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Hayden Fishing Reports

By: HookdUp
Posted: 4/2/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Ramp is flooded and it is not easy to launch without help. The water is only about 39 degrees on the surface. The fishing was consistent and I was fortunate enough to find fish and continually hit 2...
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By: Conradlam
Posted: 4/1/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/1/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water early after reading the latest reports. We headed up lake from the Honeysuckle launch. This launch is under water with all the recent rains and snow melt. Come prepared with 14" boots...
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Posted: 3/28/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/27/2017
Hot Spots: 0
Started trolling up the lake from Honeysuckle at 10:30. We had 4 lines in the water, 2 on the downriggers and two surface lines 100ft out the back of the boat. All lines had dodgers or blades with hoo...
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Posted: 3/26/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/26/2017
Hot Spots: 0
We went out to Hayden Lake for the fist time this year after seeing the ice was off the lake earlier this week. Had lines in the water at 3pm and trolled straight up the lake from Honeysuckle boat lau...
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By: linty
Posted: 3/12/2017
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 1
Fished: 3/11/2017
Hot Spots: 1
Just a condition report - lake is still iced over, some of the ice near shore has broken up a re-frozen - several folks still out ice fishing NE of the city launch
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By: manukabay
Posted: 8/5/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/4/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water at 11am and off at 6pm after boating the 15th keeper. Released probably a dozen or so. Pretty much the same presentation as my last two Hayden reports - a red wedding ring on one pole...
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By: manukabay
Posted: 7/31/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/29/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got out of work early on Friday and hit Hayden Lake again. Fished from about 11:00 to 6:00, caught probably 30 or so, and kept 15 which is the limit. The keepers were pretty much in the 13-16" range. ...
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By: manukabay
Posted: 7/24/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 7/23/2016
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water at about 10:30am. Bit of a zoo at the boat ramp as usual when you're launching that late on a Saturday, but I managed. I started out just south of Yellowstone point, trolled north ...
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Posted: 6/13/2016
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/6/2016
Hot Spots: 1
Couldn't go all the way to Roosevelt today, but had the kokanee fever real bad. Made a morning trip over to Hayden, launched @0400 and had lines in and fishing 30 mins later. Water was glass and a lig...
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By: AJ's Dad
Posted: 3/13/2016
Species: Crappie
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/11/2016
Hot Spots: 1
I selected crappie for the targeted species because that's what we had success catching. We headed to Hayden hoping to find some active pike in shallow bays. After a few hours efforts, and only seeing...
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By: manukabay
Posted: 8/8/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 2
Fished: 8/7/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Fished from about 10am until 5ish. It was a tough day, I couldn't seem to figure out what they wanted. Everything seemed to work mediocre, nothing was really banging them. Occasionally I'd find a scho...
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By: manukabay
Posted: 8/3/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 8/2/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water at about 9:00 and fished all day. Boated more than 20 I'm sure, but only 8 of them were big. Released all but 5 of the smaller fish, kept those 5 because it didn't look like they were...
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By: manukabay
Posted: 7/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water at 9am. Went several places where we got fish last time out, but nothing marked and no bites. Didn't get the first fish until about 10:30. Proceeded to Yellowstone point and it picked...
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By: linty
Posted: 7/4/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/3/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Hit the water at about 6 AM. Lots of trailers in the Sportsman Access parking lot - and lots of weeds from the lake. Started trolling in about 170 FOW by Yellowstone point. Water was 76 degrees on top...
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By: manukabay
Posted: 6/25/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/24/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Got on the water about 10. Our first visit ever to the lake. A guy on the dock was pulling out, said he was fishing all morning and it was slow. But we had our first hit (in the bay not far from the H...
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Posted: 6/5/2015
Species: Largemouth Bass
Rating: 4
Fished: 6/4/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Had a really good day on Hayden even though the Spawn has been over for a couple weeks. Water temps in the low to mid 70's in the shallow parts of the lake we fished. Most of our fish came on Senko ba...
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Posted: 4/12/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 4/10/2015
Hot Spots: 0
My friend Mark asked for a re-match to go to Hayden and give the Kokanee a whirl. I watched the weather reports for Saturday and they did not look too good. Rain and wind in the AM with wind increas...
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By: Jipper
Posted: 3/23/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 2/22/2015
Hot Spots: 2
Went to Hayden for a few hours Sunday night before the rain forced us to load up. I Picked up some new stuff from the big horn sportsman show at the Mack's lures booth. Fish at 35' with pink hoochie a...
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Posted: 3/10/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/7/2015
Hot Spots: 1
Fished all day, many boats on the water. Started slow, green was a flop. Tied on blue squid / sling blade dodger and started getting bites in the 35 -60 ft range in the main lake ( deep water) and it ...
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Posted: 3/9/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 3/8/2015
Hot Spots: 0
Tried Hayden yesterday in with a buddy. First boat at the launch but we were just the first of MANY. Fished until around 4 and over the course of the day there was at least 40 boats on the water and m...
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By: Jipper
Posted: 3/7/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 3/7/2015
Hot Spots: 3
Arrived at Hayden lake today for the first time to try some kokanee fishing. saw the last report and decided that it would be worth it. kokanee are all over fished 20 to 40 ft deep with dodger and gre...
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Posted: 3/1/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 5
Fished: 3/1/2015
Hot Spots: 3
30 fer 38 14-60 feet green wedding rings n corn.
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Posted: 2/14/2015
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 2/14/2015
Hot Spots: 0
First of all many thanks to SsendaM (Brian) for taking me out today. We have been wanting to get together since last year and finally made it happen. Got the lines in about 8:30, it was in the upp...
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Posted: 6/8/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 3
Fished: 6/7/2014
Hot Spots: 0
I and friend Scott fished Hayden for the first time (mine). We got a late start because Scott had to get a fishing license at WM. First step was to find somebody who knew how to sell it to him. S...
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Posted: 4/29/2014
Species: Kokanee
Rating: 4
Fished: 4/27/2014
Hot Spots: 0
Fourth and final day of fishing at Hayden for this round (sniffle). I had been riding pretty high off my limited out day so I slept in again and shot for the 10:00 bite (It was also forecast to snow/...
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