Author Topic: North Idaho Ice (Read 540853 times)

perchhead1 · « **Reply #630 on:** Dec 13, 2011, 06:47 PM »

Crappieluvr, when Dawson has 6 inches Perkins has 6 inches, I have fished these two lakes early for years.

chipmunksniper · « **Reply #631 on:** Dec 13, 2011, 09:02 PM »

checked upper twin this afternoon and there was about 4 inches of good clear ice at the launch. bunch of holes drilled out there

CPperch · « **Reply #632 on:** Dec 14, 2011, 08:43 PM »

I recently moved from Twin Falls ID to Yakima WA. I'm now closer to North ID and wanted to fish Round lake this weekend with my daughter (her birthday and she want to ice fish with Daddy!). Can someone give directions ? I found a couple of Round Lakes when I Googled. Any suggestions as to the area to fish on the lake? Thanks in advance for the advice.

CP

idahonative · « **Reply #633 on:** Dec 14, 2011, 10:28 PM »

Coming from the I90/US95 intersection, go north for about 35 miles. You'll pass Cocolalla Lake on the left. About 2 miles past that you'll come to Dufort Rd. And you'll take a left there. There's signs posted. It's Round Lake state park.
http://maps.google.com/maps?um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=round+lake+state+park&fb=1&gl=us&hq=round+lake+state+park&hnear=round+lake+state+park&cid=0,0,11009131285360183185&ei=V3XpTv3rLsSQ2gX2sNWzCQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&ved=0CAoQ_BI

CPperch · « **Reply #634 on:** Dec 14, 2011, 10:52 PM »

Thanks much!!

idahonative · « **Reply #635 on:** Dec 14, 2011, 11:10 PM »

Good luck!

free_spirit · « **Reply #636 on:** Dec 15, 2011, 01:44 PM »

@ CPperch
I would fish the area just out in front of the docks. That is where most people ( including me ) have been catching fish. The perch I caught were in about 10-12 feet of water. If you do go farther, watch out for the area around the inlet, as last time I was there it was still open water.

idahonative · « **Reply #637 on:** Dec 15, 2011, 07:05 PM »

Went out on Avondale for 2 hours and pulled in two decent perch with lots of other bites! 4-5" of nice black ice!

plfish · « **Reply #638 on:** Dec 16, 2011, 07:34 PM »

Just got back from Chase Lake a few minutes ago. About 5 inches of solid ice and could drive right to the sportsman access on the west side of the lake. I had my 6 year old with me and while we had several very subtle bites we couldn't hook anything. We were only out from about 3:30 to 4:45. I did have my camera with me and we could see several perch, largemouth, and pumpkinseed underwater...they just weren't that hungry. The fish were about 12-18" off the bottom sitting right on the top of the weeds. We'll try again tomorrow morning. I'm glad we had the camera to see the fish as it kept my son's interest up as he was getting antsy to pull some in!

idahonative · « **Reply #639 on:** Dec 16, 2011, 11:16 PM »

Has anyone been up to Kelso at all?

DakotaElkSlayer · « **Reply #640 on:** Dec 16, 2011, 11:43 PM »

Hit Winchester Lake this afternoon... Lake has 5-6 inches of great, clear ice with 1/2" of snow ontop. Had a great time, but it was probably my worse outing ever on Winchester. Buddy and I fish for just over three hours and caught one bass, one perch, three bluegills and twenty-six rainbows. Damn rainbows were in the water column where the bluegills should've been. And a majority of those jerks bit just as light as a bluegill. So you get all excited that you finally found the gills, set the hook and a second later, you knew you had a %&*$ rainbow on!

Jim

sediver · « **Reply #641 on:** Dec 17, 2011, 12:53 AM »

Has anyone seen folks out on Cocolalla yet?

Idahogator · « **Reply #642 on:** Dec 17, 2011, 01:28 AM »

Quote from: sediver on Dec 17, 2011, 12:53 AM

Has anyone seen folks out on Cocolalla yet?

Have not even been to check the ice at the dock yet and it'll be a while before I do, after a fisherman on Round Lake yesterday,(Thursday), said he had just that morning ,about 9:30, augured and measured the ice at 2 1/2", while standing on the dock. Hopefully a bit cooler mid-week thru next weekend.

BlueDuck · « **Reply #643 on:** Dec 17, 2011, 09:38 AM »

I saw some guys out on Cocolalla yesterday (Fri) as I drove by. I stopped at the boat ramp Thurs. and there were two guys out about a hundred yards. I walked out to where they were and puckered a little when I saw what looked like no more then three inches of ice. Good clear ice tho. If no one falls through this weekend, I think its will be good to go.

h20eskimo · « **Reply #644 on:** Dec 17, 2011, 05:36 PM »

Just came home from fishing upper twin. I couldn't believe that there were only 2 groups of fisherman on the entire lake. 5" of good ice, sunny 40 degrees and 40 perch later we left. Awesome day to fish in December

sediver · « **Reply #645 on:** Dec 17, 2011, 07:47 PM »

h20eskimo....how big are the perch you caught out there?

sihlms391 · « **Reply #646 on:** Dec 17, 2011, 11:39 PM »

Sediver. I went to upper twin last week. The perch are small 3 to 7 inches. I caught a lot at round and they all were between 7 to 10 inches.

sediver · « **Reply #647 on:** Dec 18, 2011, 09:51 PM »

Thanks for the info sihlms391....

h20eskimo · « **Reply #648 on:** Dec 18, 2011, 10:27 PM »

Yes most of the perch were small but still fun to catch. I will be going to round lake on friday to try that out.

sihlms391 · « **Reply #649 on:** Dec 19, 2011, 08:58 AM »

You are right. It doesn't always matter about size but it is fun to catch them. Good luck at round lake.

sticksandstring · « **Reply #650 on:** Dec 19, 2011, 09:39 AM »

went to medicine lake yesterday. four flags from 10 am to 4 pm. lots of dinky perch. was the first time out this year so it was great.

free_spirit · « **Reply #651 on:** Dec 19, 2011, 03:55 PM »

Mirror lake is at 4" of ice now. Went out there this morning and tried jigging for blueback, but didn't even get a bite. Also heard from someone who lives near the lake that he hasn't seen anyone out yet.

idahonative · « **Reply #652 on:** Dec 19, 2011, 05:49 PM »

Great day for perch @ Fernan today! I went out 10-2 and caught almost 30 fish and 1 nice cutthroat. Only 4 keepers out of the bunch. Had a blast!

h20eskimo · « **Reply #653 on:** Dec 19, 2011, 09:42 PM »

Idahonative, how thick was the ice at Fernan and is the lake completely frozen?

shawdawg · « **Reply #654 on:** Dec 19, 2011, 09:51 PM »

Hey Sticksandstring, How much ice was on medicine, I grew up in St. Maries and will be heading over for the holidays. Thanks.

idahonative · « **Reply #655 on:** Dec 19, 2011, 09:52 PM »

The whole lake is frozen. I was out on almost 4". A week ago the outlet had almost 5", so I imagine it's gained an inch or two.

sticksandstring · « **Reply #656 on:** Dec 20, 2011, 09:45 AM »

sawdawg there was about 4.5 to 5 inches. fished in the cove by the hwy. middle of the lake still open. ducks and geese are in it. will be back there next weekend with at least my brother from boise.

atholmike · « **Reply #657 on:** Dec 20, 2011, 11:34 AM »

Kelso Lk. I have been out on Kelso twice. The ice is 6in thick. Both times we caught 3 trout on jigs & worms off of the bottom. The fishing was slow.

atholmike · « **Reply #658 on:** Dec 20, 2011, 07:36 PM »

Lower Twin. Does any one know what the ice is like there yet?

vl777 · « **Reply #659 on:** Dec 21, 2011, 01:39 PM »

Hi there! Great forum! New to North Idaho, to this forum, and to ice fishing.
Fished Cocolalla first time on Monday; ice was 3.5+" thick. Caught a nice mess of perch. 10-12 people were on the lake fishing that day.

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