Yes that is the correct temperature that we pulled into the parking lot at Scofield Reservoir at on New Year's Eve morning. Cold enough to freeze your nose hairs when you breathed in. We were after that elusive Tiger trout again today. We moved to a new location today where we have seen other fishers fishing and tried our luck. Today we brought the 4 wheeler to pull the sled onto the ice with. The sled with all the gear goes around 300 pounds and yesterday when we were pulling it up the ramp we truly wished we had the wheeler. With the wheeler though you must be extremely cautious to make sure the ice is thick enough to sustain the weight and load of you and your gear. The rule is six - eight inches is strong enough for a snowmobile or 4 wheeler and we were cutting through 10-12 inches of ice. New spot, deeper water but still very stained and murky water. Our camera being deeper was not picking up much unless the fish was right up to the lens. Our flasher however was working just fine and indicating fish for us. Chub was the fish of the day no Tiger trout or even cutthroat trout. We felt quite lucky that we had not been encountering the chub the previous days, other fisherman were catching numerous of the trash fish, and we hadn't caught one. Today was another story that is all we caught. We used paddle bugs of assorted colors, curly tails, rapalas, tipped them with meal worms, wax worms, power bait. Still we could not get away from the chubs. Oh well we caught fish, another day of lessons on the ice, next time a new location and different tactics to hunt the Tiger trout.
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