Old406Kid
Legend
My guess is that it's still iced over. I may drive out in a couple of days and check.
Just over a month out...
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It is often iced over or mostly iced over on March 1, but often there is at least some open water at the launch. Since I live so far away, I don't know what Spokane's winter was like this year. The fishing to the right of the launch can be stellar before it starts weeding up a lot. Great memories! Let me know how it looks!
Old406Kid
Legend
I’m so bummed I wasn’t the one who caught the perch.
The question is was it kept and eaten? Or at least remove from the water permanently....
What a beautiful day Saturday was! Bright sun with a lite chop on the water. It's always a good time fishing with @Irafly and @troutpocket. Nothing like catching fish after fish all day and finishing a very distant 2nd place on the leader board. It can be a humbling sight watching those two easily put a hundred chunks in the net on the 1st. I didn't see half the boats out there catch a fish. On Sunday I couldn't stop laughing at two gear guys throwing what seemed to be buzz bomb sized lures closer and closer to my boat during a steady bite. Like the only place where the fish were biting was underneath me 
Definition of Ice out
Kings of the pond
@Shawn Seeger Unfortunatly I could bring myself to bonk this beauty without place to keep it fresh.
Most of the fish (80%) for me were hot chubby little 8-12" stockers with the rest 16"-21". I have to say they were super light biters. Had to be lazer focused or you missed it. Didn't see any 22"-24" Walters this year.
Hot fly for me was a simple pine squirl jig leach. Match the hatch.
Definition of Ice out
Kings of the pond
@Shawn Seeger Unfortunatly I could bring myself to bonk this beauty without place to keep it fresh.
Most of the fish (80%) for me were hot chubby little 8-12" stockers with the rest 16"-21". I have to say they were super light biters. Had to be lazer focused or you missed it. Didn't see any 22"-24" Walters this year.
Hot fly for me was a simple pine squirl jig leach. Match the hatch.
BlakeHerrington
Steelhead
Anyone happen to know if the gate at the Ancient Lakes trailhead (NE corner of this map. Not the lower TH) is locked or open?
It was locked in the fall, but I thought I recalled reading it was usually open in the spring.
It was locked in the fall, but I thought I recalled reading it was usually open in the spring.
Is the water ick because of tun over? I made 3 trips last spring and want some more, NO WIND tho.
Opens March 1st I believe so you can park by Evergreen and hike down
Yesterday a buddy of mine tried to fish the Giant Cataract lake but found the gate still closed and locked in Sun Lakes State Park. I wondered why so I drove up to the observation point:
Great water clarity below the observation point! But..........
The launch bay is still totally locked in with ice. The wind was howling, it was 53F outside. I can't imagine the launch bay ice staying on much longer.
No ice on Soap Lake. Alkali was chocolate milkshake colored.
Great water clarity below the observation point! But..........
The launch bay is still totally locked in with ice. The wind was howling, it was 53F outside. I can't imagine the launch bay ice staying on much longer.
No ice on Soap Lake. Alkali was chocolate milkshake colored.
Time to hike in!
When I moved to Ephrata in 1986 there was a trail down the rock slide (talus?) just north of the observation pinnacle, remnants are still visible. A coworker claimed he’d fish the lake at night for browns.
Yep, I remember that trail! Never used it though. My buddy & I fished in our original Caddis donuts (no pockets or back rests) back in the late 80s, early 90s. To this day, I've never had any other trout dive as fast and as deep as those rainbows did. They were incredible fish.
I haven't fished it for years. Might have to put it on the list!
Puget Sound Fly Fishers had a club outing to Dry Falls, it must have been 1983/84 (prior to our move to 98823 in March of '86). I was a real newbie to the world of fly fishing but got surprised a few times by hooking some fat and fiesty rainbows (in the bay that doesn't exist anymore). I had a Caddis donut float tube (with pockets and a motorcycle tube backrest). I don't like getting skunked when I go fishing (it happens) but at least I never tire of the views driving into and out of the lake and especially the scenery while on the lake.
It would make a hell of a bass pond
No more ditch pickle lakes needed