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Posted: 7/12/2012
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/7/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took Lisa to Grimes for a very unique experience. Catching quality Lahontan Cutthroat on a fly in a desert coulee. Jeff works chronomids deep on the fish there. He has decades of experience fi...
Posted: 7/6/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/5/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Jeff took our new guide, Brian "man thong" Whitney to exercise the Grimes Lake Lahontans. Brian caught 27 while the fish were laughing themselves to the boat over his version of sunscreen... Once ag...
Posted: 7/4/2011
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/2/2011
Hot Spots: 0
Our Grimes specialist, Jeff, took Randy and Spencer (12) Davis of Shawana to Grimes for some Lahontan catching. They had a nice day with 42 fish between them. They were using chronomids and Pheasant...
Posted: 7/10/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/8/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Once again Jeff nailed 'em for his guy on Grimes. He caught and released 34 Lahontan Cutthroat. The big fish was about 25 inches and just over 5 pounds. What a great quality fishery. Chronomids an...
Posted: 6/29/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/29/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Sandy and I went for a businessman's holiday to Grimes Lake for some Lahontan Cutthroat trout smackdown with our Grimes guide extraordinaire, Jeff Witkowski. We fished about 4 hours and caught 11 Cut...
By: KIRK BYSHEIM
Posted: 6/16/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2010
Hot Spots: 0
My brother and I made our second trip ever to Grimes Lake and again we were not dissapointed. This is one of those lakes that any serious trout angler needs to fish at least once.Its a long drive and ...
By: Splitshot
Posted: 6/4/2010
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/1/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Grimes is a beautiful lake surrounded by high cliffs of columnar basalt. It was my second time there. We picked our way through the potholes and bumps on the access road and hit the water just before...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/13/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 8/12/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I was on the water by 10am and encountered large fish slurping everywhere. But they were safe from my efforts as I had no blue damsels in my fly box. I threw everything else at them with no luck, no...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/1/2008
Species: Catfish
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
If you're going to fish Grimes during the middle of the day in late June, you better pack a lunch, and a lot of beer because it's HOT. The fishing wasn't though. Too much algae in the lake. My buddy s...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/24/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2008
Hot Spots: 2
In-#%$&*@#$ing-credible. Just like every other year. Two of us had ten fish in the boat by 9:00am - none under 2lbs. This fishery is a true treasure. The Lahontan Cutthroat (only species in the la...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/25/2007
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/20/2007
Hot Spots: 0
The fishing experience can be summarized with one word.....really great. The full moon must have triggered something with the kokanee because fish were rising all night. Sand shrimp on treble hooks wa...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/1/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/1/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Seung and I on the water at 9. One other choronomid fisherman, Bob, on the lake. Damsel nymph deep. Caught fish right away. We finished at 1 pm with 20 fish together. The moss is not a problem ye...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/20/2006
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/16/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Caught two fish - one three pounds, one five pounds on a purple leech. Fished about three hours.
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/23/2005
Species: Cutthroat Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/20/2005
Hot Spots: 0
As all flyfishers know, lake-fishing in the hot summer weather can be extremely challenging and often fruitless unless you know what to do. On Saturday, August 20, 2005, there were five flyfishers in...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2005
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Yep the secret trick still catches fish. Here is my wife with a nice football sized lahontan cutthroat 19" an evening catch right before dark. What great lake. Be ready to conquer the moss bloom, I ke...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/3/2005
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2005
Hot Spots: 0
Caught and released 21 Lah. Cutthroat trout from 4 am to 1 pm. My smallest was 16" and the largest was 23". My two big ones (20"& 23") were Red and Spawning and the rest were silver. I felt lucky to h...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 11/30/2004
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Rating: 4
Fished: 11/30/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Winter arrived here in the Lake Chelan Valley. It is beautiful. The Lake Trout fishing has stabilized with 1 to 2 fish per hour being caught in the lower basin pulling flatfish and wide bodied spoon...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2004
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/2/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Fished two days after opening, had heard of some fish caught on wooley buggers (flyfishing) but we trolled a single barbless behind some flashers and caught one good lahaughtan cutthroat about 19 in...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 4/26/2003
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Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Fishing on Grimes Opener was nothing short of Spectacular. Weather was perfect, and the fish fat. A friend and I caught over 23 fish. We used Rooster tails, Rainbow. Red, mft.and black seemed to put f...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/6/2002
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Rating: 5
Fished: 7/6/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Lake has floating algae that is wind blown. Clean fly often. Let fly sink below algae and move slowly. Olive damsel nymph. Fish are plentiful and 20".
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/22/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 6/22/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Grimes Lake on Saturday, June 22, 2002. Started fishing at first light. We were flyfishing using an intermediate line and kicking around damsel nymphs and princes. Caught 3 Lahotans in the 2-...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/1/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 6/1/2001
Hot Spots: 0
This lake is awesome. I recommend it to anyone with a lot of patience with catching big picky trout.