TheKnigit
Active member
We made a trip to Lemolo this last weekend. My brother, a buddy, and I all had High Cascade Deer tags, and Lemolo is conveniently right next to one of our favorite hunting areas. We ended up not hunting all that much and spending most of our time on the lake. We ended up with 6 trout, 1 brown and 5 rainbows. Surprisingly the brown was our smallest fish at 11". The rainbows were all right around 15", fat, and put up a pretty decent fight. We had about that same amount that never made it to the boat.
Lemolo continues to confuse me. We have been making at least 1 trip a year there, for the past 3 or 4 years, and I don't think I have had the same thing work two times in a row. The first night we were just testing the waters trolling. We had one rod with a flasher setup, one with a rooster tail, one running a fly on top, and I sat up in the bow and cast my fly rod towards the bank. The only pole to get fish was the fly trolling an orange buck-hair caddis fly. I did miss a nice strike on my fly rod running a slim woolly bugger, much to my dismay. The next day we were having some motor issues and we decided to simply drift with the lake's current with split shot and worms. That worked like a charm once we had drifted over to the east end of the lake. I got the motor running and we went out trolling again in the evening and it was slow.
On the way home my son and I stopped off at Stump Lake, which is a place I have always threatened that I was going to stop and fish. It was a nice scenic pit stop without even a sniff of a fish.
Lemolo continues to confuse me. We have been making at least 1 trip a year there, for the past 3 or 4 years, and I don't think I have had the same thing work two times in a row. The first night we were just testing the waters trolling. We had one rod with a flasher setup, one with a rooster tail, one running a fly on top, and I sat up in the bow and cast my fly rod towards the bank. The only pole to get fish was the fly trolling an orange buck-hair caddis fly. I did miss a nice strike on my fly rod running a slim woolly bugger, much to my dismay. The next day we were having some motor issues and we decided to simply drift with the lake's current with split shot and worms. That worked like a charm once we had drifted over to the east end of the lake. I got the motor running and we went out trolling again in the evening and it was slow.
On the way home my son and I stopped off at Stump Lake, which is a place I have always threatened that I was going to stop and fish. It was a nice scenic pit stop without even a sniff of a fish.
