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By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/14/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
THE GOOD, BAD and UGLY
GOOD - Caught a nice 13" Rainbow on a 1/6 oz Rostertail
BAD - Wind was blowing like crazy. Didn't dare cast upwind for fer of hooking myself.
UGLY - The trash aro...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/11/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/10/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I hit Burke at 10 am and fished the east end of the lake by the disabled fishing dock. I ended up catching 1 stocker 8" trout and had 5 bites in the 3 hours that I fished. I plan on trying Burke again...
By: dfram
Posted: 3/28/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/28/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Three of us started fishing about 9;30 and limited by 2. Largest was 16 in, several others were around 12 to 13 in. Weather was sunny and temp around the mid 50's, had a good time.
By: Robert Lindsey
Posted: 3/19/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/19/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Wanted to fish potholes today. Unfortunately there was a stiff, but not strong, southerly flow. I wanted to launch from the lake's north shore. My boat is only 7.5' long so "stiff" was all it took to ...
By: jpd45acp
Posted: 3/15/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/14/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I got off work early and decided to drive out to Burke Lake. As I turned onto White Trail road I noticed that the wind was blowing pretty good, but by the time I reached the lake the wind was fairly c...
By: Kfisherman
Posted: 3/12/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/11/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Hit Burke Lake again for a couple of hours. Got there around 1130 and fished until 1400 hours. There were quite a few people out fishing too. About a dozen watercrafts (canoes, kayaks, boats). Mos...
By: baydog1990
Posted: 3/5/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Out for a drive, stopped and fished 30 minutes at boat launch caught 2, 10 and 21 inches not bad. Big brooders. Quincy lake was poppin with some really nice fish taken from shore.
By: Kfisherman
Posted: 3/4/2011
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/4/2011
Hot Spots: 0
After reading the last two reports on Burke, I decided to make a quick stop today. I got there around 1pm and left at 2:30pm. The large tent for the derby was already set up. There were alot of peo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/3/2011
Species:
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/3/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Well, I had just enough time to make a jaunt over o the Quincy lakes in Grant county to try for some decent sized Rainbow trout. I was actually hoping to try out my new 4 horse Johnson outboard motor ...
By: scoutii304
Posted: 3/1/2011
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Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2011
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Burke today, but only a few casts with a Kastmaster after limiting on my favorite of the smaller lakes in the Quincy Wildlife Area. Hit the lake at about 6 and found it iced over at the usua...
By: shane serrano
Posted: 3/15/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/12/2010
Hot Spots: 0
we was out at burke lake just before dusk and there was fish jumping everywhere so we put on a bobber with a fly and man the fish just hit that fly man that was pretty awsome suprisingly fish are aver...
By: The Jigmiester
Posted: 3/7/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Every year I try to make it up and fish The Quincy lakes in Grant county. This year I took my fiancee Pam for a boat ride to not only catch some trout, but officially confirm that my over winter patch...
By: gpc
Posted: 3/4/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Fished the March 1st opener this year at Burke. We got to the lake at about noon and fished until about 3pm. Between the 4 of us we caught 6 fish. The action was kind of slow for the opener but the fi...
By: keefers6
Posted: 5/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/24/2009
Hot Spots: 0
After we had spent the very early moring at Blue lake we decided to come to Burke lake. We had great weather with no wind a so two of us decided to fly fish while the rest slept from the early morning...
By: Teal101
Posted: 5/12/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Burke Saturday and Sunday. Both days fished in the afternoon. Fishing was slow and I did not catch a thing. Seen one trout caught. Tried sitting with powerbait in green, pink, and rainbow m...
By: keefers6
Posted: 5/10/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 5/10/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Well it was a very nice day but it wasn't so nice, it was pretty bad. My wife caught one nice one on her first cast and that was it, no bites either. We did notice that as the sun started to go down t...
By: keefers6
Posted: 4/8/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/5/2009
Hot Spots: 0
It was a very nice day to be out fishing, the wife and I got a little sunburned but that was well worth it. The fishing was fairly good, between them little buggers and the dog they didn't let us sit ...
By: keefers6
Posted: 3/28/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/27/2009
Hot Spots: 0
It was a windy evening but the fish were still biting. Between three of us we could have had our limits in about two hours if we weren't catching and releasing. Just like last week any color power bai...
By: poacherpatrol
Posted: 3/20/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Burke for an hour or so after work, before the weekend crowd started to arrive. Very windy, but still managed 4 stockers 11-13". Still seems a little slow for how many fish are in the lake. ...
By: keefers6
Posted: 3/20/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/20/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Between my wife, my brother and I with only about an hour and a half to fish we landed 11 trout. I was using a bobber with powerbait and the other two were off the bottom with powerbait. It really did...
By: gpc
Posted: 3/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/3/2008
Hot Spots: 0
On Friday all the lakes were pretty well iced over, but on Sunday the lakes were a lot more fishable. Burke only had a tiny hole of fishable water on Friday but Sunday, about half the lake was open. W...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/2/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 3/1/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Figuring Ice would be a factor at Burke,I decided to go and plop some powerbait from the bank.The access was very poor due to about 85% of the lake was covered with ice.So all the people there for ope...
By: gpc
Posted: 5/29/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Date: 5/24 - 5/28
Drive Time: 2.5 Hours
Stay: Burke Lake (free)
Weather: Mostly sunny, HOT, windy
The first day the fish were jumping like crazy all very small fish. We ended up catching a 16"...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/27/2007
Species:
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/25/2007
Hot Spots: 0
fished friday saturday and sunday with about 15 people. over the weekend we caught probably 10 trout between 10-12". Sunday morning at about 10:00am I dropped my worm in about 6 feet of water and caug...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 3/11/2007
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Rating: 3
Fished: 3/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
After fishing Quincy for 2 days and hearing that everyone was catching fish at Burke I headed over to try my luck. I read the other Burke report of poor fishing and timing is everything.
I arr...