06-01-2005, 06:17 PM
Bill and Brian,
Sound like you guys did pretty good over the weekend. I wish i could say the same. We were one of the first boats at the hatchery at 5:30 sat morning. My bro and I tubed trying every fly in the box while dad bait fished in the boat. We then moved over to pintail point where my brother caught one 2-3 pound cutt. A couple of my friends landed 3 or 4 fish around pintail point while we were at the hatchery. One of them was a big one guessed to be around 8-10 pounds. I'll get the pic and post it the next few days. We then fished the cliffs and then into the outlet bay and nothing there. So three of us fishing for 6 hours and 1 fish total. We fished again on monday in the wind and decided to drift flys from the boat around pintail point (waves too big for my tube!). Once again my bro caught 1 small one. We tried the outlet again to get out of the wind a little and nothing happening again. So again 5+ hours fished by 3 people and 1 fish! So it was a dissapointing weekend for us as far as catching goes. We always love getting up to the cabin and relaxing and just getting out on the water is great. But the catching was terrible. So once again Henry's lake kicks my butt. I can't remember the last fish I caught there. It had to be in the mid 1980's! But I am glad that someone got into some fish! We wanted to try trolling but we were in a brand new boat and trying to break in the new motor and the manual said to not be at idle speed for too long so that wasn't an option.
Bill, just curious, how did you fish in that heavy wind on monday. Did you drift fish? We tried everything in the fly box including black leaches, black buggers, electric blacks, canadian browns, canadian reds, purple showgirls, green sages, and about everything else I could tie on. Did you find anything that the fish seemed to be more interested in and what area of the lake did you catch most of your fish?
Any reports from IP res? Does the water need to drop down for the fishing to get good there?
Thanks for the reports!
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Sound like you guys did pretty good over the weekend. I wish i could say the same. We were one of the first boats at the hatchery at 5:30 sat morning. My bro and I tubed trying every fly in the box while dad bait fished in the boat. We then moved over to pintail point where my brother caught one 2-3 pound cutt. A couple of my friends landed 3 or 4 fish around pintail point while we were at the hatchery. One of them was a big one guessed to be around 8-10 pounds. I'll get the pic and post it the next few days. We then fished the cliffs and then into the outlet bay and nothing there. So three of us fishing for 6 hours and 1 fish total. We fished again on monday in the wind and decided to drift flys from the boat around pintail point (waves too big for my tube!). Once again my bro caught 1 small one. We tried the outlet again to get out of the wind a little and nothing happening again. So again 5+ hours fished by 3 people and 1 fish! So it was a dissapointing weekend for us as far as catching goes. We always love getting up to the cabin and relaxing and just getting out on the water is great. But the catching was terrible. So once again Henry's lake kicks my butt. I can't remember the last fish I caught there. It had to be in the mid 1980's! But I am glad that someone got into some fish! We wanted to try trolling but we were in a brand new boat and trying to break in the new motor and the manual said to not be at idle speed for too long so that wasn't an option.
Bill, just curious, how did you fish in that heavy wind on monday. Did you drift fish? We tried everything in the fly box including black leaches, black buggers, electric blacks, canadian browns, canadian reds, purple showgirls, green sages, and about everything else I could tie on. Did you find anything that the fish seemed to be more interested in and what area of the lake did you catch most of your fish?
Any reports from IP res? Does the water need to drop down for the fishing to get good there?
Thanks for the reports!
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