Anyone tried Beaver Lake lately, understand it was planted sometime recently with about 1,500 broodstock, ostensibly up to 5 lbs. And if so, method suggestions?
Supposedly it will be tomorrow(Friday). There have been a lot of boats and anglers out but no fish yet. Seattle Times had reported that it would be on Monday but the Issaquah Hatchery runs on its own schedule.
Tom, shoot me a PM if you want to connect at the lake. My son and I are going to float tube it....brrrrrr! but will be working traditional buggers and streamers and maybe even a pellet fly! Looking at heading over there Sat or Sun, or both. Should be a mad house but close to home, Mike
Reports? I'm going Monday, would love to hear how you did, what you were using. Have hit this the last 2 years. 2 years ago had spectacular results, last year not so much.
This morning there were so many boats that you were lucky if you could see the water. Lots of fish caught. Monday would probably be a better day if you want to wait for the crowd to disburse a little. I threw a white wooly bugger off my dock this morning and got a couple.
Deep or shallow? Sinking or floating line? Just wondering where those fish would hang in the water column with their new-found, short-lived freedom.
Matt- stockers usually hang near the top of the water column the first few days, untill they realize that 1- no one is throwing them pellets anymore, and 2.-there's death from above
Here is a link to a thread in the fly fishing forum that was talking about Beaver Lake as well. http://www.washingtonflyfishing.com/board/showthread.php?t=52610 I caught 2 on a BH white wooley bugger fished on a floating line with 2 split shots about 24 inches up the leader. I had one on but it LDR'd on a orange stimulater fished subsurface. Another fly fisher who seemed to be doing much better than I was said he was getting them all on a slow sinking line with a light green hale-bop leech. In the 2 hours that I was there, I only saw 3 fish rise so I fished entirely subsurface. An interesting note, all the fish that I saw or heard of being caught was in the wide cove just to the northeast of the WDFW launch. I could be mistaken though since I didn't check with anyone on the other parts of the lake but I didn't see anyone with anything on and all the people I passed on the way out were saying how bad the fishing had been.
Good info, thanks. I'm heading out soon. Probably put the sinktip on first. As I'm sure you know, it's a pain to change once your rod is already strung up. And I don't like carrying an extra rod on my pontoon, it just gets in the way and I'm always thinking about it back there.
Got one on a big green sparkly woolly bugger fished deep. Saw two other fish caught in 3.5 hours. Crowds were reasonable, catching was somewhat sucky. I put the fish back. Anyone ever eat one of those? I like fish, but last time I ate a pellet-fed fish it tasted like pellets--sorta muddy and fishy.
Was there a few weeks ago - had good luck with wollybuggers. Had planned to go on halloween but the weather was just nasty, being 5 minutes away decided to bag it for another day.
Are there spots where you can fish from the shore? I'm thinking of giving it a go this weekend. Thanks.
Not very good for a flyfisher. Honestly, you need a floating device to do much lowland lake fishing. Get a used float tube off of craigslist or somewhere else. I found one for 25 bucks, fins included. Or you could always try Green Lake.
:rofl: ..that's a line from a book Ed!..the whole quote is, "I hooked 5 and landed 8, why one was so large he threw up 3 legal size trout when I landed him." I'm just poking fun at the guy that's only willing to go chase stocker rainbows if someone on the internet tells him the catching is good
