Idaho Fish Report

Open year-round. Redband trout are moving around with many returning to the main lake and some moving up the Wood River to stage for spawning. Agency Lake is terrible to fish in the wind and even harder to launch/trailer your boat at Henzel Park. Launching at Petric Park is another option.

The channel at Petric is full of aquatic vegetation making boat travel difficult. Due to abundant aquatic vegetation at the mouth area of Wood River casting lures or flies is the best method for catching redband trout. Trolling will result in snagging vegetation. Vegetation is getting worse as lake level declines rapidly. Fishing just outside the vegetation line on the south end of the Wood River mouth is best. However, covering lots of water elsewhere in the lake might be worth some effort.

Overall fishing is slow. Some trophy redband trout are being caught.

Catch rates remain low due to record setting drought in the years 2020 thru 2022 resulting in poor survival of juvenile redband trout and subsequent recruitment into the adult population.

Agency Lake regulations are catch-and-release for redband/rainbow trout with no bait allowed (artificial flies and lures only). The boundary of Agency Lake is the south end of the Straits. This change is due to record low spawning escapement for trophy redband trout throughout the Klamath Basin in 2020. ODFW also encourages the use of single barbless hooks in this fishery, not removing the fish from the water, and using catch-and-release rubber nets.

Keep on the lookout for radio tagged redband trout. These fish must be released unharmed. The long antenna looks like fishing line coming from the abdomen. Please report any radio tagged fish.