Blue Lake Sinleheken

[Happy Gilmore]

Leaving Wednesday for Conc area...specifically Blue Lake. Has anyone been fishing Blue? Last three years in a row were the first hot weekends of the year and the snow melt flooded everything and turned the fishing OFF! Hoping for some milder weather to go sit in the tube and twitch the chrono's.....

Anyone been up there? Any sizes / colors hotter than others?

[saylean]

The weathers been real nice up there I have heard. I also heard that the fishing has been great. If ya run into a Dept of Fish and Game guy named Justin with a big beard...tell him hi, he's my buddy from high school, one of the nicest guys you'll meet.

Good luck, looking forward to some pics...

[boneaddict]

Troll a big leech with a bead head, darker the pattern the murkier the water for some fresh ones that aren't spawning.  I've caught a couple leviathons doing that.   Haven't been there yet this spring.  I was seriously thinking about it though.  Its just a long drive.  

[boneaddict]

I wondered about that.  There is some absolute muley country around there.  My inlaws have a house on Wannacut.

(are we talking the same blue lake, or is there another one closer to Conc.....)

[mossback91]

Shoot man theres waaay too many blue lakes!!! One in oroville the one in sinlahekin and the one up the lime belt!!!

The one in oroville has been producing some big spawning cutthroats......thats all I know

[jackelope]

are they really spawning though? they are lahontans right?

[huntnphool]

Lahontans should be done by now though.

[mossback91]

are they really spawning though? they are lahontans right?

Yes and Yes

They spawn in the spring........Start spawning sometime in april i believe?

[mossback91]

Lahontans should be done by now though.

tail end buddy was up there like a week ago and  they were still going

[jackelope]

yeah but they're not actually spawning. they just think they are. they're sterile.

[huntnphool]

I used to go to Lenore several times every year, that was a kick. I seem to remember them starting in mid to late March and being done by the end of April, I'm getting older though

[mossback91]

Ive caught the cuthroats in omak lake that still spawning a bit in the beginning of june

[mossback91]

yeah but they're not actually spawning. they just think they are. they're sterile.

really?

[jackelope]

yep...really.

the only place i've ever seen them or caught them is at lenore. there's a little stream that flows into the lake that the fish stack up in every spring...they do everything except lay eggs. they turn color, make redds. etc. everythign except the eggs.

[mossback91]

hmm thats wierd....I know the ones in omak lake lay eggs......and fertilize them.......Ive actually never fished the blue lake myself just going by what my friend said