Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

The Corps of Engineers has been running generators around the clock for the past month and today was no different. There was one running and the lake level was around 704 feet. We fished a couple of hours from fall creek to Lilleys’ Landing and caught a few rainbows and one little brown. Most of the fish came on an F6 silver Flatfish using 4lb mono. The rest of the fish were on orange, chartreuse, and white Powerbait. Most of the fish were only about twelve inches with a couple around fifteen inches. We also managed to see a Bald Eagle just across the lake from the Acacia Club boat ramp!!

We also fished above Fall Creek in the trophy area of the lake. We started all the way at the top by the Shepherd of The Hills Hatchery and worked our way back down to Fall Creek. We started out with Miracle Flies on 5x fluorocarbon tippet about four feet under a Palsa. We fished the south bank across from the hatchery and did very well dead drifting. Most of the fish came from just above the island on that side of the lake. We also used sculpin/peach 1/8 ounce and 3/32 ounce jigs and did very well with those. We did catch a few small crappie on jigs along with the trout.

Darin, Lilleys Landing

[Brian K. Shaffer]

Darin - great report. Dead on.

BTW, it is neat to see those bald eagles...

i saw one pick up an drop a fish midair...but to see 7 at one time all in one tree was the holy grail !