Slow at Blackfoot

[fast_randy]

I'm so disappointed with Blackfoot Reservoir this spring. As good as we done last fall, I expected great things this year. But so far I haven't seen one rainbow. I took two trips up there and found it still iced over, trying to hit first ice off. Then Thursday I did get up and was in the water at 6:30 am. I started at the Dam and fished a couple places without a bite for two hours. Then I left and drove to my favorite spot. PD point. PD point is a grassy point about half way down the reservoir on the west side. It is a long two wheel trail through many mud holes down to the lake. And at the end it crosses a gate and private property. I had found gate closed and a no trespassing sign there the last couple times I tried to get there. But so far this spring the gate is open and no sign. I was told the owner, a farmer from Soda Springs, would let you go on his property if you found him and asked. It was open for fishing for the first 10 years I was here in Idaho. But some idiot had gone through the gate and left the gate open, letting his cows out. So he started posting his property.
So I get down to the lake about 9:30 and fish for several hours and only get a couple bites.

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But Obifishkenobi was in town this weekend so I took him back to PD point. We were in the water by 6:00 and right off the bat I hooked a five pound cutthroat. Great start, but after that all we got was a couple bites and no fish.

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I do have a photo of the biggest cutthroat I have ever got at Blackfoot Reservoir, but add image won't let me post.

[meancuznalfy]

That's not good, give it a couple weeks and it should improve, might be spawning now.

[fast_randy]

That's not good, give it a couple weeks and it should improve, might be spawning now.

Lyle, They plant sterile rainbows in Blackfoot Reservoir.

[wiperhunter2]

That's not good, give it a couple weeks and it should improve, might be spawning now.

Lyle, They plant sterile rainbows in Blackfoot Reservoir.

They still could go through a false spawn, couldn't they? I know wiper are sterile and they do a false spawn every year. 
Hopefully the catching up there improves.

[meancuznalfy]

Yes, they go through the motions, usually go back to where they were put in the lake, stocking records don't show them as triploids.

[fast_randy]

That makes sense. I wonder where they plant them????

Add image let's me post the picture today.

[wiperhunter2]

That makes sense. I wonder where they plant them????

Add image let's me post the picture today.

Nice bow. I can't speak for how Idaho fish and game does their stocking but here in Utah they usually stock them right at the ramp.

[meancuznalfy]

Most every place I've seen they put them in at a ramp.