Woodcock outflow!

Anyone trying the outflow yet o is it a little early?

Haven't been there in a couple weeks,  brought some walleye home.

Not sure of winter trout rules, have seen the "man" several times while fishing in the winter no issues.  It is an approved trout waters and is closed to fishing in March.

Is there anyone on here that has ice fished the dam its self? I want to try it and was wondering if there are a good amount of walleyes in the dam. 

Anyone do any good in the past week? For anything?

Fished the outflow on Monday afternoon. There is just always so many people down there, I hope they realize that they don't all have to fish the wall to catch fish. I caught 4 walleye, the biggest was just 12". Light bite and lot's of litter in the creek. I did manage to hook a old boot with bait containers stuffed in it.I didn't understand it either. People, there is a garbage can right next to the wall ! Anyway, creek has a slow flow to it right now, I assume do they don't fluctuate the lake level too much for the ice nuts. Most of my luck has come further down the creek past the foot bridge. The last week or so I have only seen people bring up dinks. Saw one guy catch a small pellethead which surprised me being that close to the dam. Caught a coupe nice eyes there a couple months ago (21" & 24") but returned them to the creek unharmed. With the pressure that place get's and everyone taking 15-18" eyes home, catch and release is the only way I see to get it back to a decent fishery (MHO). It's a shame, I used to be able to go down there and get some nice fish but now they are so far and few between. I'll wait a month or so before I hit it again or wait until they up the legal size to 22" (just kidding).  

Trust me, I take home my fair share of fish. Nothing better than fresh fish ! I spend a lot of time on Woodcock and the outflow and consider it my home water. Like everywhere else, the good fishing comes in cycles. 12" fish today could equal 25" fish in a few years. If I didn't fish there 2-3 times a week I would probably not have an issue with myself keeping any fish, but I am more interested in being part of preserving my home waters. With the economy going down and job's going away, we will just have to all get used to seeing people carrying away stringers of fish. You got to eat somehow ! As far as the lake goes, PFBC does a great job in restocking fingerlings that have a pretty good chance of survival. Man is there going to be some hogs in a few years especially since it can be a little bit of a tougher place to fish at times. However, the outflow does not get stocked with walleye or musky so what's in there is all that there is. It can be looked at both ways. Why would they stock Musky or walleye in a stream that regularly gets stocked with pelletheads ? I assume that the walleye in the outflow have come originally from the main lake ????? Of course it might be best that the walleye population in the outflow is more of a "take" fishery. However it's looked at, I just enjoy catching fish - even if they are only dinks ! Does anyone know if walleye (specifically) have any impact on the pellethead population as far as part of their food chain, or do the walleye in the outflow rely on other bait fish for food ??????  I have caught hundreds of 8-12" walleye all through Woodcock creek (more downstream) in the past years and wonder why I never see any better size fish in the stream ? Would have thought I would at least see the size of them improving from year to year. Must just not be that good of an environment for them ?????

only small eyes come though the dam. the legal size eyes come from french creek and french creek is frozen thats y there very little fish there

has anyone fished woodcock where it dumps into french creek if so has anyone done any good and what time of year was it