What's Catching You Fish?

[Billy]

Slow drag shallow:

 

[CanoeGuy]

The fly @Scudley Do Right posted the other day. Saw it Friday night, tied a slight variation of it with a much uglier head yesterday morning and had it wet a couple hours later. 20+ inch bow dragging my SUP around the lake to show for it. Thank you sir!

 

[Northern]

My go-to wiggle bug added another species to its list in a pretty nonstandard way last week: another mystery chinook from a certain Basin lake



Same fly also accounted for a nice crappie, same lake

 

[Northern]

Also, same lake as above, a simple black marabou leech on a floating line tempted a surface-cruising carp into a grab.
My first intentional, fair-hooked capr!

 

[Snopro]

Excellent crappie. You never know where those things will show up.

 

[Pink Nighty]

My go-to wiggle bug added another species to its list in a pretty nonstandard way last week: another mystery chinook from a certain Basin lake
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Same fly also accounted for a nice crappie, same lake
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Ok why is all the hot nookie fishing in lakes in central wa? This is the darkest timeline

 

[troutpocket]

Central WA has unusual plumbing. The big water projects connect stuff that you wouldn’t generally think about.

 

[Northern]

Ok why is all the hot nookie fishing in lakes in central wa? This is the darkest timeline

There was actually a second, smaller one that day, too! (I switched to a hand-painted & tied crappie jig after that crappie and got this guy instead)

Dark tongue!

It was an odd day!

 

[RRSmith]

Does Washington stock surplus chinook fingerlings in freshwater lakes/reservoirs?

 

[troutpocket]

Does Washington stock surplus chinook fingerlings in freshwater lakes/reservoirs?

At times, yes. Banks Lake has received some in the past.

 

[Buzzy]

There was actually a second, smaller one that day, too! (I switched to a hand-painted & tied crappie jig after that crappie and got this guy instead)
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Dark tongue!
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It was an odd day!

My wife and I drove down there today to scope things out. It looks easy to launch my pram but I didn't realize just how big that lake is......

Does Washington stock surplus chinook fingerlings in freshwater lakes/reservoirs?

"Surplus"? I think someone mentioned that WDFW did, once upon a time, release some juvenile Chinook into Rocky Ford Creek and like @troutpocket says, Central WA has some interesting plumbing. I'm convinced* these Chinook ascend the stream that drains the lake which enters the Columbia between Wanapum and Priest Rapids dams.


* Wild guess on my part.

 

[RRSmith]

"Surplus"? I think someone mentioned that WDFW did, once upon a time, release some juvenile Chinook into Rocky Ford Creek and like @troutpocket says, Central WA has some interesting plumbing. I'm convinced* these Chinook ascend the stream that drains the lake which enters the Columbia between Wanapum and Priest Rapids dams.

California and to a lesser extent, Oregon have programs where chinook fingerlings surplus to their anadromous program alotments are planted in various lakes and reservoirs.

 

[SurfnFish]

first day in months beetles weren't doing it, so had to go to the Dark Side, blow the dust off the intermediate line rod and start stripping hothead leeches...always surprised by the color variation in fish caught in the same seam

 

[SculpinSwinger]

California and to a lesser extent, Oregon have programs where chinook fingerlings surplus to their anadromous program alotments are planted in various lakes and reservoirs.

Hills Creek reservoir outside of Oakridge is stocked with chinook fingerlings annually for a put and take fishery.

 

[Pink Nighty]

Central WA has unusual plumbing. The big water projects connect stuff that you wouldn’t generally think about.

Like, sure. I get that. I've lived in eastern wa, and I understand basalt cracks and whatnot.

This is the 3rd pnwff verified nook in a basin lake. Has anyone seen anything like this before?

 

[Pink Nighty]

Like, sure. I get that. I've lived in eastern wa, and I understand basalt cracks and whatnot.

This is the 3rd pnwff verified nook in a basin lake. Has anyone seen anything like this before?

I gotta edit cuz @Northern stuck 2.... 4 basin lake fly caught nook. River fishers may be more tight lipped, but that's as many as I've seen all summer in total. And it's from a lake. By Othello or whatever. Or maybe Beverly, and possibly fucking Ephrata.

There is a disturbance is all I'm saying

 

[troutpocket]

There is a disturbance is all I'm saying

No argument from me. . . as one of the very surprised catchers of a big Chinook that did not belong in the surroundings.