BLUE MESA RES. & LAKE SAN CRISTOBAL ICE FISHING INFO.

[elkdeerbear]

Dad and I are heading down to ice these 2 in mid-February. Has any iced these?  We've fished them both in the summer, but never in the winter. Should we fish were we did good in the early summer? Any help or info. would be appericated. Jeff

[_colorado]

I did pretty well in a few areas on BM last year.  If you cross the first bridge then exit for the Iola boat ramp you can drive right down to the ice.  You'll see a rocky point about 200 yards to the west (left) - head for that.  There should be a nice dropoff there that goes from 50-80 FOW.  2"- - 3" white glow tube jigs tipped with "Fresh" sucker meat worked great.  Suckers gotta be fresh, not frozen, thawed, refrozen.  Frozen and thawed once is what I mean by fresh.  You may want to try tipping with small cocktail shrimp too - I did OK with that last year when the sucker meat ran out.

Never have fished LSC - it's always on my list but so hard to get to!

[brown-time]

I'm going Sunday, let ya know how we do.

[brown-time]

The ice on Blue is to the end of the narrows just west of Elk Creek, then about half frozen for the next 10 miles west, and just about frozen near the dam.  I fished near the Lake City bridge today, there were about 5 other parties there.  The fish were finicky today but I managed about 12 browns and bows from 14" to 20", about half each.  No lakers but I didn't try very long for them.  Lots of stockers too, can't keep them off at times.  Water was a little murky so black jigs were the color of the day with the stockers mainly hitting chartreuse.
They wouldn't hit metal and wanted it jigged just a little, or still.  Use small jigs like Genz worms and ratso's for the trout.

[elkdeerbear]

Thanks for the information guys. Were heading down Feb. 10-12. Should be froze pretty good by then. Gonna try Lake City bridge area, Bay of Chickens, and Elk Creek marina area.