06-17-2009, 10:08 PM
06-19-2009, 03:06 AM
Two weeks ago.......
The lake is at 97% capacity, a lot of floating debris. Rumor had it the kokes were deep and hitting on worms with pop-gear. We caught a few brown, brookies and rainbow, all of them were very picky and none too large.
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The lake is at 97% capacity, a lot of floating debris. Rumor had it the kokes were deep and hitting on worms with pop-gear. We caught a few brown, brookies and rainbow, all of them were very picky and none too large.
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06-19-2009, 06:59 AM
Lakes at lower elevations are having a hard time turning on with warm water species with all of these nonstop late spring storms that are keeping high temps fifteen degrees below normal on the average across the northern part of the state. Of course i'm talking about warm water species so the trout are already active. Moon Lake should be active for trout right now but all the crud floating along from the extremely high run off definitely is going to cause some trolling problems. Moon lake will turn on all at once as soon as it gets hot in the valley and stays that way but by then you will have to bring a 50 gallon pump sprayer of Deet to keep the buffalo knats from carrying you away. Moon Lake is beautiful and it is great fun during the summer, but I won't lie to you; if Deep Woods Off had never been invented then I would never even consider going there during the warm parts of the year because one buffalo knat bite itches like hell for two weeks and several bites will make you scratch like a meth addict. Just bring alot of repellant and try black wooly buggers in a size eight behind a water filled 1" diameter casting bubble thrown way out and retrieved slowly and you will knock the crap out of the splake. I haven't done any fishing on the LFR above the reservoir but I want to. I found the LFR aqueduct as it comes underneath the access road to be crazy fun because I don't have to beg private land owners for access and I still get to catch a variety of the fish from the Lake Fork in the irrigation canal. Can you say Triploid Rainbows and Splake? I knew you could boys and girls. Don't forget the bug spray.
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06-19-2009, 06:18 PM
I have a family reunion in the area this weekend I might be up there on Sunday morning bank fishing for a couple of hours in the morning. You can only take so much "re-uniting" with family before you have to fish!
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06-20-2009, 11:39 PM
Let us know how you do. I have a cabin reserved for wed-sun next week.
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06-22-2009, 01:44 PM
It was a complete rain out, but being the idiot I am I went anyway. The temps were 34 degrees and wind and rain ideal JUNE fishing conditions right? I froze to death and fished from shore and caught 4 fish ranging from 5-15 inches the largest one being a splake.
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06-22-2009, 03:15 PM
Not to bad for those conditions, were you fly fishing in a float tube? or from shore? WH2
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06-22-2009, 09:15 PM
Just on shore this time... Tried to hid between the only two trees I could find near the dam.
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06-23-2009, 09:03 PM
I will be up there this Friday to Monday trolling. Should be decent weather, possibly rain again. I will let you guys know how it is
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07-14-2009, 04:23 PM
sorry for the long delay, went out of town again after we got back. The weather was great and the fishing was even better. We trolled in one of the small rental boats, used blue fox spinners and jakes spinners. Caught a lot of rainbow, couple of splakes and lots of kokanees. We kept a couple that were big enough and the rest went back to hopefully become moon lake monsters!
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