[font "Comic Sans MS"][red][size 4] Hi all, Hey I was just wondering if there any lakes or reservoirs with lake trout fishing in Idaho?[/size][/red][/font]
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Check out this article. Looks like you could get a little of your gas money back if you want to fish Coeur d'lene for Lakers. [url "http://www.magicvalley.com/news_other/news_idaho/?storyid=/dynamic/stories/I/ID_KOKANEE_BAN_IDOL"]http://www.magicvalley.com/.../ID_KOKANEE_BAN_IDOL[/url]-
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He said a temporary ban is needed to keep Lake Coeur d'Alene from having a kokanee crisis like Lake Pend Oreille or Priest Lake.
Kokanee fishing was permanently banned on Lake Pend Oreille in 2000. The fish began to decline in the mid-1960s when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dropped the winter lake level. Combined with a boom in lake trout, which eat kokanee, the species tanked.
Today commercial fishermen are netting lake trout and [#ff0000]the state is paying a $10 bounty for every lake trout or rainbow trout longer than 12 inches that an angler catches[/#ff0000]. The goal is to revive kokanee by getting the predator-prey ratio in balance.
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][red][size 4] Geez, if a guy could go up there and spend a little time on that water and have a good day fishing it might just be worth the while and drive up there. Good idea.[/size][/red][/font]
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I believe Warm Lake east of the town of Cascade has them.
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][red][size 4] Thank you Kodiak, Thats the kind of stuff that I was hoping to hear. I need to make some notes on these places and go check them out one day soon or next year.[/size][/red][/font]
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As far as I know Pali
es and Bear Lake are the only places in Eastern Idaho that have lake trout. There is also the occasional laker caught in the South Fork below Pali
es Reservoir. A few other reservoirs (?Ririe, Deep Creek and Devil Creek?) in Eastern Idaho were planted with lake trout years ago but as far as I know do not have lake trout currently.
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Here is a website for the Lake Pende Orielle area [url "http://bayview-idaho.com/"]http://bayview-idaho.com/[/url] There are some forums there and lots of imfo that can help u out if intrested-good fishing! fishinotis
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