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Went to the quincy lake area this weekend and had a great time. I fished several of the lakes there and had success in all. Sat. morning early hiked into dusty with my buddy ryan and we floattubed. The fishing was decent I had 4 fish in about 3 hours, biggest was 18" an nothing under 15" C&R except the last one which I kept for dinner. All were caught on a olive buggers. The trout in that lake jump and run like salmon, it's awesome. I was using an ultralight with 4lb test so the drag hummed a little ha! Hiked back to camp at burke by about 10am set up the gulp eggs and fished while bbqing some lunch. Ryan an I each caught another rainbow before our first cheddar brat. They were 12-13" and fat. After lunch and a trip to town we hit quincy lake. I didn't bring my boat because my truck is in the shop so we shore fished again with gulp eggs. Never have been a fan of powerbait or this kind of fishing in general, but man did it work. We finished off our limits for the day in about an hour and a half. 12-14" football trout, stomachs were packed with flys. Around 7pm headed over to stan coffin and H lake. We fished it from the shore with jigs I caught three decent LMB(C&R) all about the same size and a couple bluegill in about 45min, then switched to H lake. H lake is a cool looking lake but I never do well in it. Just tiny crappie and a LMB once in a while. Went back to stan coffin around sunset caught some more bluegill (thin that pop.), and used the bluegills as cut bait and caught my very first channel cat! It was 20" and gave a nice fight on my medium light rod and again 4lb line. (To lazy to re-line while camping). I felt like jeremy wade from that show river monsters always waiting for my drag to start clicking ha. I ended up with one more smaller cat after that then had to get some sleep. Next morning was hot and sunny. Caught a couple more trout from the campsite then some more bluegills from stan coffin on the way out. All in all a good trip. The only problem was the increased amount of trash in the campsitess around burke. PICK UP YOUR TRASH! I just dont get it? -Chad

SportRadical

5/23/2011 11:57:00 AM

Not sure where my bass picture is? Does anyone know how to edit a post after it has been posted?

MarkFromSea

5/24/2011 1:41:00 PM

Awesome report! Sounds like a nicely rounded multi species and lake trip. I was there also, Stan and H. Wish I had jumped around a bit more, spent entire 5/22 at H out of a little jon boat. I enjoyed my time there but had little success with the bass that were on beds but the blue gill, pumkinseed & crappie were in a major feeding frenzy. Just thinking, we might have spoke over there around the north ? end of the lake, you said something about rarely catching any decent sized "sun fish" there and you could not get some bass on a bed to bite. The H bedded bass really did not want to bite, while the Stan coffin ones did, ?????? LOL Fickle Fish! LOL

SportRadical

5/24/2011 9:47:00 PM

Ya man that was me ha. Sweet little john boat by the way, where did you launch from?

MarkFromSea

5/27/2011 2:25:00 PM

Right On! If you happened to see that white work van at the H Lake parking lot(SE corner of the lake), that's where I launched from, yep, down that steep bank! Not a bad put in, gravity helping, taking out wasn't too bad either, I've got those flip down wheels on the jon boat.

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