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For everyone wondering about the Smelt Bite ..... I am making my 1st. trip for them tonight. Going off Baseline rd. & I will post what I find, later tonight. Not really expecting too much. Been getting lots of PMs. & my FB page is blowing up w/ everyone wanting to know. Keep ya all posted , Phil
Anyone have any luck targeting those steelhead yet?
The most recent plants likely haven't reached keeper size yet so not much sense in targeting them for me.
So I live over on the east side and get way less snow hence more ice building on my lake than those on the west side. Ive fished Gull a few times hardwater for smelt and know it's not like it used to be, fine with that. Point is my lake had 10"-12" of ice and I've seen it rapidly reduce to 4"-6" with this latest warm spell. We only had about 6" of snow on top before the melt. I'm hearing reports of 3.5"-4" over gull. Question is next Wednesday Thursday I have a work seminar to attend at Firekeepers . A few co workers and I who do a lot of ice fishing were planning on skipping the banquet dinner and heading over to Gull for some afternoon, evening fishing. Tomorrow seems to be the determining factor if she hasn't already opened up, but thinking by Wednesday night should be safe enough to get out on again. (Granted no major snows hit). Does anyone have any current updates or drive-by? I suppose I need to check the lake camera too. Thanks for any information.
The heavy rain runoff and warm weather melted a lot of the shore ice. I was walking through three inches of water on top of the ice last Sunday. I fish on a small lake near Gull but I haven't ventured out to check the ice around the edges. I may poke around the edges tonight if I get home early enough. Surprisingly I haven't seen more than about 4-5 inches of ice all year and it locks up quicker than Gull. Reports on Gull ice have been thicker than that.
Can someone explain to me how to private message a current member...Tim