Fishing Update 4/18/08
Fishing Update 4/18/08
Good news at last folks. Stone Lake seems to be turning on, with more of the typical spring fishing that folks have become accustomed to. By this I mean we are finally observing the shoreline cruisers displaying spawning behavior and aggressive strikes. As some of you know and others will learn, the Rainbows in Stone typically cycle through a pretend-a-spawn period during April and early May. As mentioned in the last report the visibility is getting better every day which makes for excellent sight fishing during this spawning period when the fish come in to the shorelines in search of good gravel substrate. The best locations to look for these cruisers are the north shoreline where there is a good viewing bluff that parallels the lake for approximately 150 yards, and on the east side (magaanii point) where there is decent substrate (especially in the high water) and adequate relief to view from. The news I have heard since the last report is positive but by no means incredible quit your job type of news. Several large fish have been caught this week that I know of , and possibly more that I haven’t heard of. On the fly fishing side, one gentleman in a float tube caught and released a 24 inch Rainbow on the west side of the lake in one of the coves. He was using a heavy cone head egg sucking leach pattern. Rosenburg Tafoya also did well today and yesterday with castmasters and the broken back rapalas with rainbow and orange/green coloration. He caught 8 fish in three hours total. One was 24” but slipped away before he could get a scale under it. Another was 21 ¾” and weighed in at 4.9 lbs. I will be updating the photo gallery early next week and will have some stats to report as well. I will see you at Stone Lake.
Kevin Terry
Fisheries Biologist
Good news at last folks. Stone Lake seems to be turning on, with more of the typical spring fishing that folks have become accustomed to. By this I mean we are finally observing the shoreline cruisers displaying spawning behavior and aggressive strikes. As some of you know and others will learn, the Rainbows in Stone typically cycle through a pretend-a-spawn period during April and early May. As mentioned in the last report the visibility is getting better every day which makes for excellent sight fishing during this spawning period when the fish come in to the shorelines in search of good gravel substrate. The best locations to look for these cruisers are the north shoreline where there is a good viewing bluff that parallels the lake for approximately 150 yards, and on the east side (magaanii point) where there is decent substrate (especially in the high water) and adequate relief to view from. The news I have heard since the last report is positive but by no means incredible quit your job type of news. Several large fish have been caught this week that I know of , and possibly more that I haven’t heard of. On the fly fishing side, one gentleman in a float tube caught and released a 24 inch Rainbow on the west side of the lake in one of the coves. He was using a heavy cone head egg sucking leach pattern. Rosenburg Tafoya also did well today and yesterday with castmasters and the broken back rapalas with rainbow and orange/green coloration. He caught 8 fish in three hours total. One was 24” but slipped away before he could get a scale under it. Another was 21 ¾” and weighed in at 4.9 lbs. I will be updating the photo gallery early next week and will have some stats to report as well. I will see you at Stone Lake.
Kevin Terry
Fisheries Biologist
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