Took my wife, Mom and Dad out for My birthday. With dropping the kids off, and finding a very piece of warm clothing I owned we finally launched around 10. Ran down about half way and with in 5 mins of getting the first pole in the water we had our first fish. I let my mom reel it in (because she is the oldest) and it was a 17" brown. She let it go. We caught 3 brown's a 15, 16, 17. We picked up a lot of small rainbows, 12-14" at the far end of the lake where the creek dumps in. Mom reeled in the biggest Rainbow of the day @ 17 3/4". We caught over 20 fish in 5 hours. It was pretty hectic at times and then we had some lulls, but all in all a good day on the water. It was my first trip to Rock in almost a year and it is still my favorite place to fish. The ripping minnow in the. BROWN trout color was the hot lure, accounting for 80% of the fish. All the brown trout came on a tiny 1 1/2" black J plug with silver glitter. A couple other fish hit a sorted variety of plugs that my mom thought were "pretty" Trolling speed around 2.5 mph. Good day all around even if it was a touch cold. I didn't take any pictures, trying to get some from my mom and wife's phone.

Rocky

12/19/2014 2:30:00 PM

CC thanks for the report what a blessing to take your MOM and DAD both fishing great job my friend.

downriggeral

12/19/2014 11:24:00 PM

Hi CC - Rock used to be my favorite fall/winter lake until they started planting 35,000 peske rainbows that are three to a pound. They plant them in October now so the fabulous fall fishing is no more. Too bad really. I'm not willing to spend the day outside the warm heated top/enclosure turning loose those little buggers. Upped plug/fly sizes and they still attacked them.

I saw your lake Roosevelt post, good job! The orange Kekeda fly has been the winner there for us. Thanks for the info on the Sebile plugs, never tried those. Tight lines - Alan

CoyoteCrazy

12/20/2014 1:34:00 AM

I bought a couple of those magic swimmers years ago at the Sportsman expo in Portland when I lived down there and have never tried them before yesterday, and I bought the orange and black one because I couldn't find any flies or Rapalas in that color pattern. From what I have read so far from all the Roosevelt reports, it seems like the bigger/carryover s are hitting the flies. I do know that I didn't get a single bite on the plugs close to the bank/100' or less of water, but I saw other boats picking them up using what I assumed were flies behind a dodger.

downriggeral

12/20/2014 9:03:00 AM

The ones you got are real hogs so I would say you found the right combination for that day. We have been catching ours in 100'+, away from the bank towards the middle. I think they are foraging on daphnia zoo-plankton out there.

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