Lost Creek on June 9, 2025

[dubob]

Launched about 8 AM.  The wedge dock was high and dry 100 feet from the waters edge.  The curtesy dock was just barely in the water.  I managed to pick up and drop off my passenger without mishap.  We were the only powered boat there all day.  And in case you don't already know this, Lost Creek is 100% wakeless.

We were hoping for some kokanee and managed to put one 14" in the boat.  We caught about 30 trout, rainbows, cutthroat, & tiger trout.  All were below the slot.  We didn't keep any of the trout.  The HOT lure for the day was a chartreuse Paulina Peak behind a Deadly Venom chartreuse dodger.  Tried over a dozen different combinations and colors, but nothing came even close to the Paulina Peak/Deadly Venom combination.  Trolling speed was kept in the 1.7 mph +/- 0.2.  The weather was almost perfect with little or no wind and air temps 75 to 80 range.  We marked fish anywhere from the surface down to 140 feet.  All of ours came from 25 to 40 feet.  We stopped fishing at 2 PM.

The electric trolling motor ran for 6 hours and used 15% of my lithium batteries capacity.  

[Jig-fisher]

Thanks for the report. Sounds like a very typical Lost Creek day. Lots of small trout and a koke thrown in.  That's not too bad of a size on the koke. Did you mark any schools of kokes? How about chubs? Any big concentrations? I am in need of replenishing my chub supply sometime this year.

[AFDan52]

I've been thinking about goig up to Lost Creek myself for some Chub.

[wiperhunter2]

We were there a few weeks past and had the same success, guess the kokes numbers are down this year, we only marked two schools while we were there and after 5 passes over them we only got the one, very disappointing after the last two years of much better results.