Flaming Gorge Fishing

[knottyhookr]

I found out from a source in Wyoming who got a call thru to Game and Fish, right now  they are planning on having the boat ramps open and keeping them that way, further my source said you can get on line and also check with the US Forest Service before you travel to the lake and make sure nothing has changed.

This is good news and now I'm planning an isolation 1day trip if this weather will cooperate some. 

I went up to Flaming Gorge this Easter weekend.  I emailed Ryan Mosley of DWR before going to make sure I would be able to launch.  He said we were good to go barring any new restrictions.  We launched out of Lucerne Marina with maybe 20 other boats on Friday.  We were targeting kokanee and were told that the pipeline area was good.  Got on the water around 10:30 am and motored up to the pipeline.  Caught one there and it got kinda crowded so we went further north to anvil and gave that a whirl.  No love there so headed back down toward the pipeline.  Changed our tactics a little too.  We were running two lines on the downriggers about 30 and 40 feet and two lines on planer boards around 15 and 20 ft deep.  When we ran back down to the pipeline we raised our lines on the downriggers up to 20 and 25 ft and the planer boards up to 10 and 15 ft.  That made all the difference.  We limited out in no time and even had a couple of doubles and one triple.  Just another note we were long lining the downriggers at least 70 ft back and the planer boards at least 100 ft of to each side.  It was kinda rough fishing because the fish are up so high you didn't ever get any marks on the fishfinder.  A few on the bottom but those fish didn't want to play.  Tried Sheep Creek on Saturday and had a few boats there but not much catching was going on.  Got blown off the lake pretty early too.  Sunday went out again for kicks and giggles.  Only one other truck and trailer in the parking lot.  Snow early in the morning that broke around 10 but was still cold as heck.  Went back to the pipeline area and had a few kokes and a couple of rainbows play but set them all free.  Again up high between 10 and 25 ft.  Also we go up through Evanston to Lucerne.  On the Wyoming Fish and Game website said the watercraft check station was closed for the season.  It was open!!!  Good luck to you if you decide to venture up there.