06-06-2016, 06:09 PM
Forgot to mention that we also caught a 10” Kokanee that was planted in 2015. Won’t be long before big Koks will be on the radar for Fish Lake (see [url "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YfL3Avr7S0"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YfL3Avr7S0[/url] )
The brookie was small – maybe 10”, but it took a fly close to shore. I think they mostly hang out around and in the small feeder streams.
You could do a float tube around the Twin Creek area and most of the launch areas along the road that follows the northeast shore line. Must float tubers hang around Twin Creeks. The problem is that the lake gets deep very fast (it can go from 10’ to 75’ in just a few seconds of trolling) so you may not be able to anchor and if the wind is blowing the wrong direction, it could put you out to the sea (so to speak). There are no roads on the southwest shore and it is very remote and rugged. If you stayed close to shore, you could certainly fish all the depths, but you couldn’t cover much ground, which is the second problem.
It’s a big lake and the fish move around a lot. Once you find them, it’s game on but I would mark hot spots on the fish finder and we’d go back the next day and not see a one. A boat with a gas motor lets you search the lake and find the fish. Boat rental is reasonable about $50 half day and $75 for full day.
It’s a fun lake for a fish finder. Because it’s so deep (100’ in most areas), the sonar cone covers a wide area and you will see some monster sonar signatures, especially on the deep bottoms. You know it’s a giant Mac or Tiger Muskie – if you could just get a sinking line that would go that deep.
We also saw two beavers swimming across the lake (we didn’t notice them ‘till they smacked their tails at us) and we regularly saw ospreys snatching small trout from the surface. We even caught some trout that had talon scars on their back – they were the lucky ones.
A fun place with lots wild things going on.
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The brookie was small – maybe 10”, but it took a fly close to shore. I think they mostly hang out around and in the small feeder streams.
You could do a float tube around the Twin Creek area and most of the launch areas along the road that follows the northeast shore line. Must float tubers hang around Twin Creeks. The problem is that the lake gets deep very fast (it can go from 10’ to 75’ in just a few seconds of trolling) so you may not be able to anchor and if the wind is blowing the wrong direction, it could put you out to the sea (so to speak). There are no roads on the southwest shore and it is very remote and rugged. If you stayed close to shore, you could certainly fish all the depths, but you couldn’t cover much ground, which is the second problem.
It’s a big lake and the fish move around a lot. Once you find them, it’s game on but I would mark hot spots on the fish finder and we’d go back the next day and not see a one. A boat with a gas motor lets you search the lake and find the fish. Boat rental is reasonable about $50 half day and $75 for full day.
It’s a fun lake for a fish finder. Because it’s so deep (100’ in most areas), the sonar cone covers a wide area and you will see some monster sonar signatures, especially on the deep bottoms. You know it’s a giant Mac or Tiger Muskie – if you could just get a sinking line that would go that deep.
We also saw two beavers swimming across the lake (we didn’t notice them ‘till they smacked their tails at us) and we regularly saw ospreys snatching small trout from the surface. We even caught some trout that had talon scars on their back – they were the lucky ones.
A fun place with lots wild things going on.
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