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By: AmyE
Posted: 5/15/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/15/2014
Hot Spots: 3
As close to a perfect day as we could ask for. Perch and Blue Gill were biting good on chartreuse and black "Crappie Magnet" crank baits, with the occasional Crappie thrown in for variety. Nothing kee...
By: CommanderCrud
Posted: 5/11/2014
Species: Other
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/10/2014
Hot Spots: 0
On the water around 7am had no luck with anything until around 11am. I boated one LM around 2 pounds and my buddy caught two LM with the combined weight appx. 3/4 pound heh. Awful.
By: Pat Perez
Posted: 5/8/2014
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Great evening of fishing on Silver Lake. The weather was perfect with little wind (a rarity on the West Plains). Got on the water around 3:30 PM and headed South. Water Temp said 64 degrees (Not sure ...
By: Nproph17
Posted: 4/9/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 4/9/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to silver today(after failing at liberty I tried it) but had no luck! I could see the perch but they just weren't biting! And anyways they were only interested in movement of my worm... Wait ...
By: tyler_niles_15
Posted: 2/15/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/15/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Got to lake around 11:00. I caught 16 smaller sized perch. I was using worms and perch eyes. The ice was about 8 to 9 inches thick. Fishing Was good but around 1:00 it started raining and fishing slow...
By: jalent19
Posted: 1/19/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/18/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Decided to hit the ice for a quick afternoon bite. Ice was about 5-7inches thick near the public launch... Got thinner the more south you headed. I fished a hole in about 30 feet of water. Caught a fe...
By: dluders
Posted: 1/4/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 1/4/2014
Hot Spots: 1
Around 11 AM, I got onto the 6"-thick ice at Silver Lake. There was one icefisherman (in a collapsible shelter) straight out from the Public Fishing dock on the northwest corner of the lake. I drill...
Posted: 1/1/2014
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/1/2014
Hot Spots: 0
My wife and I took out 4 of our kids and we all caught fish but they were all very tiny. They were mostly only about 3 inches long. We were using cast masters, and small silver and gold spoons with m...
By: Jay K
Posted: 12/16/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 5
Fished: 12/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from 1000-1400 in depths of 20' to 35' with an average of 4" of clear ice.
Drilled about 8 holes moving from shallow to deeper water. Fish found in every hole, but dinks abounded in 20'-25'...
By: Kfedka
Posted: 12/9/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/7/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Silver on Saturday afternoon from 2:30-4:30pm. Bite was very hot from 3-4pm and were catching as quick as you could drop your line to the bottom. I've been ice fishing the lake for about 5 yea...
By: Jay K
Posted: 12/8/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 12/8/2013
Hot Spots: 0
As mentioned in the Ice Reports thread, 3-4" clear ice north end over 20-25' of water. Open water over depths of 40'.
Half a dozen fisherman on the lake, but it was dink city and the bad news were...
By: 1996Monark
Posted: 10/8/2013
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/6/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Friend of mine and I went out to Silver to try fishing for Rainbow. I had never been on the lake and he had been one time so we wanted to try something new. We fished Lake Roosevelt Saturday with on...
By: CCTMark
Posted: 10/7/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
With all of the cold water carp reports on here I thought I should add one for the warm water fishermen. Hit Silver on Saturday afternoon. The day was warm with almost no wind and I know this type of ...
By: CCTMark
Posted: 9/1/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/31/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Our goal was to catch a tiger but we were unable to. We had one blow up on a top water but that was it. It was still too dark to see what size it was but the splash definitely made my daughter jump wh...
By: CCTMark
Posted: 8/18/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/17/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at O dark thirty in search of large mouth on top waters. That didn't pan out so I started targeting the tigers. The first hit I had was from a tiger that looked to be about 24 in he missed my...
By: CommanderCrud
Posted: 8/5/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/28/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water around 6am. We were mainly targeting LM and in the 6 hours we were out there we landed none. About an hour into the trip the lady hooked into an appx. 30" Muskie (our first ever exp...
By: CCTMark
Posted: 8/3/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/3/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Launched at 0500 and had the lake to myself. Started off with a buzzbait and began to work the western shoreline heading south. Caught 17 bass, 15 on the buzzbait and two on a tube. Most fish were in ...
By: Pat Perez
Posted: 7/26/2013
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/14/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Sorry for the late report, but I thought it was worthy enough to submit, even almost two weeks later. I started fishing around 4:30 AM targeting bass in the shallows with some sucess as I boated a 3 p...
By: xxWalleyeManxx
Posted: 5/25/2013
Species: Crappie
Rating: 2
Fished: 5/25/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I spent the late afternoon and early evening at Silver Lake. I fished a variety of crank baits with no luck. I was fishing in depths between 5' and 30'. I was trying to catch crappie and perch. I fina...
By: Walleye Chief
Posted: 5/22/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/21/2013
Hot Spots: 3
Nailed about 20 perch in less than 2 hours on the water before the weather started getting bad. Used a jig head with a twister tail tipped with worm or power bait and a stick bobber. Was a great day...
By: dougw
Posted: 5/6/2013
Species: Tiger Muskie
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/5/2013
Hot Spots: 0
Game on folks! Started the season off with this 40.5" fish. Saw one other and know of several others that were seen over the last several days. Water temps are 55-57 on Silver and climbing. Likel...
By: DaveF
Posted: 2/16/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/16/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I fished from 8am to 3pm cutting holes all over the north end of lake. I caught 9 by noon with another 4 by 3pm....I ended up with 7 keepers. Most of my action was in 30' to 40' of water. I used a hoo...
By: fowl_language
Posted: 2/4/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/2/2013
Hot Spots: 1
Went to silver after a failed trip at sprague earlier in the day. Went out to about 20 feet of water and caught some fish. Average fish size is still small but getting better than it was a few years...
By: spokanarama
Posted: 1/23/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 1
Fished: 1/23/2013
Hot Spots: 0
It's great being out on the ice, but another tough day of fishing at Silver. Thought that with the approaching change of weather, I might have a little more luck here. Had one bite. It was a light one...
By: steel_lee
Posted: 1/21/2013
Species: Perch
Rating: 2
Fished: 1/21/2013
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at 7:30am. I followed a group of 2 out onto the ice as i did not have a good idea about were to fish. I followed them out about 200yds. and stopped there to fish, the 2 guys kept going? Made...
