Fishing Buddy Fishing Report

[Dave Cook]

Fishing Buddy report Feb 17 & 18. Darrell and I arrived at Lilley's Landing around 1:30, checked-in and spent some time in the fly shop. Fished Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday. Weather was fair and 68 on Wed and 73 on Thurs. Drove up to the dam to do some wade fishing. Two generators running and lake level was about 705. We rigged our fly rods with 5x tippets and 1/80 marabou jigs. Started with John Deere green along the gravel flats downstream of outlet 3. First fish I snapped off. Next fish the same, so I replaced my tippet and tied on a brown and yellow 1/80 jig. I caught 14 on it before I broke it off on a 15" rainbow. Replaced it and went back to fishing.

Darrell fished with mega worms, john deere and a black and yellow 1/80 jigs and caught two on each fly.

Around 4pm the water dropped below 704 and we had excellent fishing fishing conditions so we stayed on the water until dark. We checked the conditions of the outlet 1 area to see what the latest flood had done. The flooding had washed out more trees, more of the bank above the outlet but the stream bed seem to be about the same. We caught a couple more and then called it quits. For the day we probably caught 40 between the two of us although many of them were small. The best fish was 15".

Thursday morning we returned to the gravel flats below out 3 and only caught 2 using the same methods as the day before by lunch time. One of the fish caught had the jig I broke off the day before. After lunch we tried the south bank below the dam and parked above the rebar hole. We fished black and yellow and brown and yellow 1/80 jigs and combined for about 25 fish. The fish size averaged better than the day before with fewer of the small ones. A couple of 15"-ers and a 17" rainbow topped off the day. Again we fished till dark. It was still around 68 deg. by then. An incredibly nice day for fishing.

Thanks to Phil Lilley for providing an early spring break. With all the remodeling that has gone on this year the resort looks great. I hope to be back in a couple of weeks.

David & Darrell

[DaddyO]

Nice report.  Thanks for the info!

[JestersHK]

Thanks for the report, glad you guys were able to get out and wade a bit. Is Outlet 1 still filled in with sand?  Last month we were there and it was a sand pit and didn't see a single fish where they usually stack up in there.

[Dave Cook]

Yes, outlet 1 is a bit of a sandpit.

We check-out Friday morning and returned to the access on the south side of the dam.  We fished a couple of hours and caught about 20.  We fished black and yellow jigs.  You can see one in the fish's mouth.