Mormon Reservoir, ID
Outing Information
- Date
- Start/End Time
- 3:00pm to 6:00pm
- Best Fishing Time
- -
- Rating
- Poor
- Classification
- Public
- Water Temp
- 48.0°F
- Water Clarity
- Stained - 1' to 3' visibility
- Water Level
- -
- User
- Jason Hansen
Pictures
Fish Caught
Rainbow Trout
Caught | Avg Size | Pattern | Optional Fields |
---|---|---|---|
0 | 0" | ||
0 | 0" |
Weather
Skies | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
---|---|---|---|
Cloudy | X | ||
Precipitation | |||
None | X | ||
Rain - Light | X | ||
Wind | |||
Very Light - <5 knots | X | ||
Medium - 10 to 15 knots | X |
- Air Temp High/Low
- 50.0°F / 42.0°F
- Wind Direction
- -
- Weather Front
- -
- Barometer
- -
- Moon Phase
- 65% Full (Waning gibbous)
Other Patterns Tried
- #10 Brown Mohair Leech
- #14 Red Copper John
- #12 Black California Leech
- #10 Light Olive Stayner Ducktail
- #18 Griffith Gnat
- #14 Black Disco Zebra Midgeling
Hatches
- #16-#20 black Midge Diptera
Insect Seining
No seining information for this outing.
Fishing Partners
No fishing partners were saved with this outing.
Waypoints
No waypoints were saved with this outing.
Notes
A few days ago, weather.com said the forecast for Boise for the weekend was: 78F, sunny, and breezy for Saturday, and 75F, partly cloudy, and calm Sunday. I figured I'd fish on Sunday because of the wind. Ha! It was raining when I left Boise and rained for most of the way up to Little Camas Reservoir. I drove around Little Camas for a bit but it was real cold, sprinkling, and blowing pretty hard, so I decided to head on to Mormon to check it out. Huh, same thing when I got there. I sat in the car eating my lunch for 20 minutes trying to decide if I wanted to expend the effort to assemble the pontoon boat and fight the winds. I finally decided to try fishing. Huh. I trolled for the better part of the 3 hours I fished and never came close to getting a hit. I did find a small little cove that had a 10-15' high hill on one side of it blocking the wind, and there were some little fish (not sure what kind) rising to midges buzzing along the surface. I switched to my 3wt with a Griffiths Gnat and a zebra mideling dropper and had nothing close to anything. I took the midgeling off and tried skating the GG across the surface to mimic the naturals and nothing. Not the trip I was hoping for. It was quite cold.
On the drive home I did see 3 hawks perched on telephone poles. By far the highlight of the day.