can a guy do any shore fishing here ? i got chest waders if needed but just wondering how the general shore line is ?

Got out for a few afternoon hours, slow day with few hits and fewer seen on camera...just about asleep when wham biggest rainbow trout I ever pulled through the ice chose me, great fight with long runs till I made worjk harder by quickly tightening the drag...19.5 inch long and 12 inch girth brute...made my day and season...10-12 inches ice, trucks on ice

Ice Report: 7 in
6-7 inches as of today

2 beauty rainbow in a little over an hour. 8-10’ of water
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Ran into some elitist fly fishermen on Sunday. Apparently they owned the whole south end of the lake even tho only indicator fishing 20' in front of their boat, but heaven forbid you got within 100' to change trolling directions to avoid them. Truth be told they anchored in my intended trolling path I should have been the one asked no them to fish elsewhere.

Disgusting black spot parasite. One bow I kept so full of black spots I would not eat it. I heard it's harmless if properly cooked but ruined the apatite.

Fished Two days only pulling up 1 decent Tiger. Marked only a few fish the entire time very slow fished from 6-14 FOW

Ice Report: 16 in

12-14 inches of ice. Caught 4 bows and 1 tiger, all fish had the black spot parasite on the fins, skin and in the flesh.

15 were tiger trout around 12 inch. Seem more aggressive than Bows

Fished from boat . Caught about 20

where is lower chain lakes

Anyone have an update on the Ice conditions?

15 bows and tigers. Big ones bit 9-10
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Lower Chain Lakes now has tiger trout! I was using raw shrimp pieces on a small yellow jig hook. Set up was very close to the bottom at a depth of 10 feet. Caught 16 rainbows and 2 tigers. The tigers were each 11 inches long. Released per the ACA and ERSD request.

Is it worth going to or should I look elsewhere

Ice Report: 18 in

Fish are diseased and full of bumps. Looks like warts, sounds like parasites are getting to them. Good fishing but won't eat them.

Anyone ever get pike out of here been fishing it for years but never got one

Hammered 7 Rainbow Trout in this area..
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No gas motors allowed
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Any one know how the snow and ice is on the lake?

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Ice Report: 6 in
Solid clear ice, little snow

Lower Chain Lake has a great campground.

Is there a campground at either of the Chain Lakes??or is the nearest at Island Lake??THX

Has anyone been out here lately? With all the rain I would really like to know how the roads are; I would like to bring my trailer, but want to make sure I can make it.

Not sure if this lake has pike I never caught any fishing here for years

Was out this past weekend was out for 4 hours in two days got about 25 in the boat between the two of us not a bad trip for being on the water not long

Last time I saw salvelinus fontinalus it was the Latin name for brook trout. Can you recheck your sources papa fish

Ice is 21 inches thick, fishing good for Rainbow Trout. 12 feet of water with Jackfish Lures Wire Worms. Landed 5 great fish put back all but 1. Spent 21/2 hours out on lake. Saw lots on camera.

Fishing was good today, got 1 three pound rainbow. Put back a bunch of smaller trout. Wire worms (JackfishLure) brand, loaded with maggots or trout worm was the ticket today.

Caught 4 nice Rainbow, lost a bigger one. Wire worms with pink maggots worked very well. Ice is 12 inches. And a little bit of overflow.

Ice was about 12". Tried a couple spots lots of fish swimming by. Only managed to catch small ones. Most luck in 8 ft of water

Ice was 12 inches thick as of Saturday December 15. Fishing was fair also.

Anyone know the ice thickness?

was out this weekend that just passed with my buddy and his kid wwe managed to get 16 in an hour or so a couple of two ponders.

Caught 7 smallish rainbows after 3.5 hours, and kept a couple. After cleaning the fish I noticed black spots in the flesh. Found out it is a parasite-salvelinus fontinalis. They grow into worms when eaten by a loon, and live inside the loons mouth. I could handle probably a few that could be cut out, but these parasites are fairly wide spread. They are deep in the flesh, on the scales, imbedded in the fins...Yucky:( Kind of takes the fun out of a good day of fishing. Too bad, it's a real nice lake and fishing is typically good. Will have to be catch and release for my future trips until this problem goes away!

was out a couple a weeks ago got at least 50 in two hours. was using black and yellow panther marten. great day of fishing for rainbow. And if you go about 4km up the road and down the bush road upper is good for pike and perch.

July 20/2012: Only one on the lake this day. Nice little lake for float tube and spent a few hours nymph fishing. Fish were rising nicely early in the morning, calm and wind did pick up. Trout were biting on Muddler Minnows and bead head nymphs. Worm flies were working well also. Fishing from shore, it looks like folks were using marshmallows, cheese and other types of baits by observing some "shoreline refuse". Nice park with campground area; great beach for kids on a hot day.

Fished today out by the beaver dam and limited out in less then two hours. Between the two of us caught like 16, had fun catch and releasing. Only a couple smaller ones rest of them 1.5lbs to 3lbs!

Fished last Sunday by the beaver dam and caught 13 trout. One 3lb, two 2lb and the rest 1lb to 1.5lb. Ice was close to three feet thick. Was an excellent day.

Fished for 6 hours today, between the two of us caught six. Four over 12" and two smaller ones. Fish were moving pretty slow, maybe due to the extremely high winds. No snow on the ice, 16" thick. Can't wait for the next trip out there!

hook off a pickerel rig...extended leader 2 feet using worm and marshmallow

what do you use for bait/hook? Lookin to take my kids out for their first fish!!

Caught our limit by 11am from shore. One 2lb'er!!