Weekend Fishing

Went up for the 3 hour drive on Friday after work.
Went because of the tornado warning Thursday night and just wanted to check the trailer at camp.
(We had one touch down up there this summer only 1 mile up the road from Elk Access and tore the campground up a little)
Figured I would do a little fishing Friday Evening and Saturday Morning just to see how the creeks were looking.

My Report:
-Elk Creek still had a little too much color in them as of Friday EVE but good flow.
-Fish were up past the wood pile at the Access. Maybe up to Cascades.
-Lake was perfect for shore fishing and produced good.
-Camp was fine with a few branches laying around.
-Went out to Crooked Creek Lake Front instead of joining a few campground friends on a Walleye Trip Sat Morning.
-Maybe should of went for the Walleye??
-Caught Six at Crooked Lake Front with 10 or so hook-ups.
-Elk Creek was still colored as of leaving Sat Noon.
-Looked Like Rain coming in as I was leaving so creeks should rise again and sustain their color.
-One note for early season fishing- When it does not rain to a blow out level early in the season the color will stay up for a few days because of all of the silt it carries as a wash for the creek beds.
-With more rain washing the creeks down, the color will drop quicker as we get more rain.

Good luck to all this year..... If you see a maniac paddling past you in a Kayak when it is low and clear that's me..... Just try not to hook into me and pull me back in;-)

Frisco

Nice report. What was the bait of choice at the lake shore? Spoons?

Best bet is to get out early or in the evening...From the areas I fished today, the few hookups that did happen were in the morning. On a side note, the lower parking lot at the Elk access was JAM PACKED as well as trout run (laughed my @ss off when 2 duudes decided that they would jump in a little row boat and fish infront of everyone at the mouth)...but it was very suprising to see the number of people out this early in the year...not a ton of fish in either....just sayn.

fisher is right about the fish being in close. everyone gotta realize that wading out further just pushes the fish out to deeper water.

Fishing was very tough at Elk/Walnut this weekend.

Just sayin'.......or just whining?

ORIGINAL: wishfishin

While I know this too is an ongoing debate, and it is not my intention to high jack this thread, I don't think the early season crowds this year are surprising with all the attention early season fish have been given on this board.  I guess I'm in the camp that believes there is some information that is better not shared here.  That information can be found in other ways; it just takes a little more work.  And that additional work serves to regulate the numbers of people somewhat. 

seriously???
there has been no real info on here this year compared to other years
on;y 1 picture of mention of a fish caught... and it was buried deep in a joke thread

unlike last year...

Do tornadoes ever hit trailer parks????

Its ok to be a wimer, just not a weiner.lol

If you could handle the crowd the wall was the spot today...Seen alot of fish caught this AM

I saw a guy fishing under 79 on Sunday at the Mckean exit
 
 
least he had elbow room

ORIGINAL: KJH807


and probably had undisturbed fish...

 
 
 
this early?

ORIGINAL: bigtrout4x4

.....to our suprise they are farther than you think, ....
 

 
Not at all surprising as the water was up for a good two days.
At least a few people came to the realization that steelhead have this urge to swim upstream as it was about 11AM when I started to run into a few anglers.
 
 
 
 

bings with the skunk??  wow, thats the first i heard that word!!!   must have been rough