The East is now down to about 1080 cfs, still pretty fast but we are getting more and more reports each week from anglers fishing down there and having some success. If you search out the softer water and fish the edges you can have some pretty good days, mostly with streamers from what we’ve been hearing. We’ve had reports of some good browns and rainbows, some taping up into the mid 20’s. Most of the anglers we’ve been talking to haven’t really been doing much wading, mostly fishing from the bank or getting in just a little ways. As the snow continues to melt we hope/expect the flows to start to come down at some point.

 

We haven’ t had anyone on the ranch lately, hopefully when the flows come down at some point we will have some good reports for you.

 

The pond fished excellent this week! We had several clients on the water this week that all had a great time, most of the action was on leech patterns like Mayers Mini Leeches, simi seal leeches, zach attack damsels, as well as soft hackles and pt droppers. We didn’t hear any reports of stillwater nymphing but that technique should still be in the playbook. Below is a drone photo from yesterday of the pond courtesy of Travis Rice, it’s a pretty awesome and unique spot! Give is a call if you want to book some time on the pond, have your float tube and fly rod ready for some good action!

 

The Reservoir has really livened up over the past couple weeks, lots of good action both trolling and still fishing. They’re still catching good numbers of fish from the shore and the boat fishing has gotten much better lately. There are lots of smaller fish being caught with some good fish up to nearly 6 pounds in the mix. Trolling has been good with Speedy Shiners, Rapalas, Thomas Bouyants, Crawlers and Tazmanian Devils. The bait anglers are having success with inflated crawlers, power bait, mice tails and pinched crawlers. The level of the lake has come up considerably and the folks down at Bridgeport Marina have been able to get their docks in the water and are fully operational with boat rentals, launching and slips available! Things are really looking up for the Reservoir and I think it’s gonna have a pretty good run for a while!

 

We didn’t hear much news from Kirman this week, I know there’s been some anglers heading up there but they’re just not talking! I gotta believe the fishing is probably still pretty good up there, scud and leech patterns should do the trick, as well as some stillwater nymphing with scud, zebra midges, rojo midges and the like.

 

The Twins are still kicking out some very nice fish as well as a ton of Kokanee lately! There have been fish up to nearly 7 pounds in the last few days that we’ve heard of. Trolling has been good with Rapalas, Thomas Bouyants, Kastmasters and Wedding Rings, bait angling has been good with Power Bait, Mice Tails, pinched crawlers and inflated crawlers. The shore anglers are also doing well still casting lures like Hook Up Baits, Kastmasters and Thomas bouyants in the early part of the day then switching to baits like power bait and mice tails during mid day.

 

We haven’t heard any rumblings about the West lately, the water is very high and off color so it will likely be difficult to fish for a while. We’ll let you know when the conditions improve.

 

It sounds like Little Virginia has almost completely thawed out and the fishing up there is pretty good! Big Virginia and Trumbull are still iced over at this time, we hear it’s supposed to get pretty warm around here this week so they might be thawed by next weekend, fingers crossed. The float tubers on Little V have been doing the best, flipping mini jigs like Hook Up Baits and Sierra Slammers has been very successful, as well as floating crawlers and mice tails.

 

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The Bridgeport Fish Enhancement Foundation’s annual fishing tournament was held yesterday and was a great success! There were over 100 anglers participating and there were lots of nice fish brought in to weigh from all over the area. The biggest fish of the tournament was a 6.75lb rainbow from Lower Twin Lake and the young lady that took the honors for the largest fish in the Junior category was Mila Koczur of Roseville, CA with a 4lb 3oz rainbow from Bridgeport Reservoir. The BFEF also put on a great dinner with lots of raffle prizes given away afterwards. Mark your calendar for the weekend after Fathers Day next year if you’d like to participate in this great, fun for the whole family, event!

 

The 4th of July is coming up fast! This year marks 161 years of Bridgeport’s 4th of July Celebration! Lots of great stuff going on from Saturday July 1 through Tuesday July 4th including Arts & Craft festival, book sale, live music, trap shoots, Ranch Rodeo, Horseshoe tournaments, parade and fireworks just to name a few! Come out with the whole family to help us celebrate!