08-04-2019, 12:46 AM
I fished Fish Lake 1/2 days for the past few days. I wanted to get my family members into fish so I first tried fishing with bait. That worked great for perch and nothing else. Not my idea of fun fishing. I next switched to trolling the east shoreline. In prior years (haven't been up there with my boat for a few years) trolling the east shoreline has been non-stop action for rainbows. We would occasionally catch a rainbow or a splake, but really slow compared to what I have experienced previously.
We then switched to trolling all over the lake. Surprisingly, we did slightly better trolling out near the middle in water that is over 100' deep. I set my down rigger (finally installed one on my current boat) at anywhere from 20' to about 38' and put out two leaded lines our 4 or 5 colors and drug a fly on the surface. We caught a few fish (mostly rainbows, a few splake and two kokanee). I wish that I would have put the fly out sooner, because it caught a surprisingly number of fish.
Everyone I talked to commented on how slow the catching was.
It was a fun trip, but wish we could have caught a few more and it would have also been nice to catch a few more larger fish.
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We then switched to trolling all over the lake. Surprisingly, we did slightly better trolling out near the middle in water that is over 100' deep. I set my down rigger (finally installed one on my current boat) at anywhere from 20' to about 38' and put out two leaded lines our 4 or 5 colors and drug a fly on the surface. We caught a few fish (mostly rainbows, a few splake and two kokanee). I wish that I would have put the fly out sooner, because it caught a surprisingly number of fish.
Everyone I talked to commented on how slow the catching was.
It was a fun trip, but wish we could have caught a few more and it would have also been nice to catch a few more larger fish.
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