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Well took a drive out to 6 Mile and Morgan today after work. Managed to drag out the Flyguys gnome for his debut!
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As you can see both lakes are still frozen with about 15 feet of open water exposed in some areas on both lakes
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Well, all I can say is that this ice is bull sh*t! 😉
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Back to the home we go. Let the warm weather come and the strong winds blow!
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Does anyone know if Ernest was stocked last year and with size/amount? I’m hoping fishing picks up there again in the future.
Ernest was stocked last September with 3000 Pennask AF3N fry.
Stocked with fall fry (i.e. fish that are probably 2 inches in length). In other words, I wouldn’t waste my time going there until spring 2015.
what about the 1500 fish stocked every year? winter-killed?
Evidently it was a complete winterkill last season. The first time that anyone I have talked to can recall a winterkill at Ernest.
Cool, good to know. Thanks guys!
Hi there, was wondering if any one has any idea about white lake ice off?
According to Sunny Shore Resort’s facebook page it was 50% ice free as of this morning.
tweeted to bcflyguys earlier today …
once stump lake is iced off is it open to fishing or is there a certain day the fishing opens?
No closure on Stump.
okay thanks, im thinking of driving up for the long weekend (march 29 30 31) are there any other lakes around kamloops that will be iced off and ready to fish for that weekend
No guarantees but probably Six Mile & Morgan.
White Lake
There is one new closure on Stump in the 2013-2015 regulations. There is now an area marked by boundary signs on the north end where the creek comes in that is off limits for fishing.
Thanks for the heads up Ron!
only restriction on stump lk is speed which is 70km/hr
Heading down south to Kamloops for a week on the 22nd hoping to get the fly rod out you guys think 6 mile, Morgan and stump will be fishable by then?
Nothing’s for sure but I think so.
I would say 6 Mile will be completely ice-off around the 23rd and Morgan the 25th. Stump, probably not until April 2nd (which is still early). Could be wrong, but that is what the good ol’ ice-off simulator is giving me.
Does your simulator take into account actual …..
… Sorry guys trying to keep things in one place. Moved the question and answer here: https://flyguys.net/blog/forum/flyguys-net-discussion-board-group1/everything-fishing-forum9/darryls-2013-ice-off-simulator-predictions-thread42.0#postid-180
Hi Rob. Is the road to 6 mile open at the Tobiano turn off.
I’ve never seen that road closed.
My Brother was out there last fall and said the was a locked chain across road. He must have went the wrong way. Thanks for your info.
International Fly Fishing Film Festival coming to Kamloops May 4th, Clock Tower, TRU. For info and tickets go to http://flyfilmfest.com/IF4/festival-schedule/ and scroll to bottom of the page.
Cheers,
Darryl
Kewl! Thanks Darryl!
Went for some browsing at Herby’s today, chatted with a very friendly and knowledgeable guy called Mo …….
… Mr. Bradley deserves his own thread so I moved the discussion here: https://flyguys.net/blog/forum/flyguys-net-discussion-board-group1/everything-fishing-forum9/mo-bradley-thread47 🙂
anyone check the statis of morgan 6 mile or stump this weekend?
Just got back from checking out Stump lake …
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Check out all the rocks … obviously others had the same idea as us 🙂
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That was me! I was heading to Vernon from the coast and went by Stump in the dark. With the truck headlights on the lake the ice looked to be very thin. I grabbed a big rock and threw it out to the ice and was very disappointed when it just landed with a thud. I was just going to post the same pictures as you Rob but they are almost identical. I’m guessing another two weeks before we can fish much of the lake.
On my way back to the coast I went via 5A to Princeton and guys were fishing Allison Lake at the north end. I don’t know that lake but it goes to show you, we (fisherpeople) will throw a line into any water that doesn’t have ice on it at this time of the year. Here’s hoping for high temperatures and winds until the ice is off and then high temps only. Cheers.
That’s too funny! 😀
Don B Allison lake is home to some very large bows !!! My brother has a place there and has shown me some pics of his catches, always the north end !!
Good to know! 😀
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Ice and fishing is still good up at Red! As you can see there’s a little melt starting around the edges of the island, but not much. Still Solid! Every Fish we seen today was just below the ice, Some were basically scraping their backs up against it (probably could have caught more fish with a spear as opposed to a rod lol). I’ve never seen it quite like that before, even stranger thing is, We were seeing lot’s, fishing in the deeper water, 15-20ft (twice my usual preferred depth.) Others we met were fishing the shallows since first light and seen nothing all morning, and were about to leave, then decided to come over next to us and hammered two right away. Lot’s of Big Brook 2lbs and up, didn’t see many small ones at all, which was nice (Of course I’m always better at losing the trophies and hooking smaller ones but oh well, still had a decent day). “Gulp” Leeches on any basic jig working the best, worms not so much (got us a couple sniffs and one hooked), shrimp not at all. And a couple good hit’s experimenting with various different flies. 🙂
Kamloops Lake has been hit or miss depending on the day and seems to be getting really busy with the warmer weather…
(weird, I couldn’t uplaod a second pic, the site says I did already? oh well, no big deal)Tightlines Everybody!
The fish being that shallow likely indicates that the oxygen levels beneath the ice are very low and the top of the water column is the only place that the fish can survive. This is not uncommon at Red in the late winter. Hopefully that ice starts moving soon…
Discussed this with the regional biologist and remember we have the Aerator working now. He feels because fish are also biting in the deep waters, that the ones on the top touching ice are feeding on zooplankton and shrimp. Lets get the ice off regardless, I can wait to try some of Krazy’s flies!!!
The flies are ready to go! Shoot me an email with a mailing address 🙂
I heard white lake iced off today! Can anyone confirm??
According to the facebook post, White lake is ice off as of today! Good luck
Morgan / Six Mile today …
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… looks like the turn in the weather slowed progress down a bit! Come on sunshine!
PS … thanks Shea for sending in the pictures! 🙂
just went out to white lake to confirm ice off, no ice, fished for an hour and a half and picked up 3 (17 ish), weather wasn’t great but felt great to feel that tug again. Had many other bites, all on black micro leeches
Six mile over 50% open water today! I predict an aluminum hatch there tomorrow and Sunday! 😉
Hey Rob, just wondering if you saw how Morgan was doing. Last simulator prediction for complete ice-off at 6 Mile was the 27th and Morgan the 28th, although for a long time it was the 23rd and 25th, respectively. Do you still think it may take 5 days from today (Friday) for 6 Mile to be completely ice-free? Also, if anyone can let me know the date it does in fact become ice free that would be great as I can not get up there until late next week due to work / family obligations. If I know the date of full ice-off I can work on correcting the simulator for better predictions next year. Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Darryl
Got this from Adam today. He said Morgan looked quite a ways behind. Heard it was going to minus 13 over the weekend (WTF!) so I think you’re going to be close. I plan to take a trip tomorrow or Sunday again so will let you know.
Rob, Thank you so much for your update. My understanding is the low this weekend for Kamloops is minus 4, so about minus 5.5 to – 6 at 6 mile and Morgan. By the way there is a great weather site that provides the same data Environment Canada uses by in my opinion it is much better than the government site. It is called Spotwx. If you click on it either let it find your location or type in Kamloops. Then scroll down. Environment Canada, and the best models, are the 12 h scribe, the the two at the very bottom, the short-term and long-term meteocode. Provides very usufull graphs of temperature, precipi, and wind. The link is http://spotwx.com/
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Darryl
Sorry for my sentence(s) above. Just want to be clear, the links to the models that give the best forecasts for Kamloops are the 12 Hour Scribe Nowcast (middle of page), the Shortterm Meteocode (second last link) and the Longterm meteocode (last link).
Cheers,
Darryl
Hi Darryl,
What is the simulator saying for Stump? I’m going to be in that area on the 1st of April and I’m hoping to spend the day on the lake. Do you expect that the ice will be off the north end at least by that date?
Darryl just updated it:
https://flyguys.net/blog/forum/flyguys-net-discussion-board-group1/everything-fishing-forum9/darryls-2013-ice-off-simulator-predictions-thread42.1#postid-193
Christian, be aware that the northernmost end of Stump is now closed to angling year round. Check out the new regs online. It is not clear exactly where the fishing boundary signs are located but I’m sure they will be visible from the water. I am guessing that it will be a small portion of the north end where the inlet enters the lake.
Ive been fishing White lake since the ice came off a few days ago but no luck …….
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