Friday, September 7, 2012

Fishing at Salmon Falls Creek Reservior





Jackpot, NV: The Truck Stop For All Your Adventures (Along with Elko, Wells, Carlin, Winnemucca, and Battle Mountain). Some info about Salmon Falls, Its long, fifteen miles, its narrow and its famous for Walleye. I'm not talking good for Idaho, I'm talking Minnesota good. It also has  brown trout, chinook salmon,kokanne salmon  (landlocked sockeye), Yellow Perch, Black Crappie, Channel Catfish, and is a very good smallmouth bass fishery. Water is often extremely cold until june or so then it warms up from the southern end. My go-to bait there was a tube, but I had a few hits on Wordens Rooster tails. I think they were walleye's but it may have been a trout or kokanne. My dad caught the first bass ever, His first fish in Idaho and the first fish that either of us had caught at the reservior. I saw lots of people trolling and jigging from boats. After that I was using a rattlin' Rapala in size 05 chrome blue color. I a huge three pound smallie casting along the shoreline. After that I hooked two more smallmouths but they threw the hook. Then, I decided to cast far out, and because it was windy, I knew I was going to get a walleye. On the third cast I got the fish and after I landed him  he cut the lure off and fell back into the water. I jumped in to get him and got lucky. I brought him to my dad who took a few pictures and then released him. After that we left. 
   I can't wait until I get a boat and catch kokanne by trolling.

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