Wickup Report 7/9

[Fallriverguy]

It has been a month since I last fished Wickiup. What is amazing is the amount of water still in the reservoir. Let’s hope it is a good sign for next year’s fish. The surface water temp was 64 in the morning a 68 when I left at 4 pm.

This was my chance to pre-fish before the derby. The fish have started to school and move into deeper water more typical of a summer pattern. I had one combination that worked all day and accounted for the majority of fish. That one lure stayed on all day while I experimented with other set-ups. It was almost comical how the fish were keyed into that one set-up. Lots of fish showed early then moved down throughout the day.

There was lots of action all day. It was a good thing as I only landed about 50% of my hook ups. This year my hook to land ratio has been poor. I sharpened my hooks but still had trouble keeping fish hooked. Using different hooks may be what I need to try.

None of the fish I landed went over 14 inches. But boy have they been on the feed and fattening up nicely. The fish are thick.

I had two bonus catches as well. I finally landed a Wickiup rainbow. It was a plump 18” fish that was very scrappy. A 28” brown was also landed. That is my biggest brown caught at Wickuip. I measured the length in my live well then released it.

I hope the fishing stays this good for the derby.


Wickiup Board meeting

 

[mrmike]

Thank you for the report/Fallriverguy nicely done I. I would figure the fish to be bigger in length I was worried about water temp being to high and putting them fish off the bite it being a shallow lake. I just came back from Diamond Lake that another shallow lake I had 61 degrees water. I'm looking forward to the Wickiup Tournament.

 

[SilverBullets]

awesomereport Great report FRG!! Nice to see the action heating up...good luck at the derby! You mentioned your hook-ups being different this year. What I noticed the other day up at Paulina was the amount of fish that were lip hooked on the trailing hook. Most of my fish up there over the years have been hooked on the first hook with the trailer sometimes digging in on the outside, but I've never seen that many in one day hooked just on the trailer. It made for easy releases (alot just fell off the hook in the net) but was kinda strange.

 

[mrmike]

For the problem with the fish biting short it was easy I just added 5 ft to my net. Ha

 

[bertschb]

FRG-

What part of the lake were you finding the fish?

 

[Fallriverguy]

Anywhere from the boat ramp at North Wickiup to where the David and Deschutes channels meet as long as I was in the channel.

 

[bertschb]

That's where I was finding them too. I just didn't find as many as you did!

 

[kokaneekid]

Nice looking fish.... and excellent report... I guess maybe I'll have to crowd you on derby day...

Fish on kokaneekid

 

[bertschb]

FRG-

You are correct that the fish are fatter now. They have half again the body mass as the fish we've been catching at Paulina the last few weeks. Only 2"-3" longer but much fatter.