I was talking to JT at Sportsman's and he mentioned some reports about bluegill and crappie in Twin Lakes. Has anyone tried TL lately?
It's my opinion that crappie are just about the best table fare you can catch. Of course I am about to eat my first Kokanee so that opinion may change! [
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I plan to go down this week sometime also.
Any info would help, even if its knowing what
areas of the lake show no fish. Kokes do not taste better than crappie.
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I was there last Tuesday . I caught 7 Perch and two trout from 12:00 to 04:00 . I had a lot of bites I missed . I was fishing in deep water out in the middle , mostly for Perch . There were people there before me and still there when I left that were fishing in shallow . I don't no what they were catching . Take a Camera at about 04:30 the Deer started coming down to the lake just as I was leveing , a lot of Deer it was cool and me with no camera . Good Luck . Curt G.
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For me, only the deeper middle part of the 1st lake at Twin has produced good results.
Were you using small hooks, jigs, worms? I have used micro jigs & meal worm spikes when I have trouble hooking perch.
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I was in the back lake . The jigs I was using were to big for panfish . I was planning on going to Island Park that day and fish for trout , but it was 31 degrees below zero up there that day so I went south . Like I said in the other post I missed a lot of bites . I don't think the panfish could get the hook in there mouth . Curt G.
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HEY Curt69 we where there today and landed trout ,no bluegill or perch.but it was a nice day
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Sounds like you had a good day . How many trout and what size . Thanks For the report . Curt G.
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] Hello Me and my Boy. Perch, Kokanee and walleye are about as good as they come for fish around here.
DeeCee
I ice fish not because I enjoy the cold, its because its the only time I can impress my wife, by walking on water. [laugh]
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I HAVE TALKED TO A COUPLE GUYS WHO HAVE SAID YOU CAN GET SOME LARGE BLUEGILS BUT HAVNT HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT CRAPPIE THE ONLY LAKE IN THE VALLEY I KNOW WITH GOOD CRAPPIE IS GLENDALE BUT THEY HAVE MERCURY FROM WHAT I HEAR.
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Crappie are just a larger species of perch. I have fished Glendale several times, both in the summer and winter, and never landed a crappie. I have caught some nice largemouth and bluegill, as well as some planter trout.
Never have tasted or caught a walleye. I hear they are found in Oneida Narrows Res. No idea if that is true but I intend on finding out!
P.S. DeeCee, the bit about impressing your wife with walking on water is great. Wish I would have thought of that one.[
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Crappie are kin to sunfish-
perch, walleye are a different .
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] Good to hear from you Me and My Boy!
Oneida Narrows does have walleye and I have caught a few and saw a few caught before in there.
I have a good friend and he and I used to do a little fishing there in his boat before he moved to Spokane Valley Washington.
He and I ice fished one year by lantern light and he pulled a three pounder out thru the ice using a jigging spoon with night crawler I believed.
On another occasion ice headed up to Oneida when I saw a storm headed that way. Fished the first rock cliffs jutting into the reservoir with a silver crocodile spoon. I had read that wave action from storms have a tendency to push bait minnows against lake side where the waves are pounding against the shore. I'd cast the silver crocodile spoon out and slowly real it in. BAM I caught five walleye within an hour, the biggest abount a lb.
The third occasion I saw two guys in their 20's float tubing with depth finders attached to their float tubes. Seems they would move along and when they saw a school of fish that might be walleys, they would drop a hook baited with a whole night crawler and jig it up and down in the school of fish. They each had four or five walleye on their stringers.
If I fish for walleye again I think I will float tube and use the jigging night crawler tactic.
The Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game stocked several hundred thousand walleye fry at least every other year in Oneida Narrows Reservoir. I believe they truck them up from Kansas if my memory serves me right. Some years they survive well, other years the fry don't survive well. I have fished for walleye in Keyhole Reservoir, Wyoming with a friend and had a great time. The eating was great too, white sweet flaky meat. Just like a large perch which they are a cousin to. Good luck fishing for walleye. Study up on fishing techniques for them, they are a tougher fish to catch.
DeeCee
I ice fish not because I like the cold, but because it is the only time of year I can impress my wife, by walking on water.
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i have tried onida a few times for walleye its usualy fairly slow, in the spring when they run up river to spawn they usualy do pretty good from the inlet up to the bridge, i have seen several 5lb or up from there they use rapalas and jigs. i do know a couple other spots for walleye pm me if your interestead.
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You make me jealous, the koke you were eating was it caught icefishing or in open water prior to ice up? I luv to fish for them as well as eat them summer or winter. The wife and I usually make a trip up to Anderson Ranch in the summer for the Kokanee but haven't done it for the past two summers, maybe this year.[fishin]
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Man, my wife cooked up some kokanee we caught on Tuesday in some kind of lemon/honey/dill glaze and it was to die for......she grilled them on the foreman grill and it was lip smacking....my 3 year old scarfed it too and my mother in law who is sketchy about fish asked me to go catch some more
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Thanks for the info, DeeCee. I love the challenge of learning to catch a new species. We don't plan on leaving Idaho, so I figure I can take my time with this one.
The kokes we caught at Ririe last week were great eating! I smoked some and pan-fried some ( I am a southerner you know! [
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