M. if you're interested.
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Would be fun to join you Glen if it weren't for that four letter word known as WORK. Hope to get rid of that excuse one of these days.
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you know I don't have money to count like you Kent lol
so go fishing
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[quote fuzzyfisher]i'm thinking of going and hunting some perch to.. but thinking of looking for some big pike and splake and musky too.. it's getting ready to go off this year if we dont get to much snow on the ice making it all slushy and yucky..lol
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let us know how ya do Fuzz
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Another great post, PIKEMAN. Detailed description & pics. You would have made a fine private detective in another life, monitoring the midnight exploits of wayward souls.
My buddy & I thinking of Mantua Tues morn, unless you can talk us into going instead to Rockport.
Hey.....one last thing.....How come no mention of you in that half-page feature in DesNews on Redmond Salt over the wkend? An employee who walks on water, and not even a word.
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hey old friend long time..... im up for a Yuba hunt like we did... wana try for some eyes threw the deck as well. good luck down south... pm me and let get something planned.. I need a few more of your tube jigs also...[cool]
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Just to let you know how I rank at Redmond. I am the peons peon. You get the picture. But I would like to read what they said about our nice company. It's about time we had a good winter. We are finally moving some Red salt. Yeah I'm still going to try to fish Rockport. Rumor has it that it has a few fish in it , and I don't mean TROUT.
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