Horsethief Reservoir, ID
Started at King's Point
Outing Information
- Date
- Start/End Time
- 5:00pm to 7:30pm
- Best Fishing Time
- -
- Rating
- Poor
- Classification
- Public
- Water Temp
- -
- Water Clarity
- -
- Water Level
- -
- User
- Jason Hansen
Fish Caught
Rainbow Trout
| Caught | Avg Size | Pattern | Optional Fields |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6" | #16 Pheasant Tail |
Retrieve: Trolling Notes: Dropper off a #12 PT |
| 1 | 6" |
Weather
| Skies | Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mostly Sunny | X | ||
| Precipitation | |||
| None | X | ||
| Wind | |||
| None | X | ||
| Very Light - <5 knots | X | ||
| Light - 5 to 10 knots | X |
- Air Temp High/Low
- 65.0°F / -
- Wind Direction
- -
- Weather Front
- -
- Barometer
- -
- Moon Phase
- 88% Full (Waxing gibbous)
Other Patterns Tried
- Rollover Scud
- #10 Black Mohair Leech
- #12 Pheasant Tail
Hatches
- #12 Zebra abdomen, cream thorax Midge Diptera
Insect Seining
No seining information for this outing.
Fishing Partners
No fishing partners were saved with this outing.
Waypoints
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Tides
No tide information was saved with this outing.
Notes
I trolled a mohair leech on a sinking line all the way across the reservoir from King's Point and had zero or 1 hit. I changed to using 2 nymphs and had 1 or 2 hits. I tried the rollover scud with no success. The wind subsided and fish started popping everywhere. They were rising to emergers it looked like - you'd mostly just see their dorsal fins as they took stuff subsurface. There were lots of midges around, but they were pretty cream colored. I switched to my floating line and tried a #18 adams and a #20 griffiths gnat but nothing. I tried a stimulator and nothing. I tried slowly stripping in a #16 pheasant tail and nothing. By this time it was dark so I had a #12 pheasant tail and a #16 pheasant tail on and paddled my way back to my car and caught 1 6" trout on the #16. THAT'S IT.