Huntington, E-lake, + ponds

[Ktrout]

Went up for the weekend with the wife to E-lake and camped right next to the water by the river inlet. Great weather during the entire trip and you really can't beat the scenery in that area. I read a few posts about E-lake being really good for some and slow for others. For us it was really good at times and really nonexistent at other parts of the day. We had a lot of success chucking minnows really early in the morning or late at night. Well the wife didn't get up in the morning so I had success then and we both had success later in the evening. With the wife sleeping didn't get any pictures of the nicer cutts, but none were huge anyways.

I also fished the river inlet a few different times during the day but I had only one bite. Used a number of jigs, spinners and minnows but no takers. The area of the lake we fished turned completely off except for the early and late times. We saw a lot of people fishing and didn't see one single fish landed the entire time we were sitting around the campsite. Well I actually did see someone on a boat catch one, but for the shore fishing, it was a no go when I was watching people fish.

With all of those minnows in E-lake, I don't know why those fish aren't as big as the cutts in the Berry. I was gaining weight just looking at all of that food. Glad they weren't hamburgers or candy bars or something.

We also tried a little pond close by e-lake for an hour or two and easily caught lots of planter rainbows on worms. That short trip was more for the wife than it was for me.

I also went to Huntington twice, once in the middle of the afternoon and once really early in the morning. The afternoon trip was really great fishing and I even enticed a couple of nice size tigers to play catch with me. The wife was using worms with no success and she finally decided it was time to use the trusty jig with a minnow. She started catching them right away. Most of the fish were biting within five feet of the shore. Didn't get a single bite outside of ten feet past the bank.

The morning trip to Huntington started out really slow but started to pick up a little after 8 with the tigers hitting spinners. Nothing wanted to play with minnows, oh well.

Next time I want to hit some of the other lakes in that area. Only saw a smaller section last time I was up there. No matter what part you are in, it is all beautiful country up there.

Thanks for all of the previous info people sent me earlier about conditions and places to go.
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[Kent]

Sounds like a fun trip Kory. Always good when one can get the wife out, even if they don't want to fish the early hours. Were the fish hitting flies in the evening (perhaps too early in the season for flies)?
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[Ktrout]

I didn't end up throwing any flies this trip. While at E-lake I was kind of being a lazy fisherman during the evening because I was sitting next to the campfire and only getting up when my bobber went down or my rod went bendo. Didn't sit down for any long period though, given all of the bites I had. I also saw lots of fish schooling up the minnows so that's what I threw at them. I am sure I would have had better success during the day at the dam, but the side of the lake with the boat ramp is not the place to be during the day.

At Huntington I never saw much of any surface action so I never tied on any flies. The pond I went to had a lot of surface action and a guy in a float tube fly fishing was doing well, but that was for planter rainbows.
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[Lonnie]

The area you were fishing on e-lake becomes a killer spot in about a month and then through out the rest of the summer and fall. Just think fly and bubble for some real fun action. The larger ones will also be present in july as they stage near the outlets for the spawn. So hit it again in a month or so. And if you want some fun stream fishing then, hit the rolfsons creek trail into the left fork of huntington (trail head is at the bathroom between cleveland and millers flat res's. 10 miles of roadless access there.
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[Kent]

If you fished the reservoir just up the road towards Fairview, that the stream flows into Electric Lake, you were fishing Boulgers. It can be fast action, for mostly recently planted rainbows.
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