Idaho Fish Report

On May 27, aquatics biologist Nathan Owens reported slow fishing. The catch rate was better for the shoreline anglers who were using chub meat than for the boat anglers who were trolling with Rapalas. On May 24, Tom Ogden fly fished the west shoreline with crystal bugger and leech patterns. He had eight chubs in two hours, but no trout. Shoreline anglers were likewise catching chubs, but no trout. A week earlier, Melissa Anderson of Mount Pleasant caught a 17.75-pound, 33-inch tiger trout while trolling with popgear and bait. That fish was within 2.5 pounds of the state record. (That record-breaking fish was caught at Scofield in 2013 and weighed 19 pounds, two ounces.) Before Memorial Day, the reservoir was stocked with 73,000 9-inch cutthroat trout.