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wrestlerstud32
do they stock fern ridge with trout? i hear it is a good warm water fishery though.
No they don't stock trout in F.Ridge. It does hold bass, crappie, carp, mud cats, etc. Basically like you said, warm water fishery. I've caught a few cats out of there, but haven't fished it much.wrestlerstud32 said:do they stock fern ridge with trout? i hear it is a good warm water fishery though.
wrestlerstud32 said:do they stock fern ridge with trout? i hear it is a good warm water fishery though.
specialk said:i have fished fernridge and caught some nice cutthroats its been a few years though.simply used eggs and/or worms and always fished up as close to the dam as you can possibly get on the outflow side. there is a cement slab you can walk on [no more than a few inches of water]and where the water comes out of the dam, fish one section over from that, [kind of slack water ] we used to catch some nice 14to15 inchers
SmallStreams said:Long Tom River hasn't received hatchery fish since at least the '60s (if it ever did).
Go to Google.com and enter +"Long Tom River" +cutthroat and you'll find some water quality & fishery reports that mention how cutthroat in Fern Ridge Reservoir make spawning runs up the Long Tom and tributaries. The unique aspect is that they take on the silver hue of searun cutthroat during the spawning runs.
These spawning runs occured before Fern Ridge Reservoir existed, but the silver hue didn't occur until the reservoir was built.
Water temperature is going to be the key to finding the trout. Find the coldest spots and you'll find the fish.
drownworms said:the long tom b4 and after dam holds trout.Used to fish the crap out of it when i was younger.In winter when lake is empty and gates are fully open wed walk down near the damn(long tom side) and use crappy jigs or eggs and will catch a lot of trout.Since they fixed the damn the crappie fishing in the lake has been poo poo.Going to try for cats this winter as they used to hit pretty nice after lake was lowerd.I'll have to make sure i check to see if the trout are still there also.