Smaller trout seem to be responding very well to leech patterns just about everywhere on the lake. With cooling weather larger trout should soon become more active.
Action is picking up on the lake for those using leech patterns. Most of the action is from smaller fish, but the current weather is just the ticket to get the big trout into action.
Again, we do not have much information on the lake except that fishing is beginning to pick up at a few spots. Cooler weather will bring fish towards shallow water, but we need a good unsettled downturn or two to do so.
We have not heard much about fishing here. But what we have heard indicates that fishing success seems fair at best. Cooler weather with stormy periods should help.
This cool weather has help action pick up all around the lake. Leech patterns seem most effective. Black or olive leech patterns are working. So are Halloweens and California leeches. Present all these using intermediate lines.
The east side creek mouths are producing brook trout. Try small olive or black leech patterns. Get out in the lake and present these on an intermediate line back towards the confluence.
We have some reports that using small leech patterns presented on an intermediate line is interesting smaller fish on Henry’s Lake. Try the creek mouths (Targhee, Hope, Duck, etc). Get to these locations as early as possible, and as usual, expect company to move in.
Spotty fishing at best. Black leeches presented near bottom seem to work. We have heard more about the recent winds that whip the surface into near impossible conditions. Let’s hope that winds calm down and that a remnant of the once famed damsel fly emergence improves the fishing.
Fishing activity has slowed considerably since the fabulous opening day. Maybe with unsettled weather predicted for the end of the week it will pick up. Who knows!
