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 on my Jon boat but as luck would have it, there was a newly formed sheet of ice on the East end of the lake. I met a really nice fella named Jim from Ephrata who was cleaning his catch of stocker trout when I arrived. He even gave me a hand tied fly AND a spinner to try! . We had the lake to ourselves for the first hour and but the fish weren't really biting for me at first. I tried a casting bubble and fly, a worm and a spinner with no takes.When I switched up to a pumpkin crappie jig, I got my first keeper, a fat 14" rainbow. My new buddy Hans(Scoutii340) gave me a tip on spinner color and between the jig and rooster tail I caught and released 6 trout and ended up taking home a 5 fish limit. The wind came up and it got cold fast. . It was surprising how few fishermen were out today. It should only get better as things start to warm up> Jiggy

Jay K

3/3/2011 5:41:00 PM

Nice report.

scoutii304

3/3/2011 8:48:00 PM

Nice report, Jiggy. Sorry I couldn't make it today. Anything bigger than 14"? I'm going tomorrow and maybe Sat. For the derby (Rufus Woods is off, bummer). Might just blow up the float tube & troll a fly or two & win that derby! And sorry I didn't have the info on the east end launch. I just didn't get up there Tuesday.

scoutii304

3/3/2011 9:12:00 PM

Nice report, Jiggy. Sorry I couldn't make it today. Anything bigger than 14"? I'm going tomorrow and maybe Sat. For the derby (Rufus Woods is off, bummer). Might just blow up the float tube & troll a fly or two & win that derby! And sorry I didn't have the info on the east end launch. I just didn't get up there Tuesday.

The Jigmiester

3/4/2011 2:22:00 AM

Scoutii. I only got 1 decent fish, that 14" male. all the others were short, fat and oddly, the males were sexually mature and dark colored. I 've seen this with atlanic salmon smolts while working at Trout Lodge, but never in such young rainbow trout. The male rainbows I caught had kyped hooked noses and white milt coming out of them. Most averaged barely 11". Good luck at the derby bro. Jiggy

MotoBoat

3/6/2011 9:08:00 AM

Jiggy, were you fishing the crappie jig under the float ? All worked up to try the new toy strapped to the boat and the lake is frozen. I bet it was tempting to break ice? I have seen some interesting methods fishermen use to break thin ice with there boats. Hope the motor runs like a dream. Those fish you caught sound to be very colorful.

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