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Hey fellow fishheads,
I fished the Flaming Gorge for the first time last weekend. We caught a nice mixed bag of fish including lakers, kokes, and rainbows.
On Friday, the lake was dead calm and we started trolling downriggers in Linwood Bay for lakers. Picked up a few right off the bottom in 90-110' using Flatfish and Krockidile spoons. After the action died by early afternoon, we went back into the canyon coves got into some great rainbow action throwing spinners and spoons. Any cove with inlet flow held good numbers of biters. In particular, the Sheep Creek Bay inlet was a honey hole. We ran the bowmount as far up the inlet as far as we could go and nailed bows up to about 18".
On Saturday, heavy winds kept us off the main lake section, so we started trolling a spot in the canyon for lakers. I didn't mark any hooks down deep, just smaller ones 20-30' down. I figured they were bows or kokes, so we changed baits and caught a nice koke before deciding to move. We later jigged up some bows down near the dam before heading back to the coves. The bow action was great again and I caught a beauty at around 24" - a personal best.
We released all of our catch except one rainbow that was hooked in the gill and was going to die. He tasted great in the pan. My GPS showed that I ran 72 miles in two days. What a huge body of water!
I can't wait to go back there next spring/summer and get some more time to work for those belly hanger lakers.
I fished the Flaming Gorge for the first time last weekend. We caught a nice mixed bag of fish including lakers, kokes, and rainbows.
On Friday, the lake was dead calm and we started trolling downriggers in Linwood Bay for lakers. Picked up a few right off the bottom in 90-110' using Flatfish and Krockidile spoons. After the action died by early afternoon, we went back into the canyon coves got into some great rainbow action throwing spinners and spoons. Any cove with inlet flow held good numbers of biters. In particular, the Sheep Creek Bay inlet was a honey hole. We ran the bowmount as far up the inlet as far as we could go and nailed bows up to about 18".
On Saturday, heavy winds kept us off the main lake section, so we started trolling a spot in the canyon for lakers. I didn't mark any hooks down deep, just smaller ones 20-30' down. I figured they were bows or kokes, so we changed baits and caught a nice koke before deciding to move. We later jigged up some bows down near the dam before heading back to the coves. The bow action was great again and I caught a beauty at around 24" - a personal best.
We released all of our catch except one rainbow that was hooked in the gill and was going to die. He tasted great in the pan. My GPS showed that I ran 72 miles in two days. What a huge body of water!
I can't wait to go back there next spring/summer and get some more time to work for those belly hanger lakers.