Last year I didn't get out ice fishing. Mainly because we had a warm winter and I'm not sure the ice was ever safe enough to be out on.
Syd had been wanting to go ice fishing, so what did she do? She did what any other teenager would do - she texted her Grandpa and asked "Are we going ice fishing tomorrow?" It turns out we couldn't go "tomorrow", as we had plans but we planned it for a few days later. Who can say NO to a face like this?
We went and fished on the East side of Scofield. There was between 8 and 10 inches of ice and the water was probably about 10 feet deep. It was very cold (high of 12F) but we were quite warm while we fished. We set up the ice tent, but didn't use it to fish with. Sydney and her cousin, Kennedy did go into the ten to warm up a few times, but other than that we fished out on the ice.
Grandpa Berger and Sydney fishing.
We didn't catch many fish today. Matter of fact, I caught two small trout, while my dad caught a Chub. Usually, I like to get a fish on the line and then have Sydney reel it in, however both times I caught the fish Sydney was too far away or they bit my line a few feet from the top and the fish was through the hole before I could hand it over to her.
We weren't successful at all until dad went to talk to the people next to us and they gave us a Chub fish to use for bait. In years past, the Utah Chub was introduced illegally to Scofield Lake and the DWR have since added more predatory fish that like to eat Chub. Once we added Chub to our hooks, we started getting more hits.
It wasn't a great day of fishing, but it was fun to be out on the ice again.
