Need advice for Oakley Reservoir

[oldfarley]

I'm thinking of fishing Oakley Reservoir this weekend and would like advice on tactics. Can it be fished from shore or should I take a canoe? What species should I target and with what lures? Also, has anyone fished it recently since the ice melted?
Thanks for any help
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[drowning_flys]

Welcome aboard [cool] It can be fished from shore and they do quite well. most just drown worms and marshmallows or powerbait . I would take the canoe as you could cover a lot of shore line. Things that work well for trout at Oakley are perch and hot steel rapala, Thomas buoyant in copper, gold or watermelon, cop car needelfish, flat fish in frog pattern as well as black, olive, and brown wolly buggers with a tiny split shot to sink them. For walleye try swim baits style soft plastic in blue gill and perch jigged just off the bottom as well as chartreuse and red 3 inch grubs tipped with a little worm. we fished it a few weeks ago and it was slow but should be picking up any day now. were planing on being up there this weekend also. still some ice up in the goose creek arm but lots of open water these were taken yesterday.













Good luck and i look forward to your report [fishin]
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[drowning_flys]

Had a wonderful day at fishing was slow but still some decent Oakley bows. Ice was breaking up nicely and even stranded us at the mouth of trapper creek for a few min until we renamed the boat ss ice breaker. There were tons of people out enjoying the sunny warm day.














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