Heading up for the bow trout

[PhishingPhreek]

Heading up to Woods Canyon and Willow Springs until Monday! WHOO HOO!!!   
If anyone else will be up there, I'll be off Rd 195. Later!!!!

[AZfisherdude]

  Let's see them when you get back I loves me some trout fishing!

[Piscolli]

Good luck Phreek, holla when you get back.

[Fishless]

take your own rock , fishing is great at woods canyon butttt buddy was there two weeks ago on a saturday and turned around and went back to camp, had to park 1/4 mile away on forest road and then when they walked into lake there was literally only 4' between people on the entire shore of the lake , he went back sunday with his son and it was only half full and they killed the trout .

have fun be safe.

[Fish Hawk]

I think I'm going up to Willow Spring this weekend. I'll just be there fishing, not camping

[Fishless]

I am going up to start a rock consession , will rent one to a person to use at the lake then they must return it , have fun guys I will be watching on state route 87

[crappie adventure]

i was up there with PhishingPhreek today i caught 3 trout there was to meany people so i left

[PhishingPhreek]

My family ended up with 45+ trout for the weekend we were up there. I think I was more than half of them though. Saw the bald eagles again, and those are some of the biggest, most coordinated 4 week olds I've ever seen!

The bite for trout in the boat was great... however, connecting and keeping them was a different story. I had 3 times as many hits as I got fish in the boat. I couldn't connect with anything! I was slow trolling "Joe's Flies" about 6"-2' feet below the surface. I kept the trolling motor on speed 1 or 2 (depending on the wind). I would occasionally bring it up to 3 and slow down shortly because the trout were hitting the most when I would change speeds.

On a side "fun" note. I managed to get one of the Joe's Flies stuck in my finger barb deep. I tried to pull it out at the lake, but it wasn't budging. So I stayed out and fished for another 4 hours with the fly deep in my finger. Walked back to camp, drank a flask of Jeager and had my RN mom dig around the hook with a needle and after an hour of digging, soaking, disinfecting and me being pretty drunk, she finally just popped it out of there. That was painful and I hope I never get another hook that deep buried again!