2012 Arrowrock Fishing Thread

[gdub]

Went to AR yesterday, put in around 6am fished until 130, threw about everything out there, and dephts of 20 to 50 feet. 2 small ones about 12 inches one big one got away and about 12 squaws. Has it been this slow for everybody? The fish I did pick up were on orange hoochi and organge dodger, the squaws hit everything

 

[Ken Jones]

07/22/22012

The biggest koke was 14 inches. We boated 10 fish. BOATED 20 squawfish The fish were the` same size that I have been catching in Anderson Ranch. Seen them fighting fire above Spring Shores on Ridge. And Helicopters getting water out of Lucky Peak. may go two Anderson again this week or Arrowrock.

 

[Allyn S]

Fished Sat. for 5 hrs in the morning. Fished out from the boat dock at first and caught a couple of next years fish.

Moved up to the South Fork arm and caught a couple of this years fish. They are showing more signs of turning. Didn't go up the South Fork arm real far as it was getting hot and the kids wanted to swim and then the wife had her share of fun and wanted to get out of the heat.

I think that the fish have moved and are staging to spawn. Big dropoff on the numbers of fish marked in the areas they have been all summer and also a big dropoff in the number of folks chasing them up there. That tells me something as it has been getting fished hard all summer and bam the first weekend I go and don't do well, the number of folks fishing is also about 1/4 what it was.

I wanted to run up to the mouth of the river and see what was going on up there but wasn't able to. Left before the fire started so didn't get caught up in that mess. Might hit Anderson this week, but have been waiting to hear of any kind of consistency up there. Seems like it has been off and sporadic up there all season. Maybe I will just have to accept that I am gonna have to catch up on all the work I have put off chasing Kokes all summer.

 

[JTM]

I was up there on the 20th, put in at 6:30 fished till noon got to hot. Boated 5 with the biggest 16" They are starting to turn mine all had a twinge of orange starting. I fished across from the launch and just down to the left, Tryed 15, 20, 25 and 30 that was the magic number all were at 30 1 on chrome the rest on pink. 4 squaws also.

 

[Physion]

Taking my daughter-in-law and granddaughter tomorrow. Really want them to catch a few fish. Trying to decide between LP and AR. Has anyone fished AR in the last week or so? What area? Any good?

 

[bayhorse]

Went up on saturday with my 9 year old. Lots of dead stocker trout on the shore at the boat ramp. Fished off and on from 9:00 to 2:00 finally found one lonely kokanee just before leaving. Hope you did better!

 

[Physion]

Decided to go to LP. Caught 6 kokanee and 2 rainbow. See the LP forum.