I'm sure some of you know of Paul Res, north of Spencer,west of Monida. In the early 80's my dad worked on rebuilding the damn there,he took me with him and I spent the summer fishing the endless beaver ponds for Brookies, as I remember the reservoir it's self had some pretty good sized Brook Trout in it, 3-4 lbs. Just wondering if anybody has ever fished it through the ice, I'm sure you would need a snowmobile to get to it.
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I have fished at Paul reservoir for about 20 years and can't remember catching a single brookie in the lake itself. In the creeks below the reservoir there are a lot of little brookies. There used to be some very nice cutts in there but I think it gets a lot more pressure than it used to. I have thought about ice fishing there but never found anyone with access to a snowmobile that thought it was worth the effort. I would be very interested to know how you did if you end up going.
Cole
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No doubt you are right about the big fish in the lake being cutt's, I never caught anything of any size out of the res. I was just a 8 yr old kid, and I remember catching the little brightly colored fish out of the creek and being told that they were brookies. One day a old man and old woman showed up in a old white car and fished for a couple of hours and left with what seemed like a trunk full of really big fish, being a kid I assumed that they were brookies also. Not even sure what got me thinking about that place, just a flashback to the good ol days I suppose.[
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Paul Res. has been on my (ice) to do list for years, I am always hoping for early ice and no snow so I can get there. With Henry's Lake though it always becomes a second thought. The last time I ever fished with a regular pole was at Paul and I caught lots of little cutts. I love places like this--and they themselves become goals for the hardest of ice fishermen.
OvidCreek
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