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I went out to Green attempting to target the browns I'd heard were out there as I was taking a friend that was newer at fishing so I figured this way he could catch the rainbows and I could target the browns and hopefully we'd end up with the same amount of fish. I started trolling a big 3/4 ounce metallic perch krocadile, much larger than anything I've tried on this lake. Almost immediately I hooked a 13" trip. Not exactly what I was hoping for but at least the size of fish was a little better.

After circling the lake once I decided to switch to a black and white diving rapala. No matter what I did, fast/slow/medium I could not keep it out of the weeds (I was on the south side of the lake). I did manage to pick up a rock bass trolling it in between one of my stops to remove weeds. I switched to a suspending broke-back perch rapala and had the same issue with the weeds so I went back to the big krocadile.

Ended up catching 4 fish 12-14" in about 2 hours and releasing 3-4 smaller. Lost another ~14" at the boat. Had a ton (~20) single strikes without hookups. I am guessing it was smaller trout coming up and smacking at the big spoon but who knows.

My friend lost one inside the boat (he was swinging it around on the line like it was a club... he's really quite hopeless but I tried) and otherwise only had 1-2 strikes. He was using a new rod/reel combo he must have picked up minutes earlier with the shitty factory line still on it and spent most his time fighting rats nests, but did have 1-2 other strikes. He was fishing spinners.

Attached are pictures of the trout, largest one is 14". Didn't hook up a single Brown, so if anyone has any hints at how to target them I'd appreciate it.

N E 1 FISSION

6/19/2012 2:50:00 PM

Usually I hear they catch "browns" during the winter, at least that all the reports I see hear,...

cardinalorange

6/19/2012 2:59:00 PM

Well they only stock them (12,000 fingerling browns) in the fall (November) in Greenlake, so that would make sense, but there has to be some turnover... I can't see every single on of the 12,000 fingerling browns getting caught/eaten up in 8 months.

fishalot33

6/19/2012 4:09:00 PM

Ive fished browns in a few different places and had good results fishing weed lines but not trolling more casting like bass fishing browns are more of a preditor than rainbows even when small.they like to hide in structure/weed lines and ambush prey. rapala/jerkbaits work good for me even caught on grubs.

cardinalorange

6/19/2012 4:13:00 PM

That would make sense and would definitely agree with what I've been reading on people who've been catching them in this lake. The big factor for me is that I haven't brought a fish/depth finder to this lake yet and there isn't a topo map so I'm unsure which sides have the depth to support said structure. I know around the west side of the island it's crazy shallow (~2-3 feet max, I almost grounded my boat). I was thinking of trolling a big topwater about 20 yards offshore in circles around the lake.

Chumknuckle

6/20/2012 8:11:00 AM

Thanks for the report! I found a map from the 30's, might still be accurate: http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3158/2982496988_da4bbae196_z.jpg
Looks like the middle towards the east side would be a good place to troll deep.

wlai

6/20/2012 10:51:00 PM

if you upgrade to premium on the site you'll find a very recent map that's uploaded. Support the site!

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