Anyone ever fished the reservoir above Emmett? Never heard anything about it so thought I would ask? Or even the river above the reservoir, believe it's the Payette....any fishing on the trib that runs through sweet up to ola and on?
Just a thought, was wondering if anyone had any experience with this.
Thanks in advance!
Why, yes I do. The reservoir holds smallmouth and largemouth, not a lot, but you can/will catch fish. But I recommend early morning. The water skiers/jet skis get really thick on the small reservoir. Use typical jigs or crank baits. I personally give up on it by late spring, to many recreation boats for me.
Now the river right below the Dam, especially right below the Dam at Wild Rose Park. Great for trout, catfish and smallmouth, even catch a few largemouths. I try to fish here a bunch, somedays you hit the jack pot, other days it's slow. Monday we got 1-18" trout and 2 smallmouths in about 20 minutes. That was slow so we left. Caught all on a 3" brown grub/lead headed jig.
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Thanks EZOP, I am so use to going east to the mountains I never thought of heading over that way and being in Meridian it's much closer.
Seen peoplpe try to flyfish below the dam ever.....may have to try this out. Well if your over there at all in the next few days we may run into eachother. I'll let you know how it went. Thanks for the informative post.
Wondering if anyone has ever hit the river running through Sweet and Ola....from google earth looks like some nice waters but you just never know.
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Went up there tonight, had some luck on the bass. Nothing of much size though.
Any chance you know what those huge yellow bee-looking things are called? Never seen those before and some guys up there were saying they had been catching trout with their bellies full of those things. Can't seem to find it on the net either.
Thanks for the info!
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Keep trying, theres plenty of 2 pound bass hiding in there. Not sure what those big yellow bee looking things are. I've seen them but I usually duck and run, lol.
I'm off for a few days, so let me get some chores done and maybe we can hook up tomorrow or the next day...
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