Westside Lake Fish Report 07-11-07

Westside Lakes


by Kaufman Streamborn
7-11-2007
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The recent heat-wave means that summer has come to shut down the lowland-lake trout options.?? Though some lakes provide depth to the extent that trout can gain relief (appropriate oxygen levels), wrestling the fish through the warmer, oxygen-depleted top layer of water can prove decidedly lethal.?? Hope for an early fall!

To keep the Stillwater love alive, seek the relief of elevation, as in go-Alpine.?? Leech at White Pass is surely popular and prolific and only just starting to get going.?? Coldwater and Merrill (Hexagenias due very soon!) to the south are excellent mid-summer destinations as well.?? And of course, there's countless other higher-elevation lakes, drive-to or hike-to, with trout in need of furthering their education.?? Given more time, consider Hosmer and others in Oregon, or a trip north into BC to fish the productive high lakes up that way.




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