Silver & Caples

Is there a way to launch a kayak at Silver & Caples for free?

Smokie, at Silver Lake turn right just after the dam into Kit Carson and drive back a little way and there's a parking/picnic area with a little beach we used to put-in our canoe. Further down the same road past the cabins is another beach where you can portage your boat down. Parking can be sparse on weekends.

Caples, pull outs at the east end of the lake just off the highway will allow you to carry your boats down to the water. I remember it being quite rocky walking down to the lake.

Scout it out!

Have fun!
novofish

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Beautiful lake. Early mornings are magical there.....

Didint they drain Caples lake last year? Are there still fish in there?

They drained it,fixed the dam gates, re-filled it and re-stocked it.

There were a lot of larger fish before they drained it.  Most the fish in Caples are your average stockers now.  Used to be a great lake for fish around 5-7  lbs.

They just restocked Caples with trout from 6-15lbs (9000lbs)...has been fishing very well as of late. 

It is an easy portage to the water at Caples now from the east dam.  The late winter weather filled it to the brim!

Didint they drain Caples lake last year? Are there still fish in there?

they did several fish rescues and moved a lot of fish to Silver and Red Lakes last fall.  they were not able to catch many macks because they are deeper water fish and the DFG shock boats could not reach them.  I caught a lot of decent macks, browns, rainbows, and brooks last fall after the fish rescues, just about every trip I had a limit with the above mentioned species of trout.  a good majority of the fish made it through the winter and there are some big fish in that lake still.  they just stocked it several weeks ago with some brood stock and you can see them swimming near the shore often.  these are 10+ lb. bruisers!  finding a place to park can be a major pain on the weekends.  Caples Lake Resort charges 10.00 to launch your yak and park your vehicle in their lot.  Silver Lake is free to park your vehicle and launch your yak.  Caples is 20.00 to launch a power boat and park.  Silver is 10.00 to launch a power boat and park.  they are building a public boat ramp/launch on the east side of Caples lake.  projected opening is september of 09 the last time I heard. 
my son and I were on Silver lake last weekend when it was 100+ degrees in the valley it was a very pleasant 80 at Silver Lake.  I trolled for a bit and only caught one small brown that was a bleeder so I kept it.