08-23-2004, 05:51 PM
Got back last night from Island Park. We fished Island Park Res on Wed, Thursday, and Saturday. Never made it to Henrys. IP res is at about 40% capacity but still plenty of water to launch at both ramps and lots of fishing room. Lots of islands out of the water and plenty of shallow points to ruin your prop on so be careful. The first day (Wed) would have been a complete bust except for the 6 1/4 pound rainbow that my nephew caught. I'll post a pic when I get it downloaded off the camera. It was our only bite and only fish all morning. Only 4 other boats in that area fishing. On Thursday we took the float tubes and 2 of us fished from the tubes while 3 fished from the boat. The boat people caught 1 fish on a worm and a marshmellow while the tubers got 8 fish on leach patterns. All the fish were in the 2-3 pound range and all rainbows. Only 3 other boats out that day as well. On saturday we went again but only the two tubers went. We used the same leach patterns in the exact same area as Thursday but only got one fish. Since it was saturday there were about 12 boats in this area and some were fishing with leaches/wooley buggers and some were bait fishing. They averaged about 1/2 a fish per boat on average from what I saw on saturday. Many were commenting how slow the fishing was compared to the last few weekends...... I guess they have been getting a few the last few weeks......... I thought we would really get stuck into them on saturday since we seemed to have figured out where they were and what they were hitting on thursday but as usual we got out smarted by the fish and they either moved elsewhere or where feeding on something else. We had a very fun trip and look forward to doing it again next year.
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