Author Topic: Ice fishing Arizona (Read 7312 times)

JigAwhopper · « **on:** Jan 18, 2016, 12:16 PM »

Hey,
just got back from a trip I planned for last 5 years. Went to White Mountains on Apache Res to scratch the itch. No real good quantities but quality was there.....I think one is a German Brown, but could be wrong.

Raquettedacker · « **Reply #1 on:** Jan 18, 2016, 12:53 PM »

Great pictures...

mtnhillbilly · « **Reply #2 on:** Jan 18, 2016, 01:24 PM »

Nice fish good job

ITO · « **Reply #3 on:** Jan 18, 2016, 06:24 PM »

Great pics and congrats! You have a chrome rainbow and 2 of what appears to be male rainbows in mating suits.

missoulafish · « **Reply #4 on:** Jan 18, 2016, 06:49 PM »

This is cool!!!

corny13 · « **Reply #5 on:** Jan 18, 2016, 07:53 PM »

Cool, maybe Ill take Mama to Arizona some winter..

JigAwhopper · « **Reply #6 on:** Jan 19, 2016, 06:12 AM »

Thanks guys,
you need to move up in elevations (9000ft +) to get into some safe ice, but it's there. Not a lot of fishing pressure

steeliebob · « **Reply #7 on:** Jan 19, 2016, 09:09 AM »

I had to check it out. Nice bows that you caught. I actually fish for rainbows in Michigan through the ice along the great lakes shorelines. I have caught them up to 14 pounds. The elevation is about 600 feet so I don't have to climb mountains to catch them. Sometimes getting over the icebergs is challenging enough.

thndrvlly · « **Reply #8 on:** Jan 19, 2016, 09:14 AM »

beautiful pics

anglure · « **Reply #9 on:** Jan 19, 2016, 09:34 AM »

Great post and pics ! Thanks for sharin !

staggerin · « **Reply #10 on:** Jan 19, 2016, 09:36 AM »

That's a beautiful fish

SLAYERFISH · « **Reply #11 on:** Jan 19, 2016, 10:16 AM »

Nice bows, but no Browns there-

Super-ice-bird · « **Reply #12 on:** Jan 19, 2016, 10:50 AM »

Nice fish, you don't hear bout hard water in Arizona very often.

chevy rotbox · « **Reply #13 on:** Jan 19, 2016, 10:51 AM »

very nice

great pics

ATrexOnTheIce · « **Reply #14 on:** Jan 19, 2016, 01:42 PM »

Wow! Arizona! Beautiful pics and nice fish! Your a contender for sure!

stag · « **Reply #15 on:** Jan 20, 2016, 01:26 AM »

Great fish...all 'bow though...no browns

trundog · « **Reply #16 on:** Jan 20, 2016, 07:36 AM »

Not the state I think of when I think ice fishing!! Nice pictures

BomoBrown · « **Reply #17 on:** Jan 20, 2016, 03:09 PM »

Arizona is having a better winter then Vermont.

Well at least some of Arizona.

reddog11 · « **Reply #18 on:** Jan 20, 2016, 08:08 PM »

Beauty

SpitzoMT · « **Reply #19 on:** Jan 21, 2016, 01:26 AM »

Beauties for sure.....Congrats !!

JigAwhopper · « **Reply #20 on:** Jan 21, 2016, 07:49 AM »

It was 12 in of hard blue ice, with 4 deg F lows at night at 9200 ft elevation. But good luck getting ice reports there. It's mostly few locals hitting hard water there, everybody else just goes skiing.

Spoondangler · « **Reply #21 on:** Jan 21, 2016, 09:34 AM »

Nice Rainbows! Native to that are as well i believe. Once drove from flagstaff to sedona in the winter, stopping to cast in the river as we went and i could not believe the trout fishing. Between my friend and i we must have caught 15 trout up to 3+ lbs (my biggest ever at that point). If you had a trout stream like that in CT man would it be pressured. Id really love to travel there to ice fish sometime.

outdoors_4life · « **Reply #22 on:** Jan 24, 2016, 06:51 PM »

not a bad day at all

Tipped_down · « **Reply #23 on:** Jan 26, 2016, 04:48 PM »

Nice fish. Love catching big bows through the ice

lipripr · « **Reply #24 on:** Jan 26, 2016, 04:50 PM »

Nice! Arizona, who would have thought.

wnyfly · « **Reply #25 on:** Jan 31, 2016, 01:30 PM »

Quote from: Spoondangler on Jan 21, 2016, 09:34 AM

Nice Rainbows! Native to that are as well i believe. Once drove from flagstaff to sedona in the winter, stopping to cast in the river as we went and i could not believe the trout fishing. Between my friend and i we must have caught 15 trout up to 3+ lbs (my biggest ever at that point). If you had a trout stream like that in CT man would it be pressured. Id really love to travel there to ice fish sometime.

They could be wild, but definitely not native. Gila and apache are the only trout species native to Arizona. Rainbows are native to the PNW.

Regardless, they are great looking fish! Would love to throw those on the smoker.

JigAwhopper · « **Reply #26 on:** Feb 02, 2016, 07:28 AM »

It's stocked through a hatchery. All of them hold overs feeding mostly on fresh water shrimp. Their guts were busting out with them. Put a dozen into a smoker few years back, delicious!

KevNH · « **Reply #27 on:** Feb 05, 2016, 08:12 AM »

Just4TheBuckOfIt · « **Reply #28 on:** Feb 11, 2016, 07:22 AM »

wow those are nice fish look at that gurth

Spoondangler · « **Reply #29 on:** Mar 04, 2016, 04:43 PM »

Quote from: wnyfly on Jan 31, 2016, 01:30 PM

They could be wild, but definitely not native. Gila and apache are the only trout species native to Arizona. Rainbows are native to the PNW.

Regardless, they are great looking fish! Would love to throw those on the smoker.

you're right, thanks. Those apache look cool.

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