Flaming Gorge Report

[Jbworkin]

Cookie and I ran out Saturday for a quick check on the rainbow situation for bank tanglers at the Gorge. We checked 5 differnt bays, in between the pipeline and Buckboard, with my castable sonar. They just were not stacked up yet. Singles and doubles showed on the sonar but not the big spring pre-spawn gatherings we were looking for. We watched boats in the mouth of these bays picking up fish, so they may be starting to show up ( or they may have been catching kokes). 

Anyway, we caught a few. Jakes, Jointed Rainbow Rapala and white tube jig, but not fast action and no size.

Weather was fantastic and the wind stayed low till after 3.

Water temp was 42-45 (surface)

Another week or two and it should be game on for fast rainbow action from the shore as the big Boys and Girls wander in for thier spring frolic.  Boaters should find plenty of action while they laugh at us landlubbers.

I fished the Gorge Friday and Saturday.  There were no rainbows around the Lucern marina and we also went up carter creek and found low numbers there as well.  The weather was great though and most boat fishermen we talked to were picking up a few lake trout and Kokes.  The Lake Trout were spread out over much of the lake in ones and two’s and the action was slow but most were able to catch a few.