Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: Wiseguy on April 04, 2020, 04:57:18 PM
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Hello anglers. Wanting to self isolate and take a drive up to Jones Lake and go wet a line for some trout. Anybody been up there lately? Is it open? How’s the rd conditions? Thanks
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Buddy of mine was up there two days ago. He says no ice or snow but it did snow yesterday a bit and some this morning here in town. I personally wouldn't touch jones till mid April or May. The water is too cold. That's just my opinion tho.
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Buddy of mine was up there two days ago. He says no ice or snow but it did snow yesterday a bit and some this morning here in town. I personally wouldn't touch jones till mid April or May. The water is too cold. That's just my opinion tho.
Okay. Makes sense. Thanx for the reply.
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The earliest we've fished one year was in mid February but it was a pretty mild winter.
Other years we've been up there around now, but we're having a colder April for sure so I'd delay it for a few more weeks.
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Good advice!
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Adventure 90% driving up & down getting to Jones & leaving Jones lake.
Adventure 10% the fishing part.
Guess this lake freezes so ice fishing would be good ?
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I took my kids there last summer. We trolled around with wedding rings and flatfish and caught quite a few small pan fry size rainbows - great fun. We also caught some pretty big signal crayfish. Has anyone had success targeting the cutthroat? I would have thought of the twenty or so fish we caught a bigger cutty might have turned up but nada. Any advice? Post or pm me...
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I took my kids there last summer. We trolled around with wedding rings and flatfish and caught quite a few small pan fry size rainbows - great fun. We also caught some pretty big signal crayfish. Has anyone had success targeting the cutthroat? I would have thought of the twenty or so fish we caught a bigger cutty might have turned up but nada. Any advice? Post or pm me...
Strange....I wonder if it was the time of year. I don't fish Jones in mid summer, but wedding bands with worms is lethal for both cutties and rainbows on that lake.
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I took my kids there last summer. We trolled around with wedding rings and flatfish and caught quite a few small pan fry size rainbows - great fun. We also caught some pretty big signal crayfish. Has anyone had success targeting the cutthroat? I would have thought of the twenty or so fish we caught a bigger cutty might have turned up but nada. Any advice? Post or pm me...
Creek mouths. :) Both Alta Lake in Whistler and Jones Lake are stocked with 3N Taylor strain cutthroat trout. They are aggressive under the right conditions, and usually found in the shallows in April, May and even into June. We catch them by casting and retrieving 1/8oz Crocs, float fishing with single eggs, stripping a leech pattern with an intermediate sink line.
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Creek mouths. :) Both Alta Lake in Whistler and Jones Lake are stocked with 3N Taylor strain cutthroat trout. They are aggressive under the right conditions, and usually found in the shallows in April, May and even into June. We catch them by casting and retrieving 1/8oz Crocs, float fishing with single eggs, stripping a leech pattern with an intermediate sink line.
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The cutthroat are stocked into Jones and Alta Lakes to predate on stickleback, in order to boost the kokanee population, as the stickleback compete with the kokanee for food.
Knowing that coastal cutthroat are piscivorous and were put there for stickleback for crowd control, spoons and other terminal tackle meant to imitate batifish would be highly effective.
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Love catching these cutthroat trout, probably my favourite species in lakes around here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbOH_38qkbg
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Wow! Nice catch Rod!
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Here's another one from Alta Lake.
(https://i.imgur.com/HCBRtUB.jpg)
At Jones Lake, I've never encountered any specimens that are as large as the big ones at Alta. Here's a Jones Lake fish.
(https://i.imgur.com/R86DcSX.png)
They also tend to be a bit on the skinny side.
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Thanks for the replies. I am thinking it was time of year.
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Have anyone eaten one?
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Here's another one from Alta Lake.
(https://i.imgur.com/HCBRtUB.jpg)
At Jones Lake, I've never encountered any specimens that are as large as the big ones at Alta. Here's a Jones Lake fish.
(https://i.imgur.com/R86DcSX.png)
They also tend to be a bit on the skinny side.
Hi Rodney, I spent the last 8 years living On Alta lake, I fished it almost every evening from April to November for those years. some of you may have seen me in my zodiac trolling flies along the docks on the west side.
On October 16 2015 I caught my biggest cutty, close to 15lbs. Was witnessed by my next door neighbour Andy Petersen and his girlfriend. He was whistlers longest living resident. I was doing my evening troll with a #8 black leech on full sink right by the point docks, when my rod tip slowly went down. I thought I snagged a fallen log.. I stopped and tried yanking my line free. After a few seconds I felt a slow but hard tug. I realized it was a fish. Having caught many in the 3-5 lbs range during the spring and fall months, I knew it was big. The battle was on, as you know the older fish don’t fight very aggressively but pull slow and hard. This thing was like a freight train, I’d reel it in 10 feet.. and he would take out 30. After about 20 minutes I was able to gain on him, he was tired. I brought him along side of my boat, the net I had wouldn’t even fit a quarter of him. He was almost black, an old man of the lake, I had him by the tail, was able to pull out my fly from his lip easily, then I lifted him up to show my neighbour Andy who was watching the whole thing from his balcony. It was just a bit over 3 feet long thick and very dark almost black, his spots were barely visible. He was released ASAP.
I wish I had a picture of him, as he is the biggest trout I’ve ever caught in my life.
It was absolutely insane.
The monsters are still in there, but getting more rare every year. The stocking is almost none existent now from what i heard. 220 in 2017, can’t find any other records for recent years.
When I first moved to Alta lake in 2012 the cuttys were plentiful. And it’s declined every year since.
I no longer lived there, as I bought a house in maple ridge near the allouette. That is where I hunt the cutty now.