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Lucky Peak/Arrowrock trout where are the big ones? - Excaliber551 - 02-08-2016
We've been fishing LP and AR since we moved here in 2006. They plant a ton of smaller sub catchable and catchable rainbows every year.
The biggest rainbow we've caught has been around 2-3/4 lbs. Most of them seem to be much smaller. AR seems to have the larger trout on a pretty consistent basis over the years.
Has anyone caught any real nice trout out of these two lakes? With all the numbers they've planted someone surely would have caught some 10 pounders.
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Re: [Excaliber551] Lucky Peak/Arrowrock trout where are the big ones? - dtayboyz - 02-08-2016
Not enough food to grow big fish.
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Re: [dtayboyz] Lucky Peak/Arrowrock trout where are the big ones? - hizah - 02-14-2016
Biggest fish I've seen is a 7lb squaw. I never caught a trout over 4lbs from their.
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Re: [Excaliber551] Lucky Peak/Arrowrock trout where are the big ones? - AverysAdventure - 02-15-2016
35 years ago there were guys that could pull 10 pounders out of AR consistently. I can't wait for them to start planting Chinook in LP again. Fish on!
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Re: [AverysAdventure] Lucky Peak/Arrowrock trout where are the big ones? - Kodiak1 - 02-17-2016
AverysAdv.. is correct. There were monster trout in Arrowrock when I was much younger!! (the 60's) They would fish with bobbers and illegal live minnows. I had a relative who would fish the spillway with eggs when they were dumping water. The trout would hang on the edge of the dam where the spillway starts, waiting for food to come drifting by. Don't believe you are even allowed on the dam these days, and when was the last time you saw water going over the spillway anyway!! You do have to wonder why the big ones were in there at the time and not now? Mike
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Re: [Kodiak1] Lucky Peak/Arrowrock trout where are the big ones? - Westslopecutt - 03-03-2016
It has to have been close to 20 years ago now but I vaguely remember a story about a near state record Rainbow being caught from a boat at Arrowrock. If I'm remembering it correctly, the angler that caught the fish either worked at or owned Turner's Sports fair at the time. I also remember some controversy due to what Kodiak has mentioned, there was some speculation that the fish may have been caught using a live minnow for bait. I'm pretty sure that story came out of the Idaho Statesman but I could be mistaken. I tried to find some evidence by searching the web but it must have happened too long ago for there to be any record of it. I also remember that the story of landing the fish was pretty humorous because the guy only had one of those small hand nets and the fish wouldn't fit in it. He flagged over another boat to borrow a bigger net but all they had was the same size net. He ended up using both landing nets, one over the tail and one over the head to scoop it out of the water and into his boat.
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Re: [Westslopecutt] Lucky Peak/Arrowrock trout where are the big ones? - crappyslayer - 03-06-2016
You were close, Kodiak. It was actually an employee from Jolly"s State street beverage. I actually talked to him about it. I used to live in that end of town and we talked fishing all of the time.
He told me that he was mooching with a live minnow in arrowrock. He even gave me the exact location. I can't remember the exact weight, but remember he was expecting it to make the record books. He showed me photos. It was pretty dang big...
My grandpa and I used to fish off the dam at arrowrock. My grandpa knew the guy who was the attendant at the dam. We would get there in the morning and the gate would be unlocked for us. It was nothing to catch a few trout in the 5lb range. About 4 or 5 yrs ago I tried many times to catch trout in that area and only caught a few 12" trout, and hundreds of squaw fish
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Re: [crappyslayer] Lucky Peak/Arrowrock trout where are the big ones? - Kodiak1 - 03-06-2016
Actually that was Todd that mentioned Turners, but I know exactly who you are talking about....he worked for Fred Jolley for some time, a wiry chain-smoking guy who always had a good tip. When I was a high-school student in the 60's, my dad and I were returning from a fishing trip on the Middle Fork of the Boise. We drove down to the banks of Arrowrock which was quite low at the time. The usually submerged canyon walls were showing and there was a fellow fishing with a bobber at the base of some of those cliffs. We walked up to him and when my dad asked how he was doing, he dragged his boots over a little puddle he had made, and you could still see some of the minnows flopping around in the now mud. He had an amazing stringer of trout. All in the 4-5# range. Probably 8-10 of them. Limit in those days was 15. Why then and not now? I sure don't have an answer to that! Mike
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Re: [Kodiak1] Lucky Peak/Arrowrock trout where are the big ones? - crappyslayer - 03-07-2016
The middle fork and arrowrock were my main stomping grounds with my grandpa back in the mid 60's.
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Re: [Kodiak1] Lucky Peak/Arrowrock trout where are the big ones? - AverysAdventure - 03-07-2016
I think the name of that guy that work for Fred and Polly Jolley was Mike something. He loaned me a steelhead tag once. lol
The old fellers that I knew back in the day that could catch the hogs out of AR claimed they were trolling large rapalas. Hard to say though.
Anyone remember the hole in the fence on the north side of AR dam? We'd crawl through it and rappel down the face of the dam on an old wire cable. Fishing was great down there but it was a workout getting back up with a load of fish.
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Re: [AverysAdventure] Lucky Peak/Arrowrock trout where are the big ones? - Westslopecutt - 03-07-2016
Thanks all for helping with some more accurate details. The more I think about it, that story I remember reading must have been written closer to 30 years ago, which makes me feel....old.
I do have a personal experience with hooking but not landing one of the biggest non Steelhead Rainbows I've ever personally encountered in the outflow of Lucky Peak in the Discovery Park area. That experience happened back in the mid 90's. I didn't have a landing net that day either and remember wishing that I would have because the fish had to have been 6+ pounds. I did hook and land several other fish that same late fall day that were around 20 inches but like most fishing stories, the biggest fish of the day got away [frown]. I fought that fish for what seemed like an eternity but it was probably only about 15 minutes and after I finally wore it down it was laying there on it's side next to the bank. I was looking at it and thinking this fish is a giant but as soon as I reached down and tried to get my fingers on it, the spinner I was using popped out of it's jaw and the fish swam away. What's kind of odd is I've never had another fishing experience like that in that same area of the Boise river right in the outflow of Lucky Peak. That fish is definitely one I'll always remember.
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Re: [Excaliber551] Lucky Peak/Arrowrock trout where are the big ones? - Squarehog - 03-08-2016
http://www.bigfishtackle.com/photos/data/500/RecordRainbow.jpg
This one was caught right below Lucky Peak back in 2007 Thanksgiving time. the angler cleaned the fish before taking home to grandpas for a picture andFish and Game claimed that it was potentially a state record rainbow trout but was already gutted. I always wondered where the big trout were too inside the reservoirs.. The pictured fish must have been Kokaneee fed, like that of the giant rainbows caught below Dworshack res..
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