Captain Lake (Soldier Lakes), ID
SE side and below cliff
Outing Information
- Date
- Start/End Time
- 12:00pm to 6:00pm
- Best Fishing Time
- -
- Rating
- Great
- Classification
- Public
- Water Temp
- -
- Water Clarity
- Clear - 5'+ visibility
- Water Level
- -
- User
- Jason Hansen
Fish Caught
Cutthroat Trout
| Caught | Avg Size | Pattern | Optional Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15" | #10 Pheasant Tail Flashback BH |
Time Caught: early Retrieve: sinking line/slow retrieve |
| 5 | 15" | #14 Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear BH |
Retrieve: Hang and Bob, bottom fly, 6' |
| 1 | 16" | #14 Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear BH |
Retrieve: Hang and Bob, bottom fly, 6' |
| 6 | 11" | #14 Gold Ribbed Hare's Ear BH |
Retrieve: Hang and Bob, bottom fly, 6' |
| 1 | 14" | #14 Pheasant Tail BH |
Retrieve: Hang and Bob, middle fly, 3' |
| 4 | 11" | #10 Stimulator |
Retrieve: Hang and Bob |
| 18 | 12.78" |
Weather
| Skies | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunny | X | ||
| Precipitation | |||
| None | X | X | |
| Wind | |||
| Very Light - <5 knots | X | ||
| Light - 5 to 10 knots | X | X | |
| Medium - 10 to 15 knots | X |
- Air Temp High/Low
- 75.0°F / 55.0°F
- Wind Direction
- -
- Weather Front
- -
- Barometer
- -
- Moon Phase
- 41% Full (Waxing crescent)
Other Patterns Tried
No other pattern information for this outing.
Hatches
No hatch information for this outing.
Insect Seining
No seining information for this outing.
Fishing Partners
Karl SlothWaypoints
No waypoints were saved with this outing.
Notes
Karl, Bryce and I returned to Captain Lake Sunday morning. I started off with the sinking line/slow retrieve searching method with the pheasant tail and caught one 15” cutthroat. As it got a bit windy and fish seemed to be cruising through the same zone offshore every few minutes, I switched to the Hang and Bob with a BH Pheasant Tail 3’ down and a BH Hare’s Ear 5’ down. What an exciting technique! I caught 12 fish on the Hang and Bob, 11 of them on the bottom fly. It was fascinating watching a fish enter your field of vision, then swim close to your fly because it was bobbing through their cruising lane. Because of the depth of the fly, depth of the fish, and wind, you weren’t sure if they hit it or not. This forced you to sit there and often, about one second later, the Stimulator would dip under and the fish would be hooked. Very fun to watch. Another benefit to this method is the fly closes their mouth on the fly and sucks the indicator under, so the hook set ratio is much higher versus a slow or medium retrieve where there are many missed hook sets.
In the evening I caught 4 cutthroats using the Hang and Bob, but all 4 fish hit the Stimulator on top. It was windier from a storm moving in and the fish were actively hitting the surface. I caught 2 of the fish on the Stimulator, but missed the hook set on the 2 others. In those cases, the fly line was pulled through their mouth until the dropper pheasant tail hooked them. It confused me at first that I just had a hit on the Stimulator but instead hooked them on the dropper, but made sense after giving it some thought.