Fishing Forum

Island Park is fishing very well . Both Friday and Saturday . On saturday I landed 20 fish mostly planters but some between 2.5 and 4 pounds . Curt G.
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You did better than I did. My friend and I were up there Saturday and I only caught one. It was a nice 16" kokanee but that was it. Where were you fishing and what were you using. We were fishing with worms, plastic crawdads, spinners, and trolling spoons, but we couldn't get a bite. We were on pontoons so we couldn't go too far so we just stayed around the dam most of the time.
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We were in Trudes Bay using night crawler and marshmellow . The bite was good all day . You need a boat to get there . Try the west end in your tubes . I think you will do better than buy the dam . Curt G.
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We almost went down to the west end I guess we will have to try that next time, thanks for the tips.
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Sounds like a good couple days of fishing Curt! A friend and I went to Island Park on sunday for the first time but didn't have any luck at all.

Where is Trudes bay at? We launched just north of the dam on the concrete ramp. Then headed south past all the houses ( man I wish I had that much money [] ) and fished around down there a bit. It was my first time at the lake and I didn't know where we should go.

We trolled some spinners, worms, just about everything I could think of but didn't get a strike. There was lots of moss down there that made trolling hard. We thought about just dunking a worm for a while but there was a storm heading our way so we just headed back.

I think that will be the last trip out in the old boat this year. On the way back to the dock the big motor lost power and wouldn't build rpm's. We put the trolling motor in and used them both to get back to the ramp at a blazing 7 mph. Just as we were loading the boat it started to pour rain so we lucked out there I guess.
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Sorry to hear about your boat . Trudes Bay is 6.5 miles south of where you launched . It is protected from alot of the storms that stir up the lake and the water stays clear and cool . Curt G.
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Thanks alot Curt. Do you know of any maps of Island Park reservoir, showing all the names of ramps and bays? I have looked for a book of Idaho lake maps but haven't found one yet.
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I don't know of any good maps of it . Once around the lake with anyone who knows it , and your good to go . If we are ever up there at the same time I would be glad to show you the lake . Curt G.
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Thanks for the offer Curt. Hopefully we can meet up over there some day. Jake
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Trudes also has a sumberged dike or road under the water that seperates it from the rest of the lake. The fish really seem to stack up along the dike when nothing else is working.

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There are two dams . One just east of the ranch house and one about 300 yards east of that one . They were built before the reservoir was filled , and were used as a hatchery . When the lake gets down to about 17% there are alot of Props and lower ends of boats damaged on the first dam on the way in . We did well again this weekend in 17 feet of water straight out from the cabin . Water Temp. was 65 Degrees on the bottom . Curt G.
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