Ice Fishing!

[Ridgeratt]

Here's a great YouTube from a local person who lives in Omak I think.

[steelhead4life]

Thanks for the help guys.  I was in Moses today and some of the small shallow lakes still have some ice on them.  Not enough to walk on but maybe the next cold cycle will make it safe.  The lakes in Ellensbug are close also. 
Thought I would give a quick update, since I was in the area.

[Huntin Hounds]

  It's been a slow start to the ice fishing season but with this cold weather we are getting all the lakes should be good to go soon if not already. I took my 5 year old son out after Christmas to Coffin lake. It was one of the only fishable lakes at the time and a buddy had been doing well at it. We did not get a bite.
  I went to Lake Cascade in Idaho 1/18-1/20. The fishing was very slow the first two days there. First day we only caught a dozen small fish out of poison creek between 6 guys. We had two snowmobiles but one broke down so that left us with one the rest of the trip. There were large pockets of slush that made the getting around more difficult. The second day we fished around sugarloaf island and there were not a lot of fish caught. There were a few decent trout and 5-6 jumbo perch caught. I got one perch which was 13" long and 1.5 lbs. That part was awesome and I will be going back to try again. It rained all day and by the time we left there were slush pockets over a foot deep. Several 4 wheelers and sleds were left on the ice that day. We did not fish our last day as it had rained all night and we didn't think we could get to where we wanted to fish. The longest perch from our group was 14" and mine was the heaviest. I did see one from another angler that was 15" and 2.0 lbs!
  I fished Hauser on Saturday with my wife and boys. The ice is 6" and there were bluegill and crappie being caught. We were fishing less than 10 feet of water and the bite was very lite. I will be getting out on some more lakes in the next few weeks. See you out there.

[Ridgeratt]

Drove to Diamond Saturday half a dozen cars in the parking lot. Gate to the launch is closed and has not been plowed. We fished until after dark and it was slow. I never saw any fish under my depth finder. Walking around there wasn't any large evidence marks on the ice of a perch slaughter. 
There were about a dozen perch somebody had caught and just left on the ice.    Ice was a good solid 8+ there is maybe 2 inches of cheese ice over a hard layer.  But on the plus side we are making ice now folks. 

[WapitiTalk1]

Man o man, yum. 

[7mmfan]

Fantastic, looks great! I used to fish Curlew a lot when I was younger, and never saw perch there. When did they arrive on the scene? It's probably been 18 years of so since I was there last.

[blacktail378]

That bucket of perch brings back lots of memories of ice fishing with Gramps on Devils Lake ND.

[WapitiTalk1]

Yep, that's one of the things I miss by not living in a colder part of the world.... ice fishing!  I grew up and spent a good portion of my young adult years in NW Montana.  Ice fishing was a huge part of our winter sporting activities there!