Butt Lake Report 4/19

Got up at 4:15 this morn and made breakfast and some coffee. Weather report said windy with this storm coming in tonite, so I figured I'd better get out there early and off the water before noon .  Got the kayak in the water and was shoving off at 545. Tied on a brown trout pattern broken back Rapala, and started trolling 150' - 200' back. Water was 52 degress and a nice green tinge. First hit 10 minutes into it and put a small feisty brown in the boat.

Got my brown pattern Rapala's hooks caught in the net, so I unhooked it, and tied on a black over silver 4" broken back Rapala. From then on it was one fish after the other. 14- 18" rainbows. Most of them spit out smelt after being caught. Saved a couple bleeders for crawdad bait later this week.  Most fish were caught in 8' to 13' feet of water, near the rocks before it dropped off into 17-23'.

Headed back to the ramp at 11:00 and hooked fish number 17 300 yards from the ramp. back in my driveway at 11:47. Nice morning!

Thanks for the report!

Thanks for the report.  I’m heading to Almanor mid week and maybe now I’ll spend some time at Butt.

Nice work. Many I miss Butt Lake. Any idea how Buck's is doing?

From what I hear Mid May til the road opens up, were about 3 weeks behind up here for everything right now.