doublestrike

Last night I checked the weather report and was not too impressed, but when I got up this morning and ventured out to Ray’s (at Oh Dark Thirty) to deposit my paycheck and get the snacks, it looked like there was a chance that it wouldn’t rain. We had to leave town about 9:00 but at 8:15 it got the better of me and I called Steve and told him to come get my grandson and me, we were ready. As we ventured up Hwy 62 near the Butte Falls Junction the little tell tale drops started hitting the windshield. Then I looked at the hills north east of u and they really looked white. We pulled into the launch area and nothing was sticking but it was snowing pretty good. We launched, lit the heater, and immediately threw our stuff in and started to troll north along the shore in about………Wait ……. The faithful fish finder would not come on…………Oh NO!! I fiddled with the wires on the battery and still nothing. When I looked up, I could not see out the windshield, it was a white blanket. Well we just fished on like nothing was wrong.





No bites until just before the big point and Steve had one hammer his stuff and got him in the boat.





We made about 5 passes up and down the shore in about 50 to 55 feet of water at 45.5 degree temp (water). Of course it was snowing profusely now, and we fished on. Caleb had a nice hit, then a good hookup and reeled him in.






Then suddenly the bite quit and we decided to try over by the floating restroom. We rounded the corner and headed due west and threw in our stuff again. Caleb had changed to a frog pattern F-4 flatfish and got hooked up immediately.



This kid is a “FISHERMAN, FIRST CLASS”.

I finally gave up on the stuff I was drowning and changed to the same as Caleb and caught a couple and then he gets another one.

Between the floating restroom, and the shallow islands towards the marina, we caught and released 7 nice trout between the three of us. Funny though, some were fin-clipped and some were not. All were 12 to 13 inches. The last one I caught was kind of weird; it looked like it had been in the live well for several hours. Its markings were very faint almost translucent. Kind of makes you want to go hummmmmmmmmmmm. About 2:15 the snow let up a little and the you could actually see the boat ramp. We were all getting a little cold and so we decided to go home. Great day fishing, catching photo-ing and releasing.Got home about 4:00.

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doublestrike

With much anticipation, I am going to hit the lake Saturday morning. The weather has predicted 78 degrees and that means that by noon all the zoom zoom'ers will be there trying to release some of that pent up energy form the winter. We will go early and try the open water areas, then around 10:30 to 11:00 will try the quieter areas (speed limited-No Wake zones). Got some new fangled stuff to try out, and will report on their effectiveness.

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Brother Doublestrike........those shurly are mighty Beautiful pictures................Great Job...............

I've always liked Lost Creek Lake & the hatchery..............


It's going to be a Beautiful Weekend...................Best O Luck fishin'....................

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doublestrike

I got up early and got everything ready and Steve picked me and the boat up at 5:25am.

We launched at 6:02 and started trolling around the shoreline in about 50 to 60 feet of water. The water temp was about 48 degrees and the air temp was "COLD". I lit the heater and that helped a lot. The fish finder was pretty quiet and we were not getting any bites. We went to a little shallower water, about 30 to 40 feet and the water temp came up a little. We got close to the 'Big Point' and the fish finder finally started talking. Then Steve hooked one on his Panther Martin trolling outfit with a real worm and he came unlatched at the boat. It looked like a about 11 inches. Then I got into one about the some as Steve's and it came loose too. I was using a new fangled thing that I made myself and thought that I really had something. We got a lot of hits and stolen bait but we kept trying. At about 8:45 the sun came over the trees and the fish quit biting. We ran down to the rock wall due west of the marina and trolled towards the floating restroom. Steve caught a pretty nice 12 incher and boated it and released it. As we rounded the point SW of the restrooms, the fish finder screen went blank and would not come back on; IMMEDIATE PANIC!! I crawled under the dash and wiggled all the wires, and still nothing. I noticed that the negative wire had tape on it and wondered why, so I unplugged it from the lug and pulled on the wire and it came out of the lug way too easy. Steve performed surgery on the lug and got it opened up enough to put the wire back in and scraped it clean, it was pretty corroded. Then we re-crimped it, plugged it back in and VOILA!! Boy that was almost a CATASTROPHY. Then we ventured around the point and across the big cove towards Lost Creek cove and Steve hooks one and says "This one is pulling pretty good.", then I hook into a nice one too and we had fun playing a double. I reeled mine up and netted it then dropped it onto the floor of the boat, and went after Steve's fish. I almost dropped it out of the net but finally got it in the boat.



This is the results of the Double. The big one is 15 1/2" and mine was 13".

We went on around the point and back into Lost Creek Cove and fished it pretty good. I managed to catch one in the creek and then nothing.
We decided to try up at Red Rock and ventured up there and when we arrived we had some friends follow the boat for about half a mile then hopped out on the outcropping at red rock cliff.



They just stayed right beside to boat for a long time. It was really great.

We made several loops at Red Rock and had a couple of hits but no hook-ups.

We trolled up-river passed the falls and got nothing so about 3:30 we started for home.

It was a great day on the water, actually it was almost uncomfortably HOT!

I baked 4 Fish for dinner and they were exceptional.



Fishing IS!

Rick

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cavdad45

What a difference in just couple weeks.

doublestrike

I'll have to check with Steve and see what his line is.

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MbigcatchJ

douse lost creek have good bank fishing?

Hawk

I've caught a few trout & bass from shore before. There is also a pier there.

Below the dam there is a Mighty Nice fish hatchery open to the public............Cole M. Rivers.......................Enjoy................ ....

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MbigcatchJ

thanks!! sounds like a great lake!!