PDA

View Full Version : Lake fishing after rain?

waynep
10-06-2011, 08:09 AM
Here's the scoop, I am planning on fishing police lake this Saturday but they are calling for 50+mm of rain between now and Then. How off color will the water be? Am I wasting my time trying to fish this soon after a huge rainfall?
Gust
10-06-2011, 12:52 PM
Here's the scoop, I am planning on fishing police lake this Saturday but they are calling for 50+mm of rain between now and Then. How off color will the water be? Am I wasting my time trying to fish this soon after a huge rainfall?

When a rain kicks in and 50mm is a ton of rain, and should you choose to go, you can spot the turbid water, e.g., a stream is making a chocolate edge/stream into some clearer water,, cast onto that edge, fish are tuned into wash-up and wash-out, it's a smorgasboard for them,, bugs, worms, minnows going for grub and so forth. Fish will also prey closer to shore,, but 50mm is a good dump of rain should you choose to take the mission. check the wind too it's blustering down in Calgary. Be safe.

My Bad, the water clarity could be murky just pick your lure, I personally like the brackish water.
ORV
10-06-2011, 01:13 PM
heading down that way on sat.
will be trying payne first.
hopefully the bite will be on!

orv.
0liver
10-06-2011, 01:48 PM
I find on some trout lakes, after a good rain the fishing is amazing, trolling a big leech pattern, the bigguns just can't resist, its almost as if the rain stirs up the bottom and all the worms and bugs and other goodies get floating about and it turns the feed on.

that being said, catching walleye on a river after a good rain is the exact opposite.

my 2 cents.
Oliver
Dust1n
10-06-2011, 05:07 PM
fish the side that the waves are crashing into and use bait...
All else has been covered
tara_13
10-06-2011, 05:17 PM
Good.. Trout fishing should be GREAT tomorrow.. !! Cant wait
waynep
10-06-2011, 08:17 PM
fish the side that the waves are crashing into and use bait...
All else has been covered

USE BAIT? Read the regs!
ORV
10-06-2011, 08:28 PM
USE BAIT? Read the regs!

do you know something we don,t?
did they all of a sudden put a bait ban on stocked trout lakes???

orv.
Dust1n
10-06-2011, 08:31 PM
USE BAIT? Read the regs!

Whats lake are we talking about? im pretty sure were allowed bait on sylvan and gull lake?
Gust
10-06-2011, 08:39 PM
Whats lake are we talking about? im pretty sure were allowed bait on sylvan and gull lake?

Police
Dust1n
10-06-2011, 08:44 PM
Police

yeah i read that at the top...:)
hacman
10-06-2011, 09:22 PM
Police is never a waste of time, always some good fish to be caught on the fly. Even with the rain the water clarity shouldn't be bad.
ORV
10-06-2011, 09:40 PM
Police

my apologies. i was talking about payne.
forgot about police at the top.

orv.