Saturday, March 06, 2010

Old faithful

My dad called me and asked me to go on one last ice fishing trip. Typically March is considered the end of the season for ice fishing, so we thought we'd make one last attempt.

Sydney was the only that would come with me.  Sydney and I spent the night at dad's house and left early (6:30am) Saturday morning.  We hadn't fished up at Strawberry Reservoir this year and thought we'd try out luck there.

We got there around 8am and it was bitterly cold. But we quickly got the holes drilled and the tent setup (and as you can see the heater on for Sydney.)


Sydney and I fished in the tent.  The fish weren't biting, but we were able to catch one fish.  I hooked it, then handed the pole to Sydney.  She was reeling it in and finally asked me for help as it was difficult to reel in. After taking the pole back, a few cranks of the reel and a nice size fish appeared at the bottom of the ice hole. (Ice was about 22 inches thick).


The only bad thing about fishing at Strawberry Reservoir is everything 15 inches to 22 inches has to be thrown back, which is just about everything you catch.