Saturday Feb. 4 Chris and I ended up at Jordanelle Reservoir. Our initial plan was to fish Deer Creek it got foiled due to rain, we thought then to go to Strawberry only to find out that there was a fishing derby happening with an estimated thousand participants that changed our minds. We pulled into Jordanelle to find the ramp clear and only a scout group in the marina. They were asleep when we pulled in so we pulled the gear to northeast section of the marina. We broke through slush pockets 8-10 inches deep in places that did not make for easy or fun trekking.
We set camp and started fishing by sunrise and immediately started getting hits. We couldn't get them to hookup. We kept trying until finally I thought we were in a bed of chubs, not sure however we stayed until we finally got one hooked and to the surface. Perch! We were in a perch bed, we each caught 2 or 3 perch all little dinks but at least they weren't chubs. We fished here for a while thinking something big would swim through, but that didn't happen so we moved into shallower water and set up camp two. Same thing quick hits but no hook sets. Chris broke the ice by landing a small rainbow trout. We each caught 2 or 3 small rainbow out of these holes. The flasher was going crazy with fish moving around but we couldn't find or catch anything over 14 inches.
I moved to a shallower area of water and got a hit quick and missed it and then nothing happened in this hole. We decided to call it a day. We caught all itty-bitties today, talked to a couple other fishers and the scout camp with the exception of one nice brown trout all the reports were the same as ours.
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