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Offline SLAYERFISH

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Fontenelle ?'s.
« on: Feb 13, 2009, 08:45 AM »
Hello experts-  We're gonna float the green below the res in april.   But we are gonna stay at the lake and hope to catch some brownies.  Also is there walleye in Fontenelle?  It looks walleye-ish. Cant find much info. Thanx, Mike.
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Re: Fontenelle ?'s.
« Reply #1 on: Feb 13, 2009, 10:08 AM »
No walleye in Fontenelle, anyways there better not be.  It was a great trout fishery, used to produce some 5 lb browns in the spring when the ice went out.  Now with the illegal stocking of ling it's kinda going down hill.  But none the less good place to catch a big brown or rainbow.  Good luck below the dam!  Used to be some pigs in that stretch of river, it's been 10 years since I have fished it.
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Re: Fontenelle ?'s.
« Reply #2 on: Feb 13, 2009, 07:34 PM »
Browns, rainbows, cutthroats and cutbows, lake trout, smallmouth bass, ling, carp. Fontenelle and the Green are awesome fisheries. I don't get a chance to fish either much but know that there are good fish in both.
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Re: Fontenelle ?'s.
« Reply #3 on: Feb 13, 2009, 07:43 PM »
Thanx, guys.  Should be a blast.  Area looks to be under-utilized. Middle of freeking nowhere!  I love that kinda place! ;D ;D
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Re: Fontenelle ?'s.
« Reply #4 on: Feb 13, 2009, 09:34 PM »
Where you from Slayer? Be prepaired for wind....
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Re: Fontenelle ?'s.
« Reply #5 on: Feb 14, 2009, 08:32 PM »
Quote from: er-e-is on Feb 13, 2009, 09:34 PM
Where you from Slayer? Be prepaired for wind....

Colorado.  I've bought a WYO license every year since 1973.  I know wind.  We have a 16' 3-man pontoon with a 3 hp outboard for those windy days! ;D
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Re: Fontenelle ?'s.
« Reply #6 on: Feb 14, 2009, 08:40 PM »
The Slayer is tough, he has braved the howling, screaming-like-a-banshee winds and sand dunes of Boysen Reservoir!  :roflmao:  :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :thumbsup: LT/ISM
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Re: Fontenelle ?'s.
« Reply #7 on: Feb 14, 2009, 10:09 PM »
One of the scariest trips I've ever had was on Boysen. 14' alum fishing boat 5'-6' rollers or so it seemed. Land never felt so good as it did that day.
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Re: Fontenelle ?'s.
« Reply #8 on: Feb 14, 2009, 10:14 PM »
Had me spooked out on a stormy day in a 17 ft Searay with a 130 Chevy inboard, 5' cappers, yeah, glad to get that sucker back on the trailer  :woot:         Don
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Re: Fontenelle ?'s.
« Reply #9 on: Feb 15, 2009, 01:12 AM »
one of the days i was fishing when i was little we were hitting the prop on the bottom in 12 feet of water after getting caught in a sudden storm on boysen. that place can get scary really fast!
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Re: Fontenelle ?'s.
« Reply #10 on: Feb 15, 2009, 08:47 AM »
Fontenell Reservoir gets very little fishing pressure, and can be great for browns, rainbows Kokanee and smallmouth. 

The river below the dam is a great fishery, but it gets a surprising amount of angling pressure for being out in the middle of nowhere (it is really not that far from Rock Springs). On weekends in the spring there will be people all over, many with quads.  I even saw a guy ride his ATV out into the river and cast from it!!!  What a knob!!

As you get further downstream from the dam, the fishing pressure declines...
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Re: Fontenelle ?'s.
« Reply #11 on: Feb 15, 2009, 09:08 AM »
April, there might still be Ice on the lake....
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Re: Fontenelle ?'s.
« Reply #12 on: Feb 17, 2009, 08:57 AM »
Quote from: er-e-is on Feb 15, 2009, 09:08 AM
April, there might still be Ice on the lake....

Half-frozen would be the perfect scenario! ;D
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