Saturday Parker and I headed East on Highway 40 and stopped at Rabbit Gulch. This is the West end of Starvation Reservoir in the Uinta Basin just outside Duchesne. We got there just before daybreak and started to ready ourselves for the haul. Reports were coming in that the fishing was good and if you found a school of Perch you would be catching fish fast and furious. We got on the ice as the sun started to light up the horizon and we headed out into the lane we troll in the summer. Finding our place we cut a hole and watched the flasher for a few minutes, no fish were coming through so we moved. Cutting holes a few yards apart trying to find the action we made it back into the bank by the boat ramp.
We cut a hole and bam, the screen on the flasher lit up. We set camp and put bait in the water. Being cold and a little windy we set the tent for the day used our new screw driver for the tent stakes, it works wonderfully. Parker had a Perch on in a few minutes on a pink spider tipped with wax worm. He continued to slay them catching well over 50 of them in a little over 2 hours. I finally got on the board with a couple decent Perch. We didn’t keep any due to the fact most of them were quite small. After tiring of the small ones we pulled up stakes and moved to deeper water in hopes of finding trout. We got out into our lane and set camp and fished for another hour or so and got nothing. We changed lures, bait, presentation often but couldn’t coax one to partake of our offerings. Getting hungry and knowing we had a trek to get home and Parker had to work that evening we broke camp, went into Duchesne for lunch at Cowan’s Cafe. Always a good place to eat, down home cooking and large portions with friendly service. A great morning on the ice, fun to get into a lot of fish. I will be down for the next couple weeks, Parker and Jim may get out and give us a couple reports.
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