wildcat111
09-14-2014, 03:33 PM
hello everyone, i have fished chain with my kids now for at least the last 12-15 yrs, this has always been the place to take the younger ones to guarantee a pleasant trip. i was shocked this summer to find that no one was catching fish other than suckers, i thought maybe i lost my touch but this was confirm by the conservation officer on site, as to date only 17000 very small trout released, and only another 39000 due for this fall, this lake usually see numbers between 100-300 thousand released every yr, there reasoning behind the lack of fish being stocked is because there isn't enough food for them in the lake. probably because of all the sucker fish. We even caught suckers in the middle of the lake with fly rods this yr.Now i'm not really complaining as there is lots of other places to fish where the catch rates are easily attained. But i thought with the ice fishing season coming up fellow members may like to know before they spend there money on supplies and gas ect, that chain won't be the go to spot to take the kids anymore. Pine coulee it is