Yes, Curlew is on the upper end of the lake on the east side.
2013 Anderson Ranch Fishing Thread
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Yes, Curlew is on the upper end of the lake on the east side.
Might want to hold off until the end of July to give them little guys a chance to grow some.
Not sure they are going to grow much bigger than they are now due to the population of the fish there.
Anyone been up here in awhile? If work allows I was gonna head up this week/weekend for 2-3 days and see if I can get a cooler full of these little ones for canning. If you have been up there recently or are familiar with the kokes in Anderson what would be a good starting depth for the DR this time of year? If I make it will report back what I find. Thanks in advance for any replies PM or on the board.
I was there the 4th of jul weekend, used pink kokabow on both rods fished one DR at 20 and the other at 25, they hit at both depths, have fun, in an hour we caught 15, we got a little tired of messing with the DRs for just little ones, but it was still fun. Good luck.
Went Fri. evening and Sat. morning. Was trying to fill the cooler with the dinks and test skinning them and then canning. Left about noon with 50 on Sat. due to boredom, heat, and the invasion of ski boats form Mtn. Home.
The skinning the dinks worked well. Tried a couple without gutting first but the pectoral fins would snag and it wouldn't want to peel. If you gutted them first it worked pretty good. The colder they were the better they skinned, if they got warm while you were cleaning them the meat would stick to the skin and want to tear. Looked like little sardines when done. The 50 fish all in a pile when cleaned equaled about as much meat as the limit we got from Lucky Peak on Sun.
The little SOB's were kinda picky, only got bites on spinners behind gold cowbells. Fished from the surface down to 20' and got bites at all those depths. Best was around 20'. The gang trolls hid their light bites so it got frustrating and there was 0 fight so that frustration turned to boredom.
Of the bites we got we hooked up on about 1/2, and of the hookups we boated about 1/2 so we were getting about 1/4 of the bites into the boat. They were so small they were hard to keep on no matter how careful you were. We were getting enough hits that I think we could have limited if we stayed and came back with 150 in possession (three person possesion limit) but it wasn't fun and I didn't want to stick around to see if we could. Had more fun on Lucky Peak Sun. were we limited in 3 1/2 hours for three folks and had as much meat in the fridge as we did from Anderson. Nothing ventured nothing gained, but we won't be going back.
That said if you are next to a lake full of stunted kokes and you don't know what to do with them because they are to small for traditional cleaning methods, try skinning, cubing, and canning. It worked pretty slick, I cleaned and skinned the 50 fish in about 40 min. solo. wouldn't take much time at all to do a bunch if you had a couple of hands helping.
Just to throw in, the biggest fish we caught was a skinny 11" (we got 2 that size), the average was 9" and the small was 7.5" (thank god not to many of them).
The skinning the dinks worked well. Tried a couple without gutting first but the pectoral fins would snag and it wouldn't want to peel. If you gutted them first it worked pretty good. The colder they were the better they skinned, if they got warm while you were cleaning them the meat would stick to the skin and want to tear. Looked like little sardines when done. The 50 fish all in a pile when cleaned equaled about as much meat as the limit we got from Lucky Peak on Sun.
The little SOB's were kinda picky, only got bites on spinners behind gold cowbells. Fished from the surface down to 20' and got bites at all those depths. Best was around 20'. The gang trolls hid their light bites so it got frustrating and there was 0 fight so that frustration turned to boredom.
Of the bites we got we hooked up on about 1/2, and of the hookups we boated about 1/2 so we were getting about 1/4 of the bites into the boat. They were so small they were hard to keep on no matter how careful you were. We were getting enough hits that I think we could have limited if we stayed and came back with 150 in possession (three person possesion limit) but it wasn't fun and I didn't want to stick around to see if we could. Had more fun on Lucky Peak Sun. were we limited in 3 1/2 hours for three folks and had as much meat in the fridge as we did from Anderson. Nothing ventured nothing gained, but we won't be going back.
That said if you are next to a lake full of stunted kokes and you don't know what to do with them because they are to small for traditional cleaning methods, try skinning, cubing, and canning. It worked pretty slick, I cleaned and skinned the 50 fish in about 40 min. solo. wouldn't take much time at all to do a bunch if you had a couple of hands helping.
Just to throw in, the biggest fish we caught was a skinny 11" (we got 2 that size), the average was 9" and the small was 7.5" (thank god not to many of them).
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