Fished from 1030 to 2 PM. Caught a 10" perch right off the bat, then landed about 15 to 20 trout. All the trout were 8-11" except for a 26" rainbow that weighed 8 pounds. Most action was with a tro...
Arrived at Mineral lake around 900 am, wind was from the south, south west around 5-10 mph. Water temperature was around 72F. Overcast and looked as if it were going to rain...however, it did not...th...
The rod: custom made 7 1/2 ft. 4 weight... The reel: okuma SLV... The line: RIO type 4 sinking... The leader: 7 ft. 5X... The fly: #8 olive wooley bugger with the tail trimmed short... The fish: 8 lb....
Went down to Mineral tor the weekend for opening day this year. woke up at about 6 casted out the powereggs, and immediatly got results. it was fish after fish just on the dock when it finally slow...
Our group of four decided to try Mineral Lake on Sunday, willing to put up with the long launch lines. There must have been a heck of a party Saturday night as there essentially no boats waiting to b...
Sunday we went to Mineral to see how crowded it would be on the day after opening. We were greeted by a Lewis County Sheriff who took the boat through a quick inspection. It was the easiest inspecti...
Well This Is The First Day Of My Four Day Weekend From Work Went Out To Mineral To Try And Catch Some Trout But No Luck. We Were Trolling Using A Bunch Of Different Types Of Trolling Lures And Noth...
Fished Mineral with my son. We were on the lake by 7:00 AM and trolled using wedding rings. My son added a worm to his set-up.. After two hours of no action, I inserted a small dodger ahead of my w...
got out to mineral opening weekend with a buddy. miserable morning dumping rain with small breaks we cought a couple dozen tiny trout (6 inch average). a couple of keepers (2 pounders) and a hawg, i ...
Had fun caught eight and let two go, but I fished shallow and my brother fished about eighteen feet deep. We both used pop gear, went around the lake twice then the wind finally picked up. Started tro...
Trolling again, My friends son caught a 16in rainbow, and he caught a 12in himself
I however caught nothing, fish just were not striking my line as hard as thiers.
Late post, however definately worth mentioning. Hit Mineral @ 6am and fished till 2pm. Caught alll our limits... (8) My boat faired well trolling frog crocs and cha-cha squidders (pink/orange/purple)...
Hit the lake for the opener. Landed a 16+ incher in the first few minutes. Then had some small bites and fish. Little slower than a normal opener. But had a good time.
Went to Mineral for the annual derby. Took a friend that has only fly fished in the past and tried to get him on some fish trolling. Got an early start and had action pretty steady until about 9 am. S...
Got to the lake around 7am and trolled until around 11am, when the rains began.
Three of us got a total of 4 fish, losing 4-5 more. Fish ranged in size from about 10.5" to 12.5".
Success with bo...
Took the inlaws out fishing. First setup was we anchored down about 50 feet off the boat house still fishing. Wife had a worm and pink power egg and she caught the first fish of the day. I used pink g...
I have heard about the 10lb trout in this lake since I was a kid and have always wanted to fish it but never have. So after 20+ years I finally took the trip down with my boy to give it a try. The l...
Our oldest grandson had an extra day of Memorial Day vacation so my wife and I took him to Mineral Lake where he caught his 1st fish with us several years ago. He is old enough now to be self suffici...
I couldn't get the boy to get up early with me so I was on my own. I got to the dock by 6 hoping to be on the water shortly after they open at 7. I started casting various lures with no luck. Two g...
Woke the boy up early to be to the lake before 7am. The forecast called for showers but it ended up being dry all morning. We started trolling through an area I had found to have large fish on the f...
Got on the lake about 6:00 am and trolled up the left side about 3/4 the way and did not get a hit. I was using a chrome 6" dodger and a Rapala 2 1/2" minnow. I changed to a 1 1/2" plastic crayfish an...
I took two friends out fishing who had not been fishing in over 20 years. We were on the water shortly after 7 and the water was as smooth as glass with fog shrouding the lake and blocking the sun. ...
Started trolling about 6:00 am and caught 4 in 45 mins. released all. Caught and released a total of 12 and kept 5 by 11:00 am all 12-14 inch. Used 6 inch watermelon dodger and a gulp worm on one rod ...