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Fishing Report 04-20-2018

4/20/2018

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Warm weather is here! We are starting to get some open water now.
Smith Lake
Open water. Hearing reports of Pike mostly. Use your smelt or spinnerbaits.

Thompson Chain

All lakes are ice free. We haven’t heard any reports yet.

Loon Lake
Open water. No reports yet.
​Loon / Horseshoe Lake (Ferndale)
Lakes are open. Catching a few Rainbows in Loon. Try Horseshoe for Smallmouth.

Echo Lake
Still a bit of ice out on the lake. However warm weather should be taking care of that quickly.

Bitterroot Lake
Still frozen over. But I wouldn’t trust the ice at this point.

Ashley Lake
Still frozen. Haven’t heard any reports on the ice conditions recently.

Flathead Lake
East Bay
Perch fishing is excellent. Try for the East end of the bay. Use Pete’s Crappie Candy, Gitzits or small Twister Tails tipped with worms. Don’t forget the limit on Perch. 10 fish over 10”. Unlimited under 10”. They are checking, so don’t forget your measure tape.

North End
Excellent fishing for Lake Trout in the Delta area, 15’-30’ of water. Also seeing them at 60-80’ in the deeper depth. Use Pete’s Whitefish Slayers or Zimmer Rattle D’zastors. West Shore to Painted Rocks still good. Jigging and Trolling 150’-180’. Boat launches are open at West Shore, Sommers Bay, Wayfarers, Yellow Bay, Blue Bay, Elmo and Big Arm.

Flathead River (Upper Section & North Fork)
Fishing well for Cutthroats & Mountain Whitefish. Try small nymphs, streamers and San Juan worms.

Flathead River Sloughs
All Open – Church, Fennon, Halfmoon, and Rose Creek. All ice free, might be a bit tough to get in to with the lower water, but they are all starting to fish for Bass, Pike and Crappie.

Koocanusa
The Trout are starting to pick up, but the water is very low. Try the launch at Peck Gulch or near the dam. Troll your Rapalas or Flies off planar boards. 
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Jorn e Lindberg link
5/1/2018 10:24:59 am

who won tourny at echo? how many pounds? reports on lake mary ronan?

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Jon - Snappy's link
5/1/2018 12:25:03 pm

Hey Jorn,
Troy and Josh won the Echo tourney with 20.83lbs of Large Mouth Bass. We just got word that LMR opened up last week (04/26). However no reports of fishing as of yet. Hope this helps.

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Rick Carroll link
5/19/2018 04:58:01 am

Really informative report.thank you for sharing this, its helpful and always appreciated.

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Jon - Snappy's link
5/20/2018 09:23:47 am

Rick,
It is our pleasure. We love sharing our local knowledge and tips to help our customer enjoy the beautiful area we live in. I know that our fishing guys, Chancy, Ross and Steve love to fish and love to share that. We will be posting a new one shortly.

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