Karen and I decided to check out Cow Lake the other day. They stock so many trout in Cow Lake and we wanted to see if they were catchable or not! Well it was a beautiful day with a "chinook arch" stretching across the western sky. The water temperature was 61 to 63 degrees. Not bad. We looked for trout in all the usual places that we have caught them before. We only caught pike. We set up with Tokaryk Specials. There was about 2 feet of visibility in Cow Lake. We fished undercuts, deflections, etc. We hooked lots of pike but not a single trout. The pike are in great condition too.
We were not surprised by the result but disappointed that after stocking the lake with over 50 000 trout, rarely results in catching them. Hmmm, no wonder the pike are fat and happy!
Three years ago the trout fishing at Cow Lake was amazing. The trout had over wintered several years and they were big. I hope that will happen again. Cow Lake is such a fertile lake although it is shallow and often winter kills.
Go to Cow Lake and strip some streamers. Take some time to try for trout but be mainly ready to chase pike. They are lots of fun on a fly rod!
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