Weather: Fog, calm, T-20s
Moon Phase: Full Moon
Location: Pineview Reservoir
Best Bait: Firetiger spoon tipped with worm
Who Went: Bobber John, Devin, Dunc
Devin couldn’t make the last ice fishing outing, so we
planned another trip to a different lake.
Dayton decided to opt out on this trip.
I think the slow fishing and cold weather on the last outing didn’t excite
him much.
We arrived to Pineview in a thick fog. We couldn’t even see the reservoir. We stopped near the dam and started to
unload when a big group of fishermen arrived back to their vehicles. The report was that they had just spent a day
and a half fishing and sleeping in their tents with one fish caught by the whole
group. Yikes!
We hopped back in the truck and headed further down
lake. The goal was to make it to
Browning’s Point, but I made a wrong turn in the thick fog, which put us in a
big shallow bay about 1 mile from Browning’s Point. We didn’t realize it until we got onto the
ice and I turned on my fish finders GPS to get a bearing. Devin was in good spirits so we decided to
make the trek to Browning’s. Hindsight
is 20/20. After a grueling 1-mile hike
over the snow-capped lake we made it to our spot exhausted and sweating.
We set up and began to fish.
There were a few small perch that wanted to play, but the action wasn’t
hot. Bobber John caught a tiny bullhead
catfish and it became Devin’s best friend.
He spent most of the day making ponds in the snow and transferring his
new pet back and forth to each pond. We
gave the fishing a good effort, but all we could entice were a few small perch. No other species wanted to play.
The hike back wasn’t fun. Devin was tired and cold, so I made him a makeshift chair on the sled and
the trek began. Let’s just say it was
one of those hikes where you feel like you have never been so excited to see
the truck! Old age is not fun. I was exhausted!
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