View Full Version : Siltcoos Lake Info---PLEASE!!! 'o'
Kaptn Ken
03-21-2009, 11:53 AM
Has anyone fished Siltcoos Lake recently, for warm water fish, or TROUT either? I'm going trout fishing April 2nd thru the 5th there but I want to throw some plugs, Rapala's and crankbaits into the weed beds also. Just wondering if anyone has spent some "Quality Time" there recently and could pass some info on. Like: "Who, What, Where, WHY? and How" along to me, and my friend George, who has never been fishing there before for trout, or bass either!!!
:thisbig:Thanks in advance!:thisbig:
I'll check iFish later tonight!
Kaptn Ken
Nehalem, OR
I read your post on the trout fishing forum and decided to answer here. If you are staying at Ada, troll for trout from the "stump" south along the east side of Weber Island, cross to Rocky Point, and north along the east side of Booth Island. Youu can see the stump from the dock at Ada.
It's a little early for perch, as August and September are probably the best months. They haven't been biting to well over the last few years. Try anchoring between Rocky Point and Weber Island and you could pick up some nice trout while trying to get the perch to bite. Tasty fish!!!
There are a lot of good bass fishing areas along the shoreline in Fiddle Creek arm. Go under the railroad trestle.
Hope this helps, good luck, and let us know how you did.
BassinFever
03-21-2009, 04:37 PM
IMHO Siltcoos is DEAD for anything but trout anymore, JMHO!!!!!!!
IMHO Siltcoos is DEAD for anything but trout anymore, JMHO!!!!!!!
For sure for sure.....Been going there in September for the last ten years and last year you'd be hard pressed to catch 3 eating sized perch all day. If you look at the trout plants into Siltcoos you'll see they only put a couple thousand in there, where they put something like 15,000 in little Cleawox, and many also go into other small lakes in the area. Do check th planting schedule, you may want to explore some of the other small lakes for some bank fishing. Trout fishing can still be good at Siltcoos, try wind drifting with a sinker on the bottom and a worm off a dropper a foot up or so. There's a good population of native cutthroat in there, and we've caught holdover rainbows to 5lbs. Casting Kastmasters and trolling Roostertails has payed off for people. On a glassy morning you can cast a worm towards rising fish and get bit.
I do have hope for Siltcoos as last year there were literaly millions of small perch near the shore weeds and under the lights a Westlake Resort after dark. For the past two years we've just trailered the boat each day up to Woahink or down to Takenich(sp), both lakes hold trout and perch. Woahink is a vastly different animal from Siltcoos for perch, you're really going to need a good fish finder to locate perch there. Takenich fishes mostly like Siltcoos for perch, and there's trout there too, and a bonus....cat fish! Next year I'm going to try to figure the cats out a bit more, they were big enough that two of them made a meal for the wife and I, and they tasted better than the farm raised store bought.
As far as bass go IMO, Siltcoos has always been one of the tougher bass lakes on the coast. In the last three years the bass have crashed, possibly due to the massive amount of cormoraunts there all year long. I think you'd find that virtualy ALL bass clubs have taken Siltcoos off their lists for tourneys. If you do happen to catch bass please release them.
I'm curious where you're staying?
Have fun down there, that place maybe my most favorite place on earth!
Smj
Kaptn Ken
03-24-2009, 11:54 AM
I read your post on the trout fishing forum and decided to answer here. If you are staying at Ada, troll for trout from the "stump" south along the east side of Weber Island, cross to Rocky Point, and north along the east side of Booth Island. Youu can see the stump from the dock at Ada.
It's a little early for perch, as August and September are probably the best months. They haven't been biting to well over the last few years. Try anchoring between Rocky Point and Weber Island and you could pick up some nice trout while trying to get the perch to bite. Tasty fish!!!
There are a lot of good bass fishing areas along the shoreline in Fiddle Creek arm. Go under the railroad trestle.
Hope this helps, good luck, and let us know how you did.
Thanks! I have the time so I'll check it all out!
Ken
Kaptn Ken
03-24-2009, 11:56 AM
IMHO Siltcoos is DEAD for anything but trout anymore, JMHO!!!!!!!
Well, I'm heading there basically for the trout. Years ago we couldn't keep the crappies off the hook. Been awhile (5-6 years) Sorry, I'm not up on the IMHO & JMHO thingies! :passout: Old Age is hell!
Ken
Kaptn Ken
03-24-2009, 12:05 PM
For sure for sure.....Been going there in September for the last ten years and last year you'd be hard pressed to catch 3 eating sized perch all day. If you look at the trout plants into Siltcoos you'll see they only put a couple thousand in there, where they put something like 15,000 in little Cleawox, and many also go into other small lakes in the area. Do check th planting schedule, you may want to explore some of the other small lakes for some bank fishing. Trout fishing can still be good at Siltcoos, try wind drifting with a sinker on the bottom and a worm off a dropper a foot up or so. There's a good population of native cutthroat in there, and we've caught holdover rainbows to 5lbs. Casting Kastmasters and trolling Roostertails has payed off for people. On a glassy morning you can cast a worm towards rising fish and get bit.
I do have hope for Siltcoos as last year there were literaly millions of small perch near the shore weeds and under the lights a Westlake Resort after dark. For the past two years we've just trailered the boat each day up to Woahink or down to Takenich(sp), both lakes hold trout and perch. Woahink is a vastly different animal from Siltcoos for perch, you're really going to need a good fish finder to locate perch there. Takenich fishes mostly like Siltcoos for perch, and there's trout there too, and a bonus....cat fish! Next year I'm going to try to figure the cats out a bit more, they were big enough that two of them made a meal for the wife and I, and they tasted better than the farm raised store bought.
As far as bass go IMO, Siltcoos has always been one of the tougher bass lakes on the coast. In the last three years the bass have crashed, possibly due to the massive amount of cormoraunts there all year long. I think you'd find that virtualy ALL bass clubs have taken Siltcoos off their lists for tourneys. If you do happen to catch bass please release them.
I'm curious where you're staying?
Have fun down there, that place maybe my most favorite place on earth!
Smj
Thanks for the informative update. I guess "The Good Ol' Days," are definately a thing of the past. Keeps happening! Sad! We're staying at Ada Resort with my motor home and boat: www.adaresort.com (http://www.adaresort.com) They're on the SouthEasterly edge of Siltcoos Lake and they are "REASONABLE" and QUIET! It's been 5-7 years since I fished SIltcoos hard, and even then, I didn't fish it hard. The fish used to come to me...I don't like "Planters" but what choice do we have these days? We'll most likely just troll SLOW and find a good edge to anchor and toss out our Power Bait to float 22" off the bottom...Worked before, but...???
I'll post photo's, "IF" I get anything worth photographing!!!
Later,
Ken
IMHO:In My Honest Opinion, and of course JMHO: Just My Honest Opinion, and: JMO Just My Opinion....LOL.
Have fun down there Ken. The owner at Ada is fairly new, maybe four years? There was a write-up in the local paper about him and the resort. We drove over there last September just for the heck of it and the place was a ghost town. The place didn't look to inviting, with scary signs all over so we didn't even pull in. The poor perch fishing has taken it's toll I suppose. Up untill a couple of years ago there used to be quit a few people that would be out on the lake from there, and quit a few boats moored there. Nightengales, and Darling's to a lesser degree have appeared to be suffering too. I've never been there during peak summer season so I don't lnow how they do then, but there's sure not the people in the resorts or on the lake like there were say 5 years ago in September.
Oh, try trolling Dick Nites or Needle Fish with just a leader, swivel and a 1/8-1/4oz egg sinker above the swivel.
Smj
Regardless of the recent poor perch fishing, have a great time and nail some trout. I agree with what SMJ says as he is one of us Siltcoos Lake veterans. I have always trolled either a Doc Shelton spinner with a worm about 18 inches back or a white and red F-4 flatfish with no weight. I have also done well trolling rooster tails when the trout are rising and even have picked up perch doing this. If all else fails, there is always the Beachcomber in Florence. Good luck and have fun.
Oh yeah, where did you catch the crappie a few years back?
rwr...I haven't ever seen a crappie out of Siltcoos, exept on the board at Westlake, but I don't fish for them either. The stories usally go that the crappie were caught in super secret locations, (under the tressels).
I kinda' figured Kens recolection goes like mine as I've aged: When I used to say a few years in my 30s, ends up being more like ten years now!
Smj
I know the feeling with old age creeping up on me. I have only seen one bucket full of crappies come into Westlake Resort and that was years ago. They caught them in the reeds across from Goat Island off of the point where the boy scout camp is. Way back in the 70's, we would catch a few on the Westlake dock at night - but nothing to brag about.