Thursday March 8, 2018 I hooked up the Fish Steeler and went to Deer Creek with my friends Jim and Brandon. We were quite early for launch so we headed to Heber got breakfast and came back to the State park launch. Sunrise we were on the water and it was cold, 27 degrees, the water temp was 33 degrees. We found chunks of ice throughout the lake as we trolled, some of it was thick and pulled our baits to the surface. Today we trolled hard baits for the day; Purple descents, Fire sunrise, and purple tigers were our go to's but we tried everything in the box from pink flat fish to brown trout rap's.
The day warmed up as the sun kept climbing but really never got warm, the ice chunks did melt however. We trolled up through Snow's Marina bay and got hits right at the buoy's as we left the launch area and seen nothing as we crisscrossed the channel after a while we turned and headed back to the main channel. We made our way to the island and trolled the normal, or tried to troll the normal path's but the ice was to thick and too much so we headed out into the deeper column and across the lake to the cliffs. As we cut across our first fish was landed a nice brown trout for Brandon. We had multiple other hits as we cut back and forth in the channel. AS we traveled back forth my phone founds it way to the bottom of the lake, so if you are in the vicinity of the island and you hear this funny noise it's my phone at 60 feet.
We made one last ditch effort to put more fish in the boat and took off in a direction not used much and there I landed a rainbow trout. We fished for another hour or so changing colors, speed, depth everything but only got a few more short strikes. We called it a day, the day was what we each needed, a break from the overload of our new job.
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