Ice - with a twist/ Elevenmile offers variety of frozen, open fishing areas

From: The Gazette | Date: December 28, 2000| Author: Karl Licis; The Gazette | Copyright information

Trout through the ice? Try Elevenmile Reservoir.

Trout from open lake water? Try Elevenmile.

In a holiday season with something for everyone - or in the strangest ice-fishing season in recent memory, if you will - the lake offers plenty of both.

"It's an interesting situation," Larry Falk marveled the day after Christmas. "I've never seen anything like it. People are still fishing Witcher's Cove from the shore; there's no ice at all there.

"But the areas where we'...

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