2012 Arrowrock Fishing Thread

[JTM]

Had a nice haul on 7/3 straight out from the boat launch. Started around 830 AM and finished up with 10 fish by 1 PM. Not too shabby!

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That is A very nice fish!! Good job...

[Allyn S]

Fished on Independence Day solo and caught a limit. Dropped the first line down around 0630. Action was crazy fast until the light hit the water. By 0730 I had three in the boat and had lost three. Mostly lost them because I was to busy trying to get another line in the water and had a first rate cluster going on. Should have just ran with it and focused on fishing one rod well.

Once the light hit the water things slowed way down. Couldn't buy a bite after 0930. Finally changed a few things up and finished out at 1130. The key switch after the light was up high was a UV pink spatter back hoochie.



Fished today (Sat.) with my son. Didn't have a real hot bite early like Wed. but once the light hit the water it picked up and was steady. Had 8 by 0930. Then it slowed down a bunch. Picked up two more by 1100. Then nothing for a while finally finished out at 1330. Best lure/dodger combo was silver dodger with orange hoocie. Outfished the pink 2:1.

Still catching them at 25'. Went down to 35' for awhile with no luck (this was in the dead spell where we couldn't buy a bite).

Both Wed. and today, caught some that had the first signs of pink showing on the caudal fin and base of the tail. Also caught a couple males that had the hook starting to grow a little. Still plenty of time for fishing, but they are starting to head towards maturing.

Between the two trips (three limits), 1/2 were the 17-18" fish, 1/4 in the 15-16" range and 1/4 in the 12-15" range. Didn't go above the junction of the South Fork and Middle Fork arms. The squawfish weren't to bad down lower in the reservoir. Only caught 6 in the two trips combined.

They are dropping the water pretty fast now. Probably about 2' a day. Some of the humps near the south fork are getting up there. Was cruising along fishing at 25' and not really paying to much attention to the depth finder when I glance at it and we are in 35' and shrinking. In another week I would probaby have been making a donation to the collection and marking my GPS to come back in the fall. Anways, hope this helps someone. Have fun.

[Lunddude]

[spoons]

Went out on the morning of the 30th. I thought I was going the extrat mile by getting up at the crack of dawn, after a "big evening" Friday night. I should have left Boise about an hour before daylight. I had some rookies wiht me from out of town, put on about 8am. Ate dust all the way to the ramp and had to park about 200 yards down the road... at 8 am...
It looked like salmon season at arrowrock res.
They seemed to be moving a little higher in the water.
Fishing was pretty slow that weekend for me. Ended up getting 4 in the boat, lost about a dozen more. 4 NPMinows. Hooked all the kokes equally on pop gear and widding rings and dogers with hoochies. Big delicious fish!

[dedub]

Good report, thanks for the detail!

[sawtooth]

Took a buddy to fish Arrowrock on Thursday. Picked up ten nice kokes most being 17-17.5" in length. Air quality was amazingly good considering that you couldn't see across lucky peak, because of the smoke early in the morning. Got to the lake around 7 am and fished until 12:30. Water temp went from 71 degrees in the morning to 77 degrees mid-day. Fish are still in pretty good condition, but some were starting to show just a hint of color around their fins and scales are become a little tougher to take off of some. Fillets are still looking good though. Fish all fought like crazy. You could tell instantly if you had a koke on or one of those pesky squawfish.

[Lunddude]

[tuff7474]

Just one yesterday but she was a biggin with some eggs!

[H82Miss]

My daughter and I went out with Duckpoppper on 7/18 and had a great time. The fishing was a bit slow but my 8 y/o daughter caught her first Kokanee and ended up with her first limit. We started around 0730 and ended around 1430. The last 3 we caught were absolute pigs, > 18"



We ended the day with 9 kokes, (6 for my daughter, 3 for Duckpopper, I was the net man and taking pics), 1 small rainbow, and 2 pikeminnows. It was hot but the occasional breeze made it tolerable. A fun day for sure and now my daughter is hooked on Kokanee fishing too!

[Physion]

I'm thinking about taking my granddaughter to AR on Monday. I have a small boat and motor, and once I commit to a part of a big body of water, there's not a lot of time to explore another part if I strike out on the first choice. I only get to take her once or twice a year, so I'd like for it to be a good trip. Thanks for any info you feel comfortable about passing along.

[gdub]

Went to AR yesterday, put in around 6am fished until 130, threw about everything out there, and dephts of 20 to 50 feet. 2 small ones about 12 inches one big one got away and about 12 squaws. Has it been this slow for everybody? The fish I did pick up were on orange hoochi and organge dodger, the squaws hit everything

[Ken Jones]

The biggest koke was 14 inches. We boated 10 fish. BOATED 20 squawfish The fish were the` same size that I have been catching in Anderson Ranch. Seen them fighting fire above Spring Shores on Ridge. And Helicopters getting water out of Lucky Peak. may go two Anderson again this week or Arrowrock.

[Allyn S]

Fished Sat. for 5 hrs in the morning. Fished out from the boat dock at first and caught a couple of next years fish.

Moved up to the South Fork arm and caught a couple of this years fish. They are showing more signs of turning. Didn't go up the South Fork arm real far as it was getting hot and the kids wanted to swim and then the wife had her share of fun and wanted to get out of the heat.

I think that the fish have moved and are staging to spawn. Big dropoff on the numbers of fish marked in the areas they have been all summer and also a big dropoff in the number of folks chasing them up there. That tells me something as it has been getting fished hard all summer and bam the first weekend I go and don't do well, the number of folks fishing is also about 1/4 what it was.

I wanted to run up to the mouth of the river and see what was going on up there but wasn't able to. Left before the fire started so didn't get caught up in that mess. Might hit Anderson this week, but have been waiting to hear of any kind of consistency up there. Seems like it has been off and sporadic up there all season. Maybe I will just have to accept that I am gonna have to catch up on all the work I have put off chasing Kokes all summer.

[JTM]

I was up there on the 20th, put in at 6:30 fished till noon got to hot. Boated 5 with the biggest 16" They are starting to turn mine all had a twinge of orange starting. I fished across from the launch and just down to the left, Tryed 15, 20, 25 and 30 that was the magic number all were at 30 1 on chrome the rest on pink. 4 squaws also.

[Physion]

Taking my daughter-in-law and granddaughter tomorrow. Really want them to catch a few fish. Trying to decide between LP and AR. Has anyone fished AR in the last week or so? What area? Any good?

[bayhorse]

Went up on saturday with my 9 year old. Lots of dead stocker trout on the shore at the boat ramp. Fished off and on from 9:00 to 2:00 finally found one lonely kokanee just before leaving. Hope you did better!

[Physion]

Decided to go to LP. Caught 6 kokanee and 2 rainbow. See the LP forum.