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Fishing in British Columbia => Fishing Reports => Members' Fishing Reports => Topic started by: Rodney on May 12, 2013, 10:32:42 AM

Title: Alta Lake, May 11th 2013
Post by: Rodney on May 12, 2013, 10:32:42 AM
I had a reasonably good, but short day yesterday at the lake, spent more time driving than actually fishing. I was just glad to be able to get out after not being able to fish on all those sunny days in the past two weeks. :-\

Fished from 1:00pm until 3:30pm. They were quite active in the shallow water. I was just casting Gibbs Croc spoons, 1/16oz silver with orange stripe. The first two dozen casts produced four cutthroat trout that ranged between 16 and 20 inches long. The rest of the time I had a couple of smaller rainbows on before the Southerly wind blew us off the lake.

Water temperature was surprisingly higher than I expected, 60F/15C. Good luck to those who decide to venture out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbOH_38qkbg

(http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc90/fishingwithrod/2013/130511-1_zpsaf8a1368.jpg)
Title: Re: Alta Lake, May 11th 2013
Post by: Shawn6o4 on May 12, 2013, 03:46:05 PM
I was there also, it was my birthday yesterday so whent to alta for the first time, managed one cutthroat.
Title: Re: Alta Lake, May 11th 2013
Post by: Rodney on May 12, 2013, 04:55:22 PM
Nice. Were you in one of the inflatable boats?
Title: Re: Alta Lake, May 11th 2013
Post by: RG on May 12, 2013, 05:33:58 PM
I was there too!  Managed two large cutties from my float tube.
Title: Re: Alta Lake, May 11th 2013
Post by: SteelheadAdict on May 12, 2013, 06:54:08 PM
theres a good cutty rod good job
Title: Re: Alta Lake, May 11th 2013
Post by: Rodney on May 12, 2013, 10:40:50 PM
I was there too!  Managed two large cutties from my float tube.

You must have been the float tuber near the boat launch when I was getting ready at around 1pm? I spent a short amount of time covering that area before moving away and managed to find a fish right away there. Fishing appears to be pretty good, looking forward to go back at least one more time this spring.
Title: Re: Alta Lake, May 11th 2013
Post by: Shawn6o4 on May 13, 2013, 05:59:58 AM
I was in a rented canoe, stayed in shore around a large boulder to the left of lakeside park. It was my first time there i only had a small spinning setup, i thought i would just try off the floating dock but after 2 casts realized my chances were slim lol. So we rented a canoe for an hour and had a few on but lost and got 1 to hand about 10 inch cutty. Next time i will be more preppared with an inflatable. It was a good trip for only an hour and not knowing the water
Title: Re: Alta Lake, May 11th 2013
Post by: cohoaaron on May 13, 2013, 05:39:29 PM
Hey Rod, do you find that with that rod (the tuflite) you have trouble with losing fish because you cant get a great hook set, because the rod has such little backbone? Thats what ive noticed but just wondering if you have that same problem?
Great video by the way!
Title: Re: Alta Lake, May 11th 2013
Post by: RG on May 13, 2013, 05:47:11 PM
You must have been the float tuber near the boat launch when I was getting ready at around 1pm? I spent a short amount of time covering that area before moving away and managed to find a fish right away there. Fishing appears to be pretty good, looking forward to go back at least one more time this spring.

Yeah that was me, I spent most of my time between the boat launch and the beach.  All my landed fish were near the boat launch. Good times!