Friday I met up with Gary Daniels to fish Deer Creek. We met at 6:30 and was on the water as the sun rose over the horizon. We were trolling on the 17th of Feb. the earliest I have been on the water in a boat. We thought it would be good fishing, not realizing how epic of a day we were in for. The ice season for Deer Creek lasted a total of 3 weeks.
We launched and I dang near fell in the lake getting on the boat, well I partially did but only got my shoes wet. The state hadn't had time to put the docks in yet. We took off and looked for ice sheets finding a couple, one we bumped up against and it was still two to three inches thick so we decided we would stay away from them. The lake was wide open from outside the buoys toward Heber. We started trolling and went through Rainbow bay without anything and made it to the cliffs where Gary hooked up the first of the day at 14 feet. Not much later I got a hit on the JoD and landed a rainbow. We reset the poles and Gary hooked up two on his side, both nice Rainbows.
The day was starting to warm up as we trolled roadside down through the Island bay. We both got another fish then Gary's second pole got a hit and then my second got a hit so a quad set for the first time. We had a few times where all four poles were active and we had our hands filled with poles and setting hooks. Today we were using downriggers and dodgers with a worm trailing. Luckily we each bought a dozen worms!
The day continued to get better and more fish were landed. Gary had the biggest catches of the day with three fish over 3.5 pounds and another three over 3 pounds. The morning warmed up and became a beautiful day. We fished until we ran out of bait. We caught well over 50 fish in 4 hours. With multiple double and triple catches. Epic day on the lake!!
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