I was part of a 2-boat 20-fisherman camp at Fish Lake this past week. The total fish caught (between Wednesday night and Friday night) was somewhere in the neighborhood of:
600 perch
120 rainbows
10 Macs
2 Tigers (both dinky)
1 chub
Fishing wasn't the only activity (we spent the morning and early afternoon Friday hiking to the Crater Lakes -- or better named, Crater Swamps).
Best thing was I believe I converted some new fishermen to the sport!
Unfortunately it was windy almost the entire trip and our anchors didn't allow us to jig for the bigguns... but the trout fishing was good and the perch fishing was ridiculously fast.
A special thanks to those who sent over tips!
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Sounds like a great time! I am heading up there for this holiday weekend. I have a boat with all the gear, but I am in no way familiar with what catches fish there. I don't really want to catch perch but would love to catch some rainbows and even more so, Macs! do you have any pointers of where on the lake is best and what to use?
thanks
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[quote MasterDaad]I was part of a 2-boat 20-fisherman camp at Fish Lake this past week. The total fish caught (between Wednesday night and Friday night) was somewhere in the neighborhood of:
600 perch
120 rainbows
10 Macs
2 Tigers (both dinky)
1 chub
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No splake??
(any pictures? we'd love to see some!)
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Sounds like a great trip. I hope your hike to Crater lakes were not for fishing purposes, they are cool volcanic craters but holding any significant amount of water is not something accomplished there. 600 perch caught, thats awesome I hope non of them made it back into the lake. Those silly things are the scourge of the lake.
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Some responses:
It was windy up there most of the time so we didn't get to anchor and fish for the Big Mac's up there as much as we wanted to.
We did troll around a lot for trout and we could anchor shallow and hit perch.
Trolling we did best trolling flies on type VII sinking line or dodgers with wedding rings tipped with worm or perch meat. (I hate pop-gear but lots of people use it instead of dodgers)
We did best for Macs jigging white, green or chartruese tube jigs tipped with perch meat.
The perch we caught on small jigs tipped with a tiny bit of worm (while it lasted) or perch meat when the worms were gone. The "tipping" helped a little but frankly wasn't required.
Only about 100 of the 600 perch went back in the lake (no place to put them). We fried the big ones and trashed the smaller ones. I made the crew fully aware of the perch situation down there before we went.
The hike to the crater was about the hike but we were hoping for a nicer destination than the swamp we found. Oh well, it was a nice hike through the trees and not too far.
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