Bissett Creek Road

[ratherBfishin]

Anyone been up Bissett Creek Road & know if it's open? Hoping to check out Little Lake.

Thanks.

[greatwhite]

Bissett Creek road might be open for a ways probably right to the park it's a main road, but if it is you will still have to snowshoe in from there, about 3 - 4 km's to Little lake from the Bissett creek road and Almost 4 feet snow in the woods.

Anyone been up Bissett Creek Road & know if it's open? Hoping to check out Little Lake.

Thanks.

[ratherBfishin]

Thanks GreatWhite,

Maybe I will try it eventually. Snowshoes aren't bad but it would have to be an overnighter with it being that far away. So I chickened out on the long drive but instead found a pair of suitable splake-stocked lakes near Dorset.

A few weeks ago, one 17-incher took a 1/4 oz chartreuse gumball jig with a minnow fully body-hooked. He'd sprung my rod tip-up but by the time I got over there, nary a fish. Bait was still on though (I was going dead-bait style with frozen minnows) and looked OK, so I began to lower him back down the hole. Hole'd frozen over a bit though, so I had to lower the jig and yank up on the rod with an open bail to let out a little line, then he'd sink a bit more, get stuck again, yank, sink, get stuck, etc. On about the third or fourth yank the fish hit, just at the drop. I was surprised, but I quickly tripped the bail and landed him.

I used the same jigging sequence (on purpose this time) on a nearby lake and landed three splake, including two 20-inchers, off a rocky point jutting into the main lake in about 12-18 feet of water. Two on Swedish pimples tipped with minnows jigged aggressively, and one on a set-line rod with a live shiner back-hooked on a 1/8 oz orange Forage Minnow jig lying on bottom. The jig is fairly aggressive, but works: rise 1 to 2 feet up, free fall, wait 5 secs, repeat; vary as needed. No real finesse needed -- they hit you or they leave. One rushed in from the side to attack and I never saw him on the sonar.

Stomach contents of cleaned fish included brown beetle-lookin' things (the size of the end of your pinky finger), and one beautifully preserved 1"-long baby mottled sculpin (!).

Sorry for the novel. Just really appreciated your reply, where I wasn't really expecting I'd get one (and a good one too). Thanks.