Payson Lake

[TroutMan93]

Got up there a quarter after 9 and found a nice little picnic area for me and my lady. She ventured out onto the lake in her tube and I waded in the water and threw lures. I ended up catching 12, 11 rainbows and 1 brook. I caught 9 of the 12 on a gold Jakes Spin-a-Lure and the other three on a black wooly bugger on a Type 2 line.
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[gaetzchamp]

Good for you TMan. How'd your partner do in the tube?
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[TroutMan93]

She did fairly well for her first stillwater flyfishing outing. She caught six total 4 on flies and 2 on lures. All rainbows caught on buggers and gold jakes.
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[STEVEF39]

Ive never caught a brookie out of their, are there not very many or just harder to catch, Ill be heading down that way at the end of the month hopefully!
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[TroutMan93]

Its my first time catching one at Payson Lake. I usually caught them at the third lake on the southwest side in the trees by the dam on spinners and powerbait...thats before I started flinging flies [blush] I've only caught about 6 with flies at the third lake (cant remeber the name) with adams, renegades, and buggers. They usually average out at around 13" but the biggest brook I fooled out of there was 16.5"
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[Kent]

The lower reservoir is Box Reservoir, the middle is McClellan and the larger upper reservoir is Big East Reservoir.
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[TroutMan93]

I can never remeber the names of them. Thanks Kent.
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[berklyimx]

Actually the lower lake is McClellan and the middle is box. I haven't fished the lakes for a few years but certain techniques will catch a lot of brookies. Just nothing real big in any of the lakes.
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[Kent]

[quote berklyimx]

Actually the lower lake is McClellan and the middle is box. I haven't fished the lakes for a few years but certain techniques will catch a lot of brookies. Just nothing real big in any of the lakes.

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You are correct about the names. Big East actually has some decent sized trout if you are lucky enough to catch one.
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