I'm looking to kill some time next week on an afternoon and looking into trying some gill fishing down at Twin Lakes. I've heard numerous reports of it being fantastic this time of the year.
Where are some good general areas of the lake to fish for bedding gills? A few of the guys I'm taking out don't have waders or tubes so we'll be fly fishing from the shore.
Thanks mucho!
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In my experience shorefishing is very iffy. It is difficult to get to where the bluegill are without being able to tube. I have seen some near shore near where the two lakes intersect on the East side.
As for the bluegill being on their beds. I would like to hear how it goes. I know the water temps are about two weeks behind the norm.
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Try anywhere you can cast through the trees. You may not get the biggest ones in those areas, but they are there. The water temps are slow in rising, but you should be good by next week.
Good luck. Let us know how you do, my mouth has been watering for some bluegill.
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I'm thinking about going to Twin Lakes to chase some bass and gills there next week as well. Hopefully the warmer forecast sticks and we get some fish moving in. I was at Lamont today and didn't see a single gill, and the bass weren't super aggressive either, just a small fish here or there. This time last year there were bass and gills absolutely everywhere on both reservoirs, you couldn't keep them off your line..
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I fished Lamont, Johnson, and Glendale last weekend. Johnson was the only place anything was moving as far as warm water fish go. They have stocked all of them with trout and they are very easy to catch. The water temp on all lakes there was between 54 and 60 degrees all five days I was there. Unless we get some temps in the upper 70's for 3-4 days in a row, fishing will be slow. The temps during the day in the 60's barely moved the water temps up to 60 for a few hours, and then the 30 and 40 degree temps at night bring the temps back down around 55. Blue Gill and LMB need a steady 60 degrees to get moving and around 68-72 degrees to even think about spawning. The bigger the lake, the longer it will take to warm, which is why Johnson was the warmest, Glendale was the coolest. Glendale and Twin are about the same size, so I would assume the temps are the same. With the outlook all week being cool, rainy, and windy, I would think about trying some place else. If the forecast holds true, next week we should have some middle 70's, maybe see that thing they call the sun, and things may look a little better.
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Thanks everyone for the advice! [cool]
We're going to try and go out Thursday so hopefully the weather will cooperate for us and give us the water temps that we need. If not we'll hit another lake in the vicinity. I'm just dying for a yummy fish fry.
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The forecast changes so much this year, but right now it's looking like mid to upper 70s Saturday-Wednesday, hopefully that will help. I know the gills like it warmer, but bass generally get pretty active when the temp hits 55 and they start moving toward spawning areas. The water at Lamont was steady at 60 while I was there, but fish were widely scattered and all small. Maybe it was the stormy weather passing through. Oh well, I do know a lake where the bigger fish are tight to the shore and active now, I was just hoping for some different waters to fish.
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I think things are just way behind everywhere. We are currently in Western Washington and it is usually ahead of Idaho on warming up. This year it isn't warm either. We fished Tanwax Lake and didn't catch any gills or bass that I know are there. We did catch trout, perch, and crappie. They seem to be much more willing in this cold spring weather when the gills and bass refuse to play.
Three weeks ago nothing in Glendale was biting. I am hoping that in a week or two things will warm up and change.
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Pocatello just had its coldest May on record breaking the record set in 1953. That should tell you a bit about what is going on.
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