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I am headed down to fish lake this friday and saturday to go camping with some friends and was wondering if anyone knows the lake well enough to give me some pointers. I would love to get into some macks while I am there and whatever else there is. If anyone has any advice I would love it. I will probably have acess to a boat, but I don't think there are any downriggers. I will also have my fishfinder. I am going to bring my pontoon and float tubes as well just in case.
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i dont know the lake well enough to give all the info you want but i do know who does, pikeman, he is up there all the time, you can pm him but he doesnt get alot of computer time so he may not reply, there is a good chance that he will be there though.
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hey hows it going. Well i know fish lake really well even though im only 15 years old i have gone every year of my life. alright so you have access to a boat and fishfinder thats a good thing how about lanterns k to get into the nice sized rainbows go into about 60 to 70 feet of water and hang lanterns over the side of the boat but also anchor off. i do this every single year and me alone catch 50 to 100 fish a night. to get into the macks and the splakes go just alittle deeper in 80 85 feet of water and drop anchor oh ya and use worms drop to the bottom and bring it up about 1 foot to 2 feet of the bottom same with the rainbows. i was up there over the 6th to the 9th and also the 22 to the 29th of july and we did awsome at night. oh and if the wind isnt the best out on the water go to where the river comes out by the big lodge and throw out either a worm or green power bait or rainbow power bait i was fishing where the river came out and caught a 20lb mackinaw and its getting mounted on my wall it was nice well hope you have fun and good luck on the fishing oh ya one more thing for trolling drop deep with pop gear and a worm that does good to well good luck
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thanks for the info. I do have a couple of lanterns, but the boat has to be back by 8:00, but I do have some float tubes and a pontoon boat. I will have to see if I can find a way to use lanterns. Any advice on where to fish?
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Hi Jed,
Use your float tube and fish straight out from the stream that is just north of the Fish Lake Lodge. You can't miss it, but be aware that the stream itself is always closed to fishing. Depending upon how many people are fishing from the shore (this is one of the best places to fish from the shore at Fish Lake) try in close to shore on out as far as you are comfortable going on your tube. You should catch some nice rainbows and splake, and have the possibility of hooking into a mack. Kastmasters and similar tipped with some perch should work for the splake and perhaps a mack. Tubes and bait should also get you into some fish.
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i saw one feller killing them on a small black fly fished through the stream, i wonder if you could cast it into the stream current and let it flot with the current. i know that it was a sinking/wet fly and he just fished it below a bobber
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any more advice?
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does this site have search capabilities?
There have been so many requests for information on how to fish Fish Lake over the last 4 months, that it gets tiresome trying to give it out. How many times does someone have to tell people to "jig along the weedline", "troll with a popgear, or big flat-fish", "fish deeper for the mackinaw, shallow for the splake, in the weeds for the perch".
It doesn't change much throughout the year. do a couple searches on Fish Lake, and you should come up with about 4 days worth of advice, and techniques on how to fish this lake. Personally, I wouldn't waste my time reading them all, because after you read 2 you will have enough information to start catching fish.
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the search engine doesn't work very well, at least all the times I have tried it it came back with all kinds of extra stuff that didn't have anything to do with what I was looking for,
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I always use spoons for the bigger fish in deeper water.The bigger the spoon the bigger the fish i have caught.I let them drop almost to the bottom then i jig them up about 10-20feet up then let them drop thats when i get the hits.Colors greennish yellow ,orange and a shiny chrome spoon have done it for me hope this helps.I will post pics of the spoons when fish4fish helps me resize them.
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thanks kent and everyone else who has given advice for down there. Hopefully we will be headed out tomorrow night. If not we will be headed down there fri. morning. wish me luck,
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Here are some of the spoons i have luck with.I forgot to scan the best one its a greenish yellowish perch colored one that ones a killer there!Good luck.
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