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Well, what do you do if you just want to go fish for a couple of hours in the rain in the Chelan Valley? Go to little Roses Lake. The ice has been off for about a week now. The fishing is red hot. We trolled a variety of flies with an 1/8th ounce slip sinker in front of a small wiggle fin. The most successful over all was a 1/0 beadhead wooly bugger with that 1/8 ounce bullet sinker rattling in front of the little/clear wiggle fin. We also cast and trolled 1/8th and 1/4 ounce Roostertails in both Black and Green. Getting a couple of guys with 2 rod licenses can be an absolute blast! There were 3 triples and many, many doubles. We used speeds of 1.7 to 2.5 mph to trigger a combination of Tiger and Rainbow Trout. Those Tigers aren't as acrobatic as the Rainbows, but they do pull harder. The biggest Tiger was 18" and just under 2 pounds. We started calling the 'bows mini-marlin. Most of the rainbows are about 12" long, but, they are very chunky. Try trolling an ultra-lite with either a small spinner or that fly combo. You really get the most out of them. We kept one five fish limit of a combo of the tigers and a couple of 'bows that were bleeding and not releasable. They make a great lunch. We released about 30 fish in the 2.5 hours that we were out. What a great fishery this is.

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Jordan

3/3/2010 7:14:00 PM

When did they start putting Tiger's in Roses? I thought they only put them in little dry lake? Are they going to put them in Wapato also?

Darrell and Dad's

3/3/2010 7:19:00 PM

They put some in last year as an experiment. They wanted to see if they would grow and prosper. They had some concern that the Dry Lake plantings weren't working properly. The Tiger trout had become become thin in Dry Lake. Two of the three that we caught in Roses today looked great. Smallest of the three looked like it's head was a bit too big for it's body. Anton

MotoBoat

3/3/2010 9:00:00 PM

I can not make out the tiger trout in either picture. I have seen some pictures of tiger trout. Does the picture not do justice to the "tiger"?. Will the tiger trout be planted in Wapato, or Antilon?

CaptainJack

3/3/2010 9:22:00 PM

The single fish is a tiger and also the second and fourth (and fifth?) in the group picture. You can just see that instead of dots they have a wavy line pattern, especially near the tail.

MotoBoat

3/3/2010 11:55:00 PM

CaptainJack, how long will the Roses Lake fishing hold up at this level? Does the fishing pattern change once the first trout plant of the year occurs? I usually visit Roses just before opening day. But am considering a early trip this year. How long has the ice been gone?

Darrell and Dad's

3/4/2010 4:44:00 AM

Last Year the great fishing held up through April. The two years before that, numbers and action held up all the way to the end of June. This year the fish are very healthy looking, fat and spunky.

Lundegard

3/5/2010 7:05:00 PM

While I don't argue the tiger trout are fun to catch, are in-and-of themselves a little intriguing, and probably draw some reasonable interest, I would say that planting them is a mistake. Both Dry and Roses, in 2007 and 2008, were developing nice populations of perch and crappie, and the bluegill weren't far behind. These trout will no doubt be like introducing wolves into sheep country. Large heads with disproportionate bodies is an unmistakable trait of a fish that is way underfed. The Dry Lake plantings didn't work properly because the trout ate more crappie and perch than the lake could sustain. So much for crappie, perch, and bass fishing. Another spiny ray lake succumbs to the almighty dollar produced by the soft, mushy, gray-fleshed stocked rainbow.

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