Back

Back

     We went back for another limit of trout.  High pressure was moving in, so fishing is a little slower and the a little colder.  Once the  fishing slowed down, we had to fish a little deeper.

Trout

Trout

     There are a few lakes, safe enough to crawl out on.  This one has 6" of ice (4" of clear and 2" white).  We thought we might go for some catfish and trout.  Yum, smoked catfish.  We didn't catch any cats, but did catch our limit of trout (6/each).   We had our two mouse-jackers and eight spinning poles, going off at various times.  Looks, like we are going back, tomorrow.  Need to fill the smoker.

Better

Better

Fishing went a little faster, today.  It snowed, over night and snowed/rained/snowed, while fishing.  Sometimes, that's the best time to catch fish.  There's 4" of ice and we kept 35 nice blue gills and crappies.

Mouse Jackers

Mouse Jackers

     Tom made a couple of hair-trigger, mouse jackers.  We caught 14, assorted panfish.  It was hard fishing, today.  The fish, barely bit or not at all.  We had to do a lot of hole-hopping.

Fishable

Fishable

     There's finally, fishable ice.  2.5 - 3" of ice, up here in North Idaho.   We caught a few gills, a bass and crappie.   Going in the morning to catch supper.