Star Lake

mackpup · #1 05-13-2008, 10:03 PM

WTF?..............I have brought my pontoon boat out to star now for three days straight for a couple hours each night and have caught nothing. Everyone on shore has caught nothing. I was out on Sunday and there was 5 other in pontoon boats fly fishing and they caught nothing. What the hell?

Dr. Fish · #2 05-13-2008, 10:12 PM

Personally I'd go somewhere else.

redneck posse · #3 05-14-2008, 06:43 AM

star winter kills most years wait untill they stock it again after may long. try hasse nice trout in it. so i've been told.

Morph1 · #4 05-14-2008, 10:23 AM

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WTF?..............I have brought my pontoon boat out to star now for three days straight for a couple hours each night and have caught nothing.

LOL, there was no winter kill dude, the fish are just feeding on something different than your presentation, same thing I experienced at East Pit lake last weekend, till we eventually caught one and pumped it's gut, it was feeding from the bottom on some weird aquatic insect I forget the name as I am not a fly fishing expert, during that afternoon there was chironomid hatch that's when we started to get hits.
Other than that the morning was a waste of time as we got to the lake at 5:45 am, same thing at Chikakoo also zero bites...
From now on it wil just get better and better.

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star winter kills most years wait untill they stock it again after may long. try hasse nice trout in it. so i've been told.

well to that I just can not agree as last fall I caught a 25" bow from Star weghing close to 7 LBS,
you don't think fish like that can develop to that size in under 1 year after being stocked...,
I bet that bow was living in that lake for more than 5 seasons.
there maybe some partial winter kill at a small precentage some winters...,
but I think it happens rarely.
Well who knows maybe they stock Star with a 25" bows

Cheers !

wildman · #5 05-14-2008, 10:42 AM

i don't think star's winter-killed in many years.
I've seen trout to 9 lbs there.
i heard it was on fire at last ice.
could be it's started to turn.
if the water looks murked it's probably what's happened.
that usually kills to bite for a week or two.
good luck if you try again. gw

redneck posse · #6 05-14-2008, 05:40 PM

thats good to know. i've been told by a few people that star winter kills almost every year. nice to know that it don't. may head out there this weekend.