Fish Reports

Murky water has made fishing tough, though anglers have found good fishing for bass and crappie throughout the day with jigs and Woolly Buggers. Trout prefer hitting PowerBait and night crawlers in the early morning hours or late in the evening. Temperatures are reaching into the 80s during the day and dropping into the 50s at night.

Largemouth bass are hitting crayfish imitations, worms and grubs in darker colors. Green or root beer color tube baits, small jigs and nightcrawler pieces are bringing in crappie. Anglers are having better success later in the morning, but the action slows during the afternoon heat. Fishing picks up again after the heat subsides and shadows return to the water. 

Anglers are reporting good fishing for stripers from the dam south through Casino Row. The fish are averaging two pounds. Stripers and catfish also are being caught near Big Bend. Black bass are going for rattling jigs, while catfish are taking night crawlers and anchovies. Fishing has been best at sunrise and sunset.

Stripers are taking baits off the Willow Beach fishing pier. Anglers are finding success from the shoreline and boats with anchovies and jerkbaits. The lake is also producing channel catfish in and around coves. Crankbaits and plastics are taking largemouth and smallmouth bass.

Bluegill and catfish are the go-to fish at the urban ponds. Mealworms are fooling the bluegill, with the best bite taking place in the early morning or late afternoon. Anglers have had fair success for catfish in the evenings using stink baits. Due to seasonally high temperatures, catfish will not be stocked during the month of July.  NDOW reminds anglers that the limit at all

Anglers are catching a mixed bag of stripers and black bass on plastics and crankbaits. Surface fishing has been good for stripers pursuing shad. There have been some limits of crappie coming out of the Overton Arm.

 Our local angler Eli Davis was using a-long-a and landed a couple of stripers in the 1 pound range. Yep these lures usually produce a larger fish but this time of year we are getting a lot of the smaller striper getting to the bait first. We do have a good trout population also and our rainbow trout are being planted to help with the

Jiggs has been stocked with approximately 2300 trout, 300 of which are surplus brood stock averaging around 12 inches.  Anglers have been catching some blue gill and trout.  Best tactic for fly fishermen seems to be using a sink tip or intermediate sink line with a brown or black leech pattern.  A few bass are showing up in the creel, though they are still spawning

Not much has changed here as fishing continues to be good at the collection ditch for 13 to 16-inch trout with the occasional large trout being taken. Fishing seems to improve on rainy or windy days.  Wet flies have been performing better than the dries right now though there has been a Mayfly hatch on the warmer days.  These include the usual small nymphs such

The lake was spilling earlier this week, but its slowing down.  Algae is growing and the water is getting murkier. Surface water temperatures are in the mid 60’s.  Depending upon the day and the weather, fishing ranges from good to excellent for 15 to 18 inch fish with some 20+ inch fish every once in a while.   Shore anglers continue to do well by the

The reservoir is full!  NDOW and Barrick planted the reservoir with 5,000 five to six-inch catfish and 5,000 15-inch catfish on Friday, May 31. Expect the fishing for catfish to pick up as the water temperature starts to move above 60 degrees. Crappie from Chimney Creek Reservoir were stocked last week, but anglers are being asked to return any crappie they catch back to the

The spilling is starting to subside and NDOW plans to stock the lake in about a week.  The water going over the spillway will probably quit sometime in the next week or so.  The water is still fairly clear, but algae is starting to grow.  Fishing is good for 12 to 15-inch fish that are in good shape. The same presentations, flies, baits and lures

The road to Angel Lake is open but the lake is still mostly covered in unsafe ice.  It is going to be a week or two before you can fish here.  

Fishing is starting to pick up with several anglers reporting good fishing the past couple of weeks using flies, bait or spinners. Over the past few weeks SF has been stocked with approximately 55,000 rainbow trout. Fishing small PT’s, hares ears or chironomids under a strike indicator have all worked.  Snail patterns and black leeches with some red flash should also be effective.  Like most

Cave Lake is ice free and fishing for nine to 12 inch fish has been fair to good.  The lake has been stocked with approximately  8000 fish between 10 and 11 inches this spring. Most anglers are having luck with small worms, though PowerBait is also catching fish.  Fly rodders should be using small olive or black bead head crystal buggers, small olive wooly worms,

Fishing here is fair to good for 10 to 12-inch trout and fair for bass. The lake was stocked with 2,000 rainbow trout averaging 11 inches earlier this spring.   The usual worms, PowerBait, small spinners and flies should all work.   

Comins Lake continues to fish well with surface water temperatures in the mid 60’s.  Anglers are catching trout averaging 16 to 20 inches on a variety of tackle.  Panther Martins, spoons, PowerBait, salmon eggs, and night crawlers should all do well for the majority of bait fisherman.  Fly fisherman should use wooly buggers, leech patterns, and nymphs patterns (midges, beaded pheasant tails…etc.).  Comins was stocked

The reservoir is full and fishing has been good.  The water is clearing.  The usual springtime flies of wooly buggers, prince nymphs, hares ears and chironomid patterns should all work.  Small spinners, PowerBait and worms should be effective as well. Illipah was stocked with 7500 trout this spring.