Good Fishing Last weekend

[itsdesignateddave]

Sorry I didn't post up sooner, but I just got registered for this site. I had a great time last weekend (7, 8, & 9th of June) fishing mostly off the dock. I averaged 10-15 fish per day, with almost 30 on Saturday. Nothing huge until the wee hours of the morning Saturday. I was down on the dock with my soon to be mother in law (of all people??) and she caught 3 and I only had one from an hour of two before. I moved places and hooked probably 15, landing 10 within 45 minutes. She finally gave up after she couldn't get her fourth one, so I set off to clean the fish. I set the pole up against the dock and noticed several fish by the cleaning station (as always), so I decided why not....

Not even 30 seconds later I had a 18 3/4 super fat rainbow take my 2lb test for a test drive. Sorry about the bad quality of picture, but it was 2am and the fog was rolling really bad, not to mention the 2 year old $5 disposable camera!

[WebFreeman]

Nice report. What were you using, esp. to hook the big one?

[itsdesignateddave]

I'll never tell (at least without reading the rest of the reply!)

I had good luck on anything white all weekend. I caught the first couple on an old crappie jig (1/16oz white). A couple on 1/16 oz white rooster tails. After this we rotated between corn, nightcrawlers, and power eggs, and corn/worm/powerbait combos. I tried my luck with a black/gold stick bait, but to no avail. In the same spot I caught the large rainbow a younger guy caught a brown about 22-24" about an hour before I caught mine (of course on a brown/black stick bait). We seemed to have good luck for about 30-45 minutes on baits, then had to switch to something else and it would pick up again. Everyone I was with ended up coming back to the white power eggs at one point or another and landed several fish, including the big one. At one point there were 4 of us on the dock and 3 of us hooked up within about 10 seconds of each other. On top of all the rainbows I think we ended up with about 5 suckers also, all caught on Friday.

Oh, and by the way that fish is back swimming in the lake so I can catch him again next year.

I only had him on the stringer so I could go get someone to take a picture.

We watched several of them swimming under the dock by the guts on Thursday and Friday. I know this was one of the "average" fish as he had a scar on his head that was easily recognizable, even under water. Since he was almost 19" the largest one swimming with him had to be at least 30" (easily could have been approaching 36"). At one point they were right next to each other and he was over twice the length of the one I caught.

On another note I will have to catch an even bigger one next year as my co-worker/boss was down there several years ago and caught a 37" 10.5 lb rainbow just north of fall creek. He has a copy mounted in his office so I have to look at it every day.....

[Seth]

Those big trout like those gut piles the anglers leave them at the cleaning stations. A couple years ago I landed a 10 pound 27.5" rainbow off the docks at Lazy Valley. I hooked him right by the cleaning station with a white Trout Magnet. It probably resembled a little piece of gut wiggling in the water. It also had a white power egg in his mouth from where somebody had hooked it before. There were three other trout that were twins to the one I caught that we hooked, but could not land. One broke my two pound test and the other two had the hook pop out of it's mouth.

Years ago, my dad seen a brown swim out from under the dock there at Lazy Valley that he said looked like a salmon. He said if it wasn't 30 pounds then he must be crazy.

[WebFreeman]

Thanks for the details designateddave. We're thinking of bringing the kids down this august and I'd like to get some better fish off the docks.