Fishing Reports 2/25

[Phil Lilley]

I just posted a report on OA main page.

Here's a couple of fishing buddy reports:

#1

My dad and I were down Saturday through Tuesday. The fishing was tough with all of the water running but with persistence we were able to catch about 20 or so between us each day. Our best fish was a 15in Rainbow caught on orange power bait. We threw every color of power bait we had along with minnows and the orange along with minnows seen to do the best. The best fishing seemed to be from about a half mile upstream from lilley’s to Cooper creek. Saturday afternoon we anchored behind the 1st dock upstream on the opposite bank. We found some slack water and fished minnows under floats and did real well.

#2

We took you up on the $29 per night offer and got back home yesterday. It was really nice to get away from here for a couple of days for fishing. We fished from the dock on Sunday afternoon. It was tough with the water running. I caught two in the first two casts on pink power eggs and then didn't have any more hits for the next two hours. JD didn't catch anything on Sunday, so I out-fished him....again! He made up for it on Monday, tho. We rented a jon boat and went up river to float fish our favorite stretch from above Trout Hollow back down to the corner. We were using a little bit of everything, power eggs, night crawlers, power bait, to figure out the hot bait. We did okay for the first several floats, with one or the other of us catching one per float. JD dug around in the bag and came up with white power worms, which he tried. That seemed to be the ticket, as we caught several per float after that.

It was sunny with very little wind for most of the afternoon, which made it nice. The clouds came in about 3 pm and it cooled off. After the clouds rolled over the lake, we noticed a marked increase in the size of the trout we were catching. When the sun was on the water, the trout were really skinny and small (stockers), but after the sun went under, we began to catch longer and heavier rainbows in the 13-14" range.

We caught our limits and released around 12 fish total for Monday afternoon, so we had fish to eat for supper Monday night. It wasn't one of our stellar fishing trips for catching, but we had a really fun time. The trip cured our winter "cabin fever" blues for the time being.

As usual, the staff at Lilleys was outstanding in helping us. Curtis set up the boat with the fish baskets to help us in drifting without a trolling motor.

[Thom]

Great report guys. Those are among my favorite float spots also though I usually use either jig and float or fish midges, eggs flys or hares ears there. Same results: clouds or wind on the water to produce riffles improves fishing and size. Bumping the bottom with jigs sometimes helps when the bright sun is out.

I agree about the great services that Curtis on the dock and resort staff in the office provide. They always go the extra mile to make a great trip better.

[flyfshn]

Agree with you Thom....No place/staff better than Lilley's!! Thanks for the reports!