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By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/2/1999
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/2/1999
Hot Spots: 0
Headed out to Amber at 3:00 Sunday despite the wind and rain and
was really glad I did. Amber is fishing fantastic this year. The average
fish is about 14 to 15 inches and there are lots of them. ...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 6/3/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
A high pressure system moved into to the NW and has brought with it very warm weather and clear skies. Today it reached 88 degrees with a light NE wind. The last week has been warm and the surface ...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 6/9/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/9/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about 11:30. The surface water temperature has gone down 4 degrees in the last week with the cooler weather. Around noon the wind was light and from the s.w. with very little fishin...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 8/7/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/5/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at the lake around 8:30 a.m. and started getting strikes immediately. The surface temperature was 75 degrees with some algae in the water. Very little surface action and fish were at all lev...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 9/4/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/4/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about 10:00 a.m., clear skies with a light s.w. breeze. Daytime high was 84 degrees. The surface temperature was 70 degrees.
The day was productive overall, however it was an on/o...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 9/24/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/23/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Mike Grahm and I got on the water around 10:30 a.m. The morning into the afternoon was perfect with a slight breeze, sunny and about 70 degrees. The water temperature had cooled down to 62 degrees o...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 10/7/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2007
Hot Spots: 0
The weather and water temperatures have changed dramatically in the last couple of weeks. Fall is definitely here. Today the water temperature on the surface was 55 degrees, down 4 degrees in the la...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 10/27/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/27/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Four days until Halloween and the frost is definitely on the pumpkin. It was 26 degrees this morning at 6:30. After it warmed up a bit, I met Dave and Mike on the lake around noon. With clear skies...
By: the_trout_bum
Posted: 3/18/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/18/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got there around two, and first cast had a 14" bow on. Second cast, another, but it rolled the hook on me. Wind was up for awhile and it got kinda slow, but once the sun started going down the bite...
By: FISHWHENICAN
Posted: 3/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
great day at amber. very slow at first pulling around different buggers and nymphs. only caught one and had one other strike. started using a black sliver bead head midge size 16 and it turned on abo...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 4/11/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
My partner and I arrived at about 0945. Mostly sunny with winds from the south at 10-15 MPH. Surface water temp still very low, 41 degrees. We headed south and fished the flats. In five hours of f...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 5/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/2/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Partner and I linked up at Amber at 0945. Finally, my first day minus snow flurries, sleet, or heavy cold winds! Initially fished the south end shallows. Very few takes on chironomid pattern so I s...
By: 509Fisher
Posted: 5/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/10/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at Amber around 10 a.m. The weather was excellent (mid 60's) with a slight overcast. My set up was a Type 3 sink line with a 12 foot furled leader and tippet(4X). The fly of choice was a si...
By: ruthven78
Posted: 5/18/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I hate giving this late a 2 but I only caught one fish the entire time I was on the lake so instead I'm giving it a 3 (see below). From what Marc was saying they were down deep and hitting slow green...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 5/18/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/17/2008
Hot Spots: 0
It was a good day in many ways. Met several friends at the lake around 8:30 a.m. Lotech Joe and ruthven78 were there trying their new pontoon boats for the first time. The weather was warm, around ...
By: Rooscooter
Posted: 5/31/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/31/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I took my business partner to Amber for his first try at fly fishing this morning.
We got on the water by 8:00am and began to get strikes immediately. We were using a variant of an Olive Willie ...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 6/10/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water around 10:00 a.m. The water was clear with the surface temperature at 59 degrees. The air temperature was around 60 degrees, with a moderate wind from the south west. After a bit...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 6/15/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 0930. Moved to deep water immediately across from the launch and anchored down. Started with a still water nymph fished vertically on type VI sinking line. Got a few bumps but no takes....
By: Rooscooter
Posted: 6/15/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I got to Amber about 7:30 am. The lake was calm and about 67° at the surface. Fish were rising just about everywhere.
I began with a brown dry pattern to match the hatch. This produced 4 fish, t...
By: dbk
Posted: 6/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I hit the lake this morning around 9 with a buddy of mine- conditions were far from ideal: little to no wind, very calm/flat surface with no character, bright blue sky and a high sun. We both began t...
By: raffensg64
Posted: 6/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
15 rainbows and a few cutthroat today for my partner and I while fishing from 9:00 to 2:00. Sun was high and bright, winds were calm, with temps in mid-80s. Surface water temp 70. Those caught were...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 6/28/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water around 8 a.m. and headed to the north end of the lake. There was a moderate N.E. wind in the morning gusting to about 15 mph. Several fish were marked at about 25', just above the t...
By: Marc Martyn
Posted: 7/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Dennis and I met Mike at the lake around 9:00 a.m. and joined up on the water. The day was clear, high of 88 degrees with a light SW wind 5-10 mph. The surface temperature ranged from 70-74 degrees ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/5/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Bob, my father-in-law, and I went to Amber Lake for the evening. We arrived around 5pm and fished until dark. The weather has been cool the last 2-3 weeks, and we found that the fishing was still good...
By: spoolguy
Posted: 8/8/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/8/2008
Hot Spots: 0
This report is from last Sunday the 3rd. Hit the lake around noon, fished until 5:00 or so. It was without a doubt the best day this year on amber. One type of fly, one color and one fishing method. S...
