07-17-2020, 02:20 AM
Today I fished with a co-worker and his 8 yr old grandson. We fished for kokanee out in the boat for a few hours and got 3 kokes and turned back a bunch of cutts. Then things went dead for half hour and the 8 yr old started asking how long before we go home. I suggested we motor down to where horse creek comes in, beach the boat and fish with power bait from shore. In 45 minutes we got 2 decent rainbows and 2 cutts in the slot. I hate catching cutts on bait - had to cut the line just above the hook to let them go. I then put on a fly behind the bubble and got a nice cutt (easily released). This was all between 10 and 11 am, so not bad fishing - the boy even got one on his snoopy pole. The good thing about horse creek is you can park on the road and walk down a trail to the lake - no boat needed. There seemed to be quite a few fish in there and I saw no other shore fishermen/women. This was today (Thursday) so there might be more people there on Saturday. Good luck.