Electric Lake July 3rd

[Kent]

Fished Electric Lake, with Kory,our first time from a boat. Using the i-Pilot, we slowly moved along the shoreline casting and bouncing back to the boat, until we marked some fish, and then we would use the virtual anchor, and fish that spot for a while. Following the suggestion from several other anglers, we tried casting Rapalas for awhile without success. Switched to tube jigs, tipped with fresh redsided shiners that we caught that morning, or chubs for cut bait, and it was fish on for most of the day. We caught tiger trout with a few Yellowstone cutthroat mixed in. I got reminded again how aggressive those tiger trout are. Several times, we had them follow our jigs right to the surface, some times even jumping out of the water as we lifted our jig up. We caught many of them when we immediately dropped our jigs back down to the fish. They also fight much harder than most other fish their same size. They are also a beautiful fish. We never kept an accurate count but between us we caught around 50 to 60 fish. Of course, Kory may have got a few more than I did, but not many.

I had plans of also trying for the kokanee, but because we were having so much fun with the tiger trout that we never made it. We saw a large school of them, down 25 feet, near the end of the day. Asked one guy, who had been fishing for kokanee with downriggers, how he was doing, and he said he had been fishing for them all morning without a bite.

It was a beautiful day and great to get out with Kory again.
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[1sthound]

Thanks for the report. Been wanting to head up there lately. Did you cast net or trap the minnows?
Also is the ramp still pretty good to use or is low water
getting close to shutting it down?

Thanks
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[Kent]

We caught the minnows both using a casting net and also using a minnow trap. Not sure how much lower the water can get before launching from the ramp is a problem, but the ramp extends out of the water a long ways.
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