The fishing is Slow right now. From what we’ve heard, there was an algae bloom that killed a number of fish. There are still fish alive in the lake, but not fishing like it was. Best flies right now: Chironomids, Parachute Adams, Damsel Nymphs Best Lures: Copper Kastmaster, Green/Black Panther Martin, Pearl Swedish Pimple Best Baits: Worms, Chartreuse Powerbait
The fishing is Fair to Good right now. Best fishing in the early morning or evening. Best flies right now: Balanced Leeches, Damsel Nymphs, Tan Tent Wing Caddis, Parachute Adams Best Lures: Red/Gold Kastmaster, Green/Silver Panther Martin, Rainbow Trout Rooster Tail Best Baits: Rainbow Powerbait, Green Fireballs
Some info from the game and fish biologist about the fish kill this past weekend. Recent Gelatt Lake fish kill event: On Friday July 9th anglers at Gelatt Lake were catching fish. But by the morning of July 10th, hundreds of trout were lost due to low oxygen conditions. In addition, thousands of dead Fathead Minnows were observed. Oxygen most likely fell to lethal levels during the night due to plant respiration. While a good proportion of fish died from a lack of oxygen, it was not a total fish kill. There have been reports of fish still being caught since the event. Aerators were in operation and might have provided a zone of better oxygenated water for some fish to survive.
The fishing is Fair right now. Fishing is best if you can get out from shore, even 20 yards out. Still waiting to hear about the impacts of the smallmouth and walleye stocking. Best flies right now: Chironomids, Thin Mint, Mr. QT Best Lures: Copper Kastmaster, Firetiger Rapala, Red/Silver Swedish Pimple Best Baits: Worms, Chartreuse Garlic Powerbait
The walleye fishing is Good right now. The trout fishing is Fair. Best Flies: Balanced Leech, Hare’s Ear, Olive Scud Best Lures: Reaper Lures, Firetiger Rapala, Rainbow Blue Fox Best Baits: Worms, Red or Chartreuse Powerbait
The fishing is Fair right now. The fish are moving deeper during the middle of the day. Best flies right now: Balanced Leech, Olive Hare’s Ear, Damsel Nymph Best Lures: Red/Gold Panther Martin, Orange Black Fury, Brown Trout Cyclone Best Baits: Worms, Chartreuse Powerbait
The fishing is Slow to Fair. Best flies right now: Balanced Leech, BWO, Damsel Nymph Best Lures: Silver/Chartreuse Blue Fox, Blue/Silver Kastmaster, Rainbow Little Cleo Best Baits: Worms, Leeches
The fishing is Slow right now. Water is murky and mossy. Best flies right now: Thin Mint, Damsel Nymph, Burgin’ Bugger Olive Best Lures: Rainbow Daredevil, Black and Yellow Panther Martin, Chartreuse Best Baits: Fl. Red Powerbait, Leeches To locate Diamond in a “maps app” search for Bosler Reservoir or you will end up in the wrong place on private land. Take I-80 to exit 279 Cooper Cove and head north.
The fishing is Fair right now. Fishing is best early morning and late evening. Plenty of dry fly action. Best flies right now: BWO, Parachute Adams, Damsel Nymph Best Lures: Firetiger Cyclone, Green/Gold Panther Martin Best Baits: Red, White, and Blue Powerbait, Night Crawlers
The fishing is Fair right now. With the warmer weather, fish are moving back towards the middle of the lake midday. Early morning and very late evening will produce the best results. Best flies right now: BWO, Damsel Nymph, Thin Mint Best Lures: Copper Kastmaster, Rainbow Blue Fox, Thomas Colorado Gold/Silver Best Baits: Rainbow Powerbait, Baby Nightcrawlers
The fishing is Fair right now. With the warmer days to rainbows and kokanee are moving back out a little deeper Best flies right now: Thin Mint, Goldie, Renegade, BWO Best Lures: Red/White Daredevil, Rainbow Trout Blue Fox, Firetiger Rapala Best Baits: Worms, Florescent Red Powerbait
The fishing is Good right now. Like Gelatt, best fishing is early morning or very late evening. Best flies right now: Blue Winged Olive, Renegade, Mosquito Best Lures: Rainbow Rooster Tail, UV Firetiger Panther Martin Best Baits: Worms
The fishing is Fair to Good right now. Best fishing is early morning or very late evening (8pm). Best flies right now: Blue Wing Olive, Boatman, Elk Hair Caddis Best Lures: Green/Gold Holographic Panther Martin, Green Black Fury Best Baits: Orange or Chartreuse Powerbait
The fishing is Slow right now. The fish seem very picky lately. Best flies right now: Hot Head Leeches, Parachute Adams, Renegade Best Lures: Rainbow Pattern Mepps or Kastmaster Best Baits: Worms To locate Diamond in a “maps app” search for Bosler Reservoir or you will end up in the wrong place on private land. Take I-80 to exit 279 Cooper Cove and head north.
The fishing is Slow to Fair right now for trout and Good for walleye if you can get out on a boat. Best Flies: Hot Head Leech, Thin Mint, Bite-Me Buggers Best Lures for Trout: Thomas Colorado Spoons, Daredevil Rainbow Spoons Best lures for Walleye: Reaper Lures, Worm Harnesses Best Baits: Worms or Leeches
The fishing is Fair right now. Seems to be on and off depending on the weather. Best flies: Balanced Thin Mint, Hot Head Leech, Chironomids Best Lures: Brown Trout Panther Martins, Copper/Orange Thomas Cyclones Best Baits: Red or Chartreuse Powerbait
The fishing is Fair right now. Dry flies are good on a warm, calm day. Best flies: Balanced Leeches, Renegades, Boatman, Flashy Olive Scud Best Lures: Mepps Orange Black Fury, Panther Martin UV Firetiger Best Baits: Red/Pink Powerbait
The fishing is Fair right now. Dry flies are out! Best Flies: Chironomids, BWO, Renegade, Black Gnat Best Lures: Green/Silver or Green/Gold Holographic Panther Martins Best Baits: Nightcrawlers
The fishing is Fair to Good right now. The rainbows are still in spawn, but only for another week or so. Dry flies are possible on a warm, calm day. Best flies: Hot Head Leech, Olive Buzzer, BWO, Renegades Best Lures: Red/Gold Panther Martin, Rainbow Pattern Rapala Original Floater Best Baits: Red/Orange Powerbait
The fishing is Fair right now. Warms days will even allow a chance to use dry flies! Best flies right now: Balanced Leech, BWO Dry Fly, Renegade Best Lures: Copper Kastmaster, Rainbow Original Floater Rapala Best Baits: Worms
The fishing is Fair right now. Rainbows are in spawn. Best Flies: Hot Head Leech, Egg Patterns, Bite-Me Bugger Olive Best Lures: Rainbow/Gold Spoons Best Baits: Worms, Leeches
The fishing is Fair. The lake is accessible but the road is a bit muddy. Best flies right now: Balanced Leeches, Olive Buzzer, Chan’s BMW Leech Best Lures: Rainbow Pattern Spinner, Orange Blade/Yellow Body Panther Martin Best Baits: Fluorescent Red Powerbait, Worms To locate Diamond in a “maps app” search for Bosler Reservoir or you will end up in the wrong place on private land. Take I-80 to exit 279 Cooper Cove and head north.
The fishing is Fair to Good Best flies right now: Green, Orange, and Black Leaches or Balanced Leaches, smaller size Streamers (buggers) in olive or brown. Best lurers right now: Brown(copper) and orange Thomas spoons, Red/Gold holographic Panther Martin Best bait right now: Night crawlers, leaches, Red or R/W/B Power Bait
The fishing is Good right now. We’ve seen plenty of large, spawning rainbows caught in the last few weeks. Best flies right now: Balanced Leech, Hot Head, Scuds Best Lures: Gold or Rainbow Trout spinners Best Baits: Florescent Red Powerbait
The fishing is Good right now. Rainbows and Cutthroat are very aggressive in the early morning or late evening. Best flies right now: Chironomids, Balanced Leech, Boatman Best Lures: Copper/Bronze Kastmasters Best Baits: Florescent Red Powerbait
The fishing is Good right now. Plenty of action over the last couple of weeks. Best flies right now: Chironomids, Balanced Leeches, Hot Heads Best Lures: Copper/Bronze Kastmasters Best Baits: Red/Pink Powerbait
The fishing is Fair to Good right now. Rainbows are spawning so it’s a great time to head out. Best flies right now: Balanced Leech, Hot Head, Scuds Best Lures: Red/White spinners or spoons Best Baits: Fluorescent Red Powerbait
Hattie was about 40% open maybe a bit more. There are 3 separate open areas; from the the West end all the way to just past the point, some in the narrows and by the old boat ramp. You can find fishable open water if you are looking for it. Dam and main boat ramp are still locked in ice.
Meeboer was 100% open and free of ice. Looking forward to some great ice off fishing.
Twin Buttes opened up significantly yesterday in the wind. About 65% of the lake is now open including the boat ramp. There is still ice in the first bay and on the East end of the lake by the first outhouse. It was open water from the West end all the way past the boat ramp and all along the North shore. Should start to fish well with chironomid flies, and eggs but we’ll have to see how this goes this year.
Twin was still completely capped but edges are shot every where we looked.
Gelatt was 70%+ open water with plenty of fishable area from shore. Boat ramp was clear of ice. East end was still capped with ice and a small amount of ice was still left on the West end. Fishing was fair to good before ice started to come off.
Meeboer was about 40% open with fishable water on the East and South sides. Boat ramp was clear of ice. The west end bay and 1/2 of the “horseshoe” was still capped. Fishing had been a little bit slower but should pick up as ice comes off
Lake is capped but ice conditions very and are thin around the shore. 1.5″-3″ of ice. Fishing has been hard to report with ice conditions changing daily.
Fishing has been slow as the ice has been not cooperating. Lake is almost completely capped with a small open area on the west side in the middle. Ice is very clear but appears extremely thin.
Fishing has been fair. Plenty of open water, only ice today was on the east end of the lake.
Lake is wide open and fishing has been fair. Better if you can catch a day with less white caps, which has been hard the last couple weeks.
Fishing is fair. Flies: Scuds (olive, tan, grey), Midges (red, olive, black), Damsels (blue and green), Leeches (balanced and hot-heads), Streamers (olive, brown, orange, purple) Bait and Lures: Rapalas (fire tiger, rainbow, brown in countdown, floating, and jointed), Krocodiles, Daredevils (red/white, black/white), redworms, large nightcrawlers, Pink and green glitter powerbait
Fishing has been good to great. Bait: eggs, worms, power bait (red, grape) Flies: prince nymphs, damsel nymphs, mosquitoes, scuds Luers: Thomas spoons(gold/red, gold with dots)
Fishing has been fair. Lots of people have been heading out the last couple of weeks. Flies: scuds, damsel nymphs, hot heads Bait: power bait (red, corn), worms. Luers: Mepps and Panther Martins (reds, yellows)
Fishing has been slow to fair. Catching a good amount of the small stockers that where put in this spring but big fish have been slow from shore, better from a boat. Lake is extremely full so bank fishing can be hard. Bait: worms of bottom, power bait (rainbow, green) Flies: big streamers, Bite-me-buggers, hot heads, eggs Luers: Dardevil (red/white, gold), rapals (brown trout, pearch)
Fishing is slow. Either a long day or big fish. Flies: streamers, leeches, chironomids, amphipods Lures: Rapalas (fire tiger, rainbow trout, or brown trout); rooster tails (fire tiger and rainbow trout); mepps (bright and flashy colors) Bait: night crawlers
Fishing is fair to good! Flies: chartreuse copper johns, chironomids, hot-headed leeches, wooly buggers in olive or brown, amphipods, and damsel nymphs Lures: kastmasters with red, gold, silver, or pink; rooster tails (rainbow patterns and gold); rapalas (rainbow or brown trout patterns) Bait: night crawlers
Thanks to or partners at Two Dogs for gitting out and checking some lakes yesterday. Now is a great time to look at booking your early season trip. https://www.flystore.net/two-dogs-guide-service/ Lake was 90% still iced over. Road was not passable all the way to lake.
Thanks to or partners at Two Dogs for gitting out and checking some lakes yesterday. Now is a great time to look at booking your early season trip. https://www.flystore.net/two-dogs-guide-service/ Alsop is 40-50% open. Should be good fishing this coming weekend.
Lake is 98% open and boat ramp was clear of ice this morning (but not free of 3′ white caps). Only ice I saw was on dam at the north end and shoreline.
Lake is 90% iced hot shoreline is opening up and ice looks sketch on most of the lake. A couple of open shore areas that are fishable on the southwest shore past the heat ramp. A couple diehard wind fighters out this morning in one past the walking gate.
Lake is 85% open. Only ice is on the west bank out toward the aireator 150 yards. Only concern would be the flow becoming detached and shifting in the lake. Should be a good spot to hit open water this weekend.
Lake is about 50% open. East end is iced over for around 250 yards then opens up completely. Ice starts on the west end by the point on the north side then opens up again at the west end.
Lake was open from the boat ramp area to the East. Ice on west end was 3″-7″. Be careful as warm weather can effect the ice quickly. Fishing has been good. photos from 3/6
Lake was open from the boat ramp to the aerator around to the South. the rest of the lake was capped with ice. Be careful as warm weather can effect the ice quickly. Last thickness was 6″-8″ Fishing has been Good the last two weeks. Pinks and greens working the best as of late. Photos from 3/6
lake is still capped on 3/5/20 last ice thickness report was 6″-10″ Fishing has been Slow to Fair.
Lake is still capped with 4″-6″ of ice be careful as warm weather can effect the ice quickly. Fishing has been fair. Blue and yellow jigs with meal worms.
Fishing was Good to Great Ice was 8″-12″ water around the aerator was open. blue colors and orange power bait.