It’s Saturday and time to take some kids ice fishing.  I seriously thought it would be a day like New Years Eve day, but not so.  Too many other things going on in the kids world.  So, as of last night it was Weasel and I with three kids.  This morning I awoke to a message saying one of the three kids has backed out, and that might cause one of the other two to back out as well.  We will see.

Whatever, and even if it means just Weasel and I are going fishing, so be it!

The game plan calls for Hyrum again, since Pineview didn’t pan out like we thought it would.  Hyrum is full of small rainbows and tons of small perch.  Any perch over 10 inches that decides they want to bite will be pan fish!

I have a pocket full of quarters and am ready to go!  Bring it on!  And for any of you out there willing to meet us up at the lake, I will drill holes for free!  That’s right, free, the only stipulation is the holes have to be within 30 yards of where we are set up!  Come on!

Bears Butt

January 18, 2014

PM REPORT!!!!

Wow!  What a great day to be out and about outside!  A wonderful day of fishing and after I tell you just the time line that we were out you should be able to understand just how great a day it was.

Can you imagine taking two young kids out fishing and staying from 9:30 until 4:30….ON THE ICE??????  No way!  Kids are good for one or two MAYBE three stretching it, but not SIX HOURS!

So, what keeps kids on the ice for that long?  Fish!  That is the bottom line…fish!

So, it was about 3 that the first talk started coming from the youngest, Cody…when are we going home?  Then about 3:30, Kenzie pipes in with, It’s boring, when are we going home?  The fish are not biting, let’s go?  When are we going?

My response was…in about two hours…you should have heard the whining then!  It even made Cole chuckle. By the way, Cole came up to get some free holes!  And he hadn’t even been on Bears Butt Dot Com!

Well, as for the fishing!  It was fast if you had the right lure in the water….everyone caught at least one fish…well….maybe not Cole….Everyone caught at least ONE quarter fish (we put a qualifier on size today)….well…maybe not Cole….Some of us caught two Quarter fish….Of course not Cole, but he was a good sport about it and gave up his quarters freely (Thanks Cole, you can join us anytime!)!!!!!

So, let’s see some of the fish we caught today!  Perch and trout…that is what we caught and lots and lots of bites!

Not too big Kenzie!

Not too big Cody!

Now there you go girl!  Nice trout!  I’ll pay a quarter for you catching that one!

OH YA!  That perch is worth a quarter Cody!  Good fish!

Oh my!  Grandpa, Bears Butt, how did that fish get the hook into its mouth?

And of course the day would not be complete without showing what Weasel’s $40 Jaw Jacker caught…his first fish on it!

Now that shows you just how “sensitive” you can set those things!

My home made “Butt Jacker” did not even trip, however I did catch a fish while it was set up and ready to strike, the fish just wasn’t big enough to make it go off…design error on my part.

We had a wonderful day on the ice and after the whining stopped about 3:33..the action picked up and suddenly it was 4:30 and time to go!

What a great day with over 75 fish iced and all of them turned back except those that will be used for catfish bait later in the year!

Thanks guys for the great time!

Bears Butt

PM report January 18, 2014