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By: shmn
Posted: 5/2/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Me and buddy stopped by during lunch break for less than an hour. About 20 people in the immediate vicinity but we found a decent spot. I was using green Power Bait and my friend was using pink. I ...
By: dsnordby
Posted: 4/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I read Dave's earlier report, and I could swear we were at two different lakes!! We arrived at 9:30am and there were no boats at the boat launch. Got right in the lake, rowed out to our normal spot...
By: Dave
Posted: 4/26/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/26/2009
Hot Spots: 0
I don’t like writing negative reports so please forgive me in advance. I now remember why I don’t like to fish opening day weekend at a newly opened lake. This morning I launched at Heart Lake at abou...
Posted: 4/25/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/25/2009
Hot Spots: 0
Woohoo opening day!
We were on the water by 5:30 and right off the bat started catching fish. The trout were mostly on the top of the water colum. I caught and released more than 40 stockers. and my ...
Posted: 10/21/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 1
Fished: 10/20/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I decided to give heart a try since I've heard a few good reports one of my friends caught 2 off the parking lot. the weather was horrible 15-25 wind and it was cold. I spent lots of my time rigging u...
By: Dave
Posted: 10/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at Heart Lake shortly after 9:00 am. There was one other person at the launch getting ready to fish via float tube. After launching my boat I said hello to the brave fisherman who was about ...
By: SDAngler
Posted: 10/19/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/19/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take another crack at Heart lake in the float tube before the 31st and I am very glad I did. First I would like to say that I finally med a fellow WL.com member, Dave, and had a great time...
By: SDAngler
Posted: 10/15/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 10/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Decided to take advantage of the sunny morning and see if there are any fish left in little heart lake. I started at about 8:30 in my float tube and I was the only one at the lake. It was very cool ...
By: Bscman
Posted: 10/3/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 9/28/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Hit up Heart Lake for a little Sunday afternoon fishing. Got there around 12:30 and fished until 2:00pm.
The lake has some algae, and water clarity is reduced from my last visit a couple months ago...
Posted: 7/1/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/28/2008
Hot Spots: 1
I haven't fished since I was a little boy and never caught anything. My wife and I started to teach ourselves how to fish. I was going out to lakes with nothing but bobbers and nightcrawlers....... ...
By: db77
Posted: 6/15/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/13/2008
Hot Spots: 1
Aside from the wind the evening was great. Fished from 6:30pm to 9:45pm and with three people in the boat we left the lake with 12 Rainbows all 12-14inches. We all trolled Wedding rings slowly with a ...
By: physher92
Posted: 6/4/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/4/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out to heart today to try and get into some stockers. Fishing was relatively slow but did catch a few. Went to a favorite hotspot and caught two on powerbait in about an hour and a half. Then swi...
Posted: 6/4/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/4/2008
Hot Spots: 1
I fished power bait with my friend for about an hour he caught one 14-15in stocker. there was 2 boats which was surprising for such a windy day.
Posted: 6/4/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 6/3/2008
Hot Spots: 1
I fished about from 7 till 9 and finally at the last half our I tried pink power bait and a 2ft leader. I had one bite that took some power bait off my hook then I switched to a smaller hook and bait ...
By: luv2fishwa
Posted: 5/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/26/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went out at about 230pm. Using a bead head, blk, red bodied wooly bugger. Slow trolled. Caught and released about 10 hold overs within 2 hours of fishing. Some what had a overcast, water was calm....
By: Bscman
Posted: 5/15/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/15/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Another great day at Heart Lake.
My brother in law called me up late last night informing me he already had a sitter for his kid, and we'd be leaving *early* in the morning. Well, he showed up at 7...
By: Bscman
Posted: 5/14/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 5/11/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Took my girlfriend out for her first outing of the season...in hopes of catching a few nice rainbows for BBQing.
It turned out to be a great day.
We set up a pair of poles using #8 hooks and 1 1/...
By: flyguy
Posted: 5/7/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/6/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Went to Erie first, poor reports, so scooted over to Heart. Saw a few fish jump and one on from a float tuber. Put the boat in and used the same exact setup I used the previous day at Pine. C&R 1...
By: Dave
Posted: 4/29/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 4/29/2008
Hot Spots: 0
Ok, what was I thinking this morning? As I left for Heart Lake at 4:15 am it was cold and cloudy. The trip is 45 miles one way for me. By the time I reached I-5 in Mount Vernon it was 38 degrees and a...
By: Demonknight
Posted: 4/28/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
After not catching anything on opening day (to many people, to few spots to fish from) , I decided to wait until afternoon on Sunday. Fewer people, but still only one or two spots open for me and my s...
By: Dave
Posted: 4/28/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/27/2008
Hot Spots: 0
I arrived at Heart Lake at 5:30 pm to fish the evening. There were about 15 to 20 boats on the water and several fishing from the bank. No major wind issues, cloudy and overcast, air temp was 61 degre...
Posted: 4/27/2008
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2008
Hot Spots: 1
well I went to heart for opening day and caught 20+ stockers. I really tried for a holdover but what the hell nothing to complain about!
They pretty much hit anything but I had best luck using a jo...
By: kkleparek
Posted: 6/24/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2007
Hot Spots: 0
I took my son to the lake for some fishing. There were quite a few people on the shore, and one boat. We were there from about 12:30 to 3:00 and we didn't get a nibble. We didn't see anyone else ca...
By: steve
Posted: 6/14/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/14/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Made my first trip to Heart Lake today, based on the reports I'd read here. I can say it was nearly as good as advertised. I only fished for a couple of hrs, (8-10, but landed 3 very nice fish (14")...
By: flyguy
Posted: 6/8/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/7/2007
Hot Spots: 0
First time on Heart Lake, it was a beautiful setting. it was windy, with the water temperature at 63 degrees. Arrive about 8:30 and had my first fish within 2 minutes. Trolling a green bugger with f...
