East Lake 7/27/2012

[bertschb]

Hit East Lake today. We caught eight that ranged from 12"-14". Quite a bit larger than the ones we've been catching at Paulina. Water temp was 64 degrees. We tried silver and purple Apex. Caught a couple on the purple Apex then nothing. Tried a couple hoochies (glow and pink) - nothing. Then I switched to a lure I haven't tried yet - a purple hoochie with a spinner on front. Don't recall the name. Caught a couple on that so switched the other pole to a pink version of the same lure and caught a couple on that one too. We lost way more than normal. Lost a couple at the boat and a few more while reeling in. We normally net 80-90% of the fish we hook. Today it was maybe 50%. I'm glad I found a new lure that works for me.

Oh, a couple of the fish were starting to turn color and lose their scales. Seems pretty early for that. One was getting the beginnings of a hooked jaw. All had very red meat. They are in the brine as I write this waiting for the Traeger tomorrow

 

[skyhammer]

I camped at Paulina and mostly fished East Lake for the last two weeks, left for home friday morning.
With the better weather this last week, the trolling really picked up, not hot, but two limits each day.
I used RMT watermelon and pick Bahama dogers with matching Apex, fished at 40' OTW, about 50/50 on each color. Very few boats on the water during the week.
At both Paulina and East, I couldn't hardly buy a bite on the schooled fish near the White Slide. I went out into more open water between the white slide and the rock cliffs. Marked fewer fish, but they did bite and were bigger than the schooled fish.
I didn't have a problem losing fish, only lost a few. We caught about 130 fish in 10 days, some rainbows and one atlantic and a very nice 28" brown as I was making the turn near the first rock cliff. Quite the battle on koke gear.
Some of the fish from both lakes lost a lot of scales in the net, didn't notice any of the fish getting red or hooked nose yet.