so after work i wanted to go out to east canyon for some late evening/night fishing. I got to the lake at about 6 and didnt get set up til about 6:30. I was fishing in about 45 fow and had the fish finder set up. As soon as i dropped my line in fish came out of nowhere and were all over the screen. next thing i know both of my poles were hitting the water. I managed to hook both of them at the same time and reel in one with the other between my legs. First fish of the night was about a 10 in bow. Once i brought him up i reeled in my other pole and to my surprise It was a HUGE crappie..( 13 in crappie is big for me) I didnt even know there were crappie in there. I had action all night between 20 and 35 fow and also caught one more small crappie. I wish i had pictures i could post but I only had my phone with me. I caught 10 trout and 2 crappie in about an hour in a half biggest was that crappie at 13" nothing but small bows for the trout. It was pretty fun but scary in the pitch black out there with only a lantern. Im just glad I caught some fish at that time of night.
Now you done it! Good job.
Some other fish You mibht not know about a couple of these. Black Crappie, Kokanee salmon, splake trout, Bonneville cutthroat trout, rainbow trout, brown trout, tiger trout.(there might be more, i think there is one more species) I have known about the crappie for a while
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I had no idea there that many species of fish in East Canyon. That makes it even more of a fun place to fish!
Add Smallmouth bass to the list
yeah they tried about everything in that lake at one time or another. mostly just holdovers let other then the trout of all species.
Alot of those are bucket biologist plants. SMB & Crappie are both via the bucket route. East Canyon was one of the water that DWR was using as a brood for Kokes, but that got pretty much destroyed by the illeagle intros !! when I mean brood, they collected eggs and milt to hatch out and restock in other areas.
But Cliff said the DNR planted the bass[:/]. A couple of years back, one of the members reported finding dead baby channel cat along the shore there but I’ve never heard of anyone catching any.
Cliff was there when it happened. Just ask him about it.
Did you guys know he fishes with Mojo lures and weights?
crappies have been in there for at least 10 years caught em in o2 dont know about the bass