10-26-2019, 06:41 AM
My Echo report 10/25/2019
I spent 4 hours on Echo this afternoon. I nearly got skunked. Tried for trout and SM bass. Ended up with one 14” rainbow. It was thick and the meet was nice and orange.
Here is how it went. Got on the water at 3:00pm. Several fishing boats trolling and one fellow pontooner jigging for perch. There was lots of green stuff along the shorelines and floating in the water. The water was murky. I trolled several things from 10-20’ down (kokanee killer that Dubob used tipped with magots, dodger with bead and worm, flat-fish). Casted spoons, and a white tube-jig tipped with chub meat. After a couple hours I gave up on trout and went looking for SM bass. Threw ned-rigs and crawler jigs. Nada. I am wondering if they have gone deep now? Most of the boats were off the water by 5pm.
When trolling I was marking fish mostly in the middle of the lake suspended at 20’ and 50’. At one point toward dust I was just dragging my white tube jig tipped with chub at about 1.2 mph while I messed with another rod. That is when the rainbow nailed it. Within the next half hour I got a couple more hits on that jig. I tried actually jigging it often, but that didn’t produce.
I talked with the fellow pontooner. He was able to wrangle in some perch. He was very adept at perch fishing and was not interested in the slimmers like me. He was using a camera, etc. He told me that below 10’ he only had about 2’ of visibility. He also said that he saw a trout that was about 10 lbs follow one of his perch catches right up to the boat.
Well, long story short, I am guessing this lake is doing what is called “turning over” with colder water churning the bottom mass upward. I am no expert on this, but is would explain some of my day other than I am just a very poor fisherman.
The air temp was 55 F and water temp was 51 F on top. Nice sunny day.
I do have some questions for you experts. Do these lakes at this elevation turn over this time of year? If so, how long until the water clears up again? About what time in the spring do these lakes at this elevation turn over?
The rainbow I caught was about 14.5” long and thick with orange meat. I noticed that many rainbows were stocked in Echo in the spring at about 11-12” long. Would this rainbow be one of the spring stock or would it be 1.5 years after last year's stocking?
Thx.
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I spent 4 hours on Echo this afternoon. I nearly got skunked. Tried for trout and SM bass. Ended up with one 14” rainbow. It was thick and the meet was nice and orange.
Here is how it went. Got on the water at 3:00pm. Several fishing boats trolling and one fellow pontooner jigging for perch. There was lots of green stuff along the shorelines and floating in the water. The water was murky. I trolled several things from 10-20’ down (kokanee killer that Dubob used tipped with magots, dodger with bead and worm, flat-fish). Casted spoons, and a white tube-jig tipped with chub meat. After a couple hours I gave up on trout and went looking for SM bass. Threw ned-rigs and crawler jigs. Nada. I am wondering if they have gone deep now? Most of the boats were off the water by 5pm.
When trolling I was marking fish mostly in the middle of the lake suspended at 20’ and 50’. At one point toward dust I was just dragging my white tube jig tipped with chub at about 1.2 mph while I messed with another rod. That is when the rainbow nailed it. Within the next half hour I got a couple more hits on that jig. I tried actually jigging it often, but that didn’t produce.
I talked with the fellow pontooner. He was able to wrangle in some perch. He was very adept at perch fishing and was not interested in the slimmers like me. He was using a camera, etc. He told me that below 10’ he only had about 2’ of visibility. He also said that he saw a trout that was about 10 lbs follow one of his perch catches right up to the boat.
Well, long story short, I am guessing this lake is doing what is called “turning over” with colder water churning the bottom mass upward. I am no expert on this, but is would explain some of my day other than I am just a very poor fisherman.
The air temp was 55 F and water temp was 51 F on top. Nice sunny day.
I do have some questions for you experts. Do these lakes at this elevation turn over this time of year? If so, how long until the water clears up again? About what time in the spring do these lakes at this elevation turn over?
The rainbow I caught was about 14.5” long and thick with orange meat. I noticed that many rainbows were stocked in Echo in the spring at about 11-12” long. Would this rainbow be one of the spring stock or would it be 1.5 years after last year's stocking?
Thx.
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