03-18-2004, 02:43 PM
I live close to Aurora and fish it alot. I have found I catch alot more fish there with lures than bait, (of course I tend to fish lures almost exclusively). Aurora is loaded with Spottail Shiners and the trout really seem to key on them sometimes. Right now the water is low also, so traditional dropoffs don't exist.
I would follow the bicycle path around to the east side of the lake and just slowly fish all the way into the back cove. I like to use a silver/blue 1/8 oz Kastmaster and just search for them. Don't reel them in straight! Snap jig them back and you will catch trout and Perch. Once the water gets warm and you start to see clouds of small shiners in the shallows, try to fish there in the evenings. Sometimes those bigger trout come in shallow and you can actually see them hunting those shiners. I like to use a 1/8 oz Vibrax minnow in the silver shiner color and reel fast enough to keep it running over the top of the weeds. I have had several 15 fish nights doing this there. By the way that also works well at Spinney, up in the mountains.
If you like to flyfish, use a strike indicator and a #14 Chrononimid (midge) nymph, in black or red. Cast your flyline out as far as possible and slowly strip it back. If that doesn't work, add a couple of split shot to your leader and just let the wind drift the fly back to you.
They put smallmouths in there a few years ago and they are really starting to take hold. I caught about a half dozen last summer in the Marina Cove on jigs.
The walleye are a mystery there to me? Have never caught one, but then I fish from shore there and i think they stay out in fairly deep water during the day?
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I would follow the bicycle path around to the east side of the lake and just slowly fish all the way into the back cove. I like to use a silver/blue 1/8 oz Kastmaster and just search for them. Don't reel them in straight! Snap jig them back and you will catch trout and Perch. Once the water gets warm and you start to see clouds of small shiners in the shallows, try to fish there in the evenings. Sometimes those bigger trout come in shallow and you can actually see them hunting those shiners. I like to use a 1/8 oz Vibrax minnow in the silver shiner color and reel fast enough to keep it running over the top of the weeds. I have had several 15 fish nights doing this there. By the way that also works well at Spinney, up in the mountains.
If you like to flyfish, use a strike indicator and a #14 Chrononimid (midge) nymph, in black or red. Cast your flyline out as far as possible and slowly strip it back. If that doesn't work, add a couple of split shot to your leader and just let the wind drift the fly back to you.
They put smallmouths in there a few years ago and they are really starting to take hold. I caught about a half dozen last summer in the Marina Cove on jigs.
The walleye are a mystery there to me? Have never caught one, but then I fish from shore there and i think they stay out in fairly deep water during the day?
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