06-25-2021, 11:48 PM
I had my 1st day off from work in almost 2 weeks (except Sundays) and wanted to take the boat out. Wanted to chase some kokes at the berry, but the weather looked pretty iffy, so decided to go somewhere closer. I decided on Lost Creek. We started late because it was raining when we got up. We decided to go out to breakfast and hopefully the weather would clear a bit. It did, for a bit.
We didn't get up there until 930, was going to troll for trout 1st then try for chubs at the end. The 1st part worked well. We pulled rapalas and flicker shads on the downriggers 25-40' deep. The fish would come in spurts, mostly small cutts, but 3 small tiger trout as well. We doubled up nearly every time we would hook up with a fish. Tried running some surface lures, but they never got touched. Trolled to the back of the reservoir and tried for chubs where we caught them last year in 25 ft of water. Hardly any love at all. I could see schools on the finder, but they must have been pretty small. Only one chub.
The sky started to darken up with heavy clouds and an occasional bit of thunder started to roll in the distance. We decided to head back to the ramp. We trolled back and got a great double as the sky got really dark, the wind was whipping, and a few scattered rain drops started to fall. Didn't measure mine, but I figured over 20". My wife's nearly busted the slot, over 21.5, but just shy of that 22" mark. We pulled everything up and made the slow wakeless run back to the boat ramp. It was raining when we loaded the boat up. Those last last 2 were deep, 35' on the one side, 40' on the other. Most fish marked were that deep.
A lot of fun with my wife. We were trolling over 2 mph and up to 2.7 at times. They liked it fast.
We didn't get up there until 930, was going to troll for trout 1st then try for chubs at the end. The 1st part worked well. We pulled rapalas and flicker shads on the downriggers 25-40' deep. The fish would come in spurts, mostly small cutts, but 3 small tiger trout as well. We doubled up nearly every time we would hook up with a fish. Tried running some surface lures, but they never got touched. Trolled to the back of the reservoir and tried for chubs where we caught them last year in 25 ft of water. Hardly any love at all. I could see schools on the finder, but they must have been pretty small. Only one chub.
The sky started to darken up with heavy clouds and an occasional bit of thunder started to roll in the distance. We decided to head back to the ramp. We trolled back and got a great double as the sky got really dark, the wind was whipping, and a few scattered rain drops started to fall. Didn't measure mine, but I figured over 20". My wife's nearly busted the slot, over 21.5, but just shy of that 22" mark. We pulled everything up and made the slow wakeless run back to the boat ramp. It was raining when we loaded the boat up. Those last last 2 were deep, 35' on the one side, 40' on the other. Most fish marked were that deep.
A lot of fun with my wife. We were trolling over 2 mph and up to 2.7 at times. They liked it fast.