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Somers

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Flaming Gorge Reservoir, WY side
« on: May 05, 2004, 10:26 AM »
Hi.  I will be heading to WY in early June and will be staying in Green River. 

Does anyone have any info on the types of fish/fishing I can expect to find in this lake and what methods to target them? 

I have read online there are lakers, browns, bows, and kokes as well as channel cats and smallies.  What are some of the secrets to tangling w/ these guys?

Thanks in advance.  All responses appreciated.

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Re: Flaming Gorge Reservoir, WY side
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2004, 10:59 AM »
NO one fishing here I guess.  Or maybe not reading this site anyway.

Guess I'll make due.

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Re: Flaming Gorge Reservoir, WY side
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2004, 05:21 PM »
Flaming Gorge is a good fishery for all of the above. If you want to catch lake trout, fish in 40 to 50 foot depths with some structure like rocky riprap, humps, and inside turns. Use 4 inch tube jigs fished on heavy heads and tip them with sucker or anchovy.
Shallower rocky areas are filled with chunky smallmouths. Use lipless cranks, jigheads and twistertails, soft jerbaits, diving cranks, and topwaters in the evenings. Just be careful fishing for smallies, cause rainbows and browns also inhabit the smallie habitat, and they are can break off your bass lures easily unless you loosen the drag.
The rainbow and browns like bait, but shallow trolling rapalas or spoons, or casting shoreline rocks and points will get you into plenty.
If you fish catfish, fish inlet areas in the afternoons and evenings with chicken liver, worms, or cut baitfish.

Tyler

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Re: Flaming Gorge Reservoir, WY side
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2004, 10:57 AM »
Awsome info.  Thanks Tyler.

Any info on the Kokes.  Never fished them before.

TroutFishingBear

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Re: Flaming Gorge Reservoir, WY side
« Reply #4 on: Sep 16, 2004, 12:12 AM »
sounds like a great fishery. How did you do somers?

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Re: Flaming Gorge Reservoir, WY side
« Reply #5 on: Apr 13, 2005, 10:52 AM »
Sorry for the delay TFB.  Never dawned on me to check back on this forum lol.

We did OK I guess.  We had some action anyway.  Started off targeting kokes in the am the first day.  Ended up with 4.  We tossed back a little guy and kept the 2-3lb fish for the table.  The winner in that category went 4.5lbs if I recall correctly.

We then changed tactics and tried for some larger trout.  We caught a few bows maybe 3-4lbs and a couple of lakers, but nothing large enough to qualify.  The largest laker was around 7-8lbs.  I think the winner was over 20.

The 2nd day, we tried for smallies and browns.  Never did connect on a brown and I think the winner was about 7lb.  Smallies we got into were all midgets, largest maybe a pound.  The winner was just over 4lb.  The back arms we tried were too cold I guess to get anything going size wise.

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Re: Flaming Gorge Reservoir, WY side
« Reply #6 on: Apr 11, 2007, 02:48 PM »
any new word on how the open water fishing is going down there, people? :azn:
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Re: Flaming Gorge Reservoir, WY side
« Reply #7 on: Apr 11, 2007, 02:52 PM »
this was caught at the gorge this last ice-season by a guy on iceshanty

32 lbs --  i wanna see more - post your pics, guys
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Re: Flaming Gorge Reservoir, WY side
« Reply #8 on: Apr 11, 2007, 03:35 PM »
WOW, Nice fish :o :o :o
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