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A Muddy Day at Sandy Wool Lake

22 Dec 2024

I saw online that there was a trout plant this week at Sandy Wool Lake, so I decided to make the drive out this morning. Unfortunately seems like the website was incorrect and the last stock was December 6. Nevertheless, I fished around the lake a bit, and eventually I managed a nice trout off the side of the big hill on a chartreuse and orange micetail, casted out as far as I could into the middle of the lake. Other than that, seems like nobody else caught any fish except a couple of the egrets. They nabbed a couple tiny trout when I was there right off the shore, so I guess there are still a couple of trout left.

The water is really muddy right now. Hopefully with a little bit less rain things will clear up by the next plant.

A Couple Trout at Quarry Lakes

21 Dec 2024

Went out with a friend to Quarry Lakes today, and fished a couple spots all around the lake. For the most part seems like lures weren’t producing, but we did ok on micetails — we managed 7 trout between the two of us (3 lassens, 4 DFGs), and we lost 3 more. All of the fish were on chartreuse and orange micetails, casted out as far as we could. As always, Quarry was pretty location dependent — had to find a spot with fish.

The lake was pretty busy, and I imagine more people will be coming in with the holiday. Hope they plant a lot of trout!