Green Peter Reports
August 18, 1997
Ken, his son, and I met at the dam Sunday morning with worms, corn and buzzbombs
hoping for better results. Well, my battery for my fishing finder went dead
so we really never knew how many fish were around. But like the battery the
fishing was pretty much dead. We each caught two. Small schools seemed to move
though during the morning, but the bite was very very light. Another boat using
bombs and corn pick-up two each I think. I left at 11:30 and head back to break
camp with the family. Later that day on the way home I stopped and fished just
up from the island for 1.5 hours. I caught two, lost 4 at the boat, and a bunch
of bites. I was using my home made wind trolling down rigger and a wedding ring
with corn. The fish were smaller than the ones at the dam, only 8 inches.
This report submitted by Brian Russell
August 8-12, 1997
I went back up to Green Peter with a friend from work Tuesday the 12th. We
arrived at the dam and were on the water at 6 am. We looked around the dam where
I marked all the fish the Friday before, but none were to be found and the wind
was blowing. We headed up the lake to the first big point on the left where
I have marked fish before. There were some fish so we wind trolled missing several
bites. We checked by the dam again and still no fish so back we went the point.
More fish showed up but were not on the bite. I switched over to a silver superduper
and caught one right a way. The wind died at 10:30 so I switched to the red
buzzbomb and caught another. We went back to the dam and saw some fish. We parked
by two other boats and one fellow was getting bites every 5 minutes and we were
getting none. The difference? He had worms and we had none. He had 6 inches
of line below a 2 inch buzzbomb with a single hook with a big piece of nightcrawler
and corn. Just dropped it to 48 feet and let it sit. Next time I am bringing
worms. We left with 2 fish but the one fellow had 7 and was still catching them
when we had to leave at 11:30.
This report submitted by Brian Russell
August 6-8, 1997
My wife and I boat camped at Green Peter last Wed.- Fri.. In short I trolled
the first two days up from the island with very poor results. I was trying a
home made down rigger for wind trolling. I have an old penn reel with heavy
line mounted on the butt end of a rod that was broke and to which is attached
a 8 ounce banana weight and my flasher. The release is at the end of the flasher
so my line with the wedding ring runs behind my flashers. Wed. night the only
two fish I picked up was using this set-up. I seemed to work well enough for
my uses and it is cheap. Thursday was a bust. I trolled through bunches of fish
with only a hand full of bites to show for it. I was discouraged by Fri. so
I got up early and motored the half hour it takes me to get to the dam from
where we were camped. I have yet to catch a Kokanee with a jig and seeing the
lack of wind I put on a red buzz bomb with corn. First drop I caught a fish.
It is so nice to catch these fish without flashers interfearing with the fight.
The second drop I pick up another fish and was going nuts. After that I could
only hook two more and landed one of them. However, I was getting hits every
drop for about half an hour. Then the jigging devil, the wind arrived, and I
could not hold position and the fish scattered and went off the bite. Three
fish in about fifteen minutes on my little 4 1/2 foot ultralite was the most
fun I have had Kokanee fishing.
This report submitted by Brian Russell
August 8, 1997
Decided to save a little money and go to Green Peter today. I started by
the dam at 7:00 am. By 7:30 I had lost one and caught one. The police moved
in then and kicked us all out of that area so they could do a search for a missing
man. So I headed up to the island and trolled around there till 9:00 am. I caught
5 more and lost a couple. The size of the fish was so discouraging I packed
it up and headed home after a swim. The biggest of the six caught was probably
around 8 inches. I'll probably head for Odell lake next week.
This report submitted by Robert Nolan
July 21, 1997
Took the family boat camping to Green Peter this weekend. I took Friday off
and headed up the lake, set up camp and headed out to fish at 4 PM. I started
out fishing across the lake from Whitcomb creek boat launch. In the first half
hour I landed four fish wind trolling using either a wedding ring with a gold
blade augmented with flavored corn and a potski egg, or a white superduper and
corn. Then the bite slowed and I marked fewer fish. I fished until 7 and had
several more strikes but no fish. The fish were small ( 9), but fat, like the
ones I caught at Odell lake.
I took the day off from fishing Saturday and only fished the evening for one
hour with just a single strike. Sunday morning at 8 am I headed down the lake
and marked a lot of fish just down from reference 3. I caught one fish on my
first pass with a wedding ring (nickel blade) with corn and an egg. I went back
up wind and headed back though the same spot, but the fish had moved. Fished
the rest of the day at various times and places and had several strikes with
the superduper, but no more fish.
I marked many more fish this trip. They were between 36 and 58 feet with most
at 47. The fish were full of feed so maybe by the end of the season the fish
will gain some size.
This report submitted by Brian Russell
July 14, 1997
My wife and I headed up to Green Peter Sunday to look for boat camping sites.
We spent most of the afternoon motoring around the lake. I was running fish
finder so when we were finish lookin around I would go back and fish the area
where I marked the most fish. Well, I just did not mark that many fish. I did
find some on the other side of the lake across from the island. The ones I did
mark were between 32 and 42 feet so it seems that the lake is starting to stratify.
I 1.5 hours of fishing I did not get one bite. :(
This report submitted by Brian Russell
June 25, 1997
A friend and I launched his jet sled near the dam on Saturday the 21st. After
riding around for what seemed like hours and still not finding any fish on the
finder we slowed down near a land slide with some submurged trees. I had a second
pole with me that still was rigged with a spinner bait so I launched a cast
into an opening between some submerged trees. I nailed a largemouth immediately
then we headed back towards the damn and dropped anchor and waited for the fish
to find us. Several small schools came through anywhere from 30-70 feet deep.
His son had one on (fishing buzz bombs) that got off but that was it. We were
also victims of the most torrential downpour of rain that I have ever experienced
in my 23 years in Oregon. Maybe next time. However I might go strickly for bass
on the next trip. We also had several really nice trout following our lures
right up against the dam.
This report submitted by elcurte
June 23, 1997
Three of us went to the bridge to try our luck with the Kokanee. After fishing
for several hours (started at about 6:30am), and missing a couple of strikes,
I finally set the hook into a real nice fat 16" sucker fish... Boy what
disappointment! Left for home around noon without a single fish between the
three of us. I did talk to some people in a boat, who relayed back that the
fish were about 25' down and really scattered around (no big schools). They
had a couple, but nothing big or great. Apparently when the weather warms up
a little, these fish must move out to the deeper water???
This report submitted by Brad Dixon
June 9, 1997
A friend from work and I, ventured up to Green Peter Sunday the 8th of June.
We arrived at noon and motored around the coner from the Withcomb boat launch.
We started to mark lots of fish, all at 100 to 116 feet deep. We put out wedding
rings with flashers long lining using 1/2 ounce weights and wind trolling. In
the first five minutes, Ken hooked and landed a nice fish, about 11.5 inches.
We were ready to catch our limits after that. However, that was it for the day.
Not even another bite and we fished until 6pm. All the fish we marked were down
near the bottum, and we marked alot of fish. We were not able to get down to
100 feet, but did get our gear caught on the bottum between 60 and 70 feet,
so were were getting down a fair ways. The good sized fish is incouraging. Maybe
this year will be better than the last.
russellb@ava.bcc.orst.edu
This report submitted by Brian Russell
May 14, 1997
Al and I went up to GreenPeter on Sunday afternoon and came home Wednesday
am. The weather was great, but that's all I can say for the trip. The folks
on the bridge were catching fish hand over fist. They were terribly small. I
trolled Whitcomb Creek and picked up a few small ones. I picked up a few up
at the dam trolling and also a few scattered between Thistle creek and Whitcomb
Creek. Nobody was having much luck with the exception of the bridge folks. There
were a lot of us fishing up there, but no one I talked to did much. No one had
any fish of any size either. It was a really disappointing trip. We had planned
to come home later in the week, but it just didn't seem worthwhile fishing for
those little bitty fish not that anybody was catching many of them either. For
anyone who camps a Whitcomb, the campground and boat ramp are now open. They
have redone some of it and installed restrooms there similar to the one at Thistle
creek. I'm going to give it a couple of weeks and try again. If it isn't any
better then, I may have to find another place to fish. What a shame.
This report submitted by Mary Jarrott
April 28, 1997
We stopped by GreenPeter on the way home(From Suttle Lake) and after looking
around for quite some time looking for a good marking of fish, we finally found
one. The large school was located along the shore just around the corner from
the Whitcomb creek boat lanch (ref 4). I was getting lots of bites using a home
made wedding ring type spinner that had a yellow body with pink spots. We only
landed one, a very small one, before the wind picked up and cooled off. That
was too much for Jill so we head home with a fish dinner for Jill (My Daughter).
This report submitted by Brian Russell
April 17, 1997
I fished Green Peter yesterday 4-16-97 and wanted to give you an update of
fishing there. I talked with a fisherman casting from the shore by the Thistle
Creek boat ramp who told me that 10,000 trout were stocked last week. Sure enough,
we got into the planters right away fishing in one of the side inlets in the
Thistle Creek arm. Everything we did worked on the planters. We trolled with
flashers and corn and caught fish. We used green power bait and that worked.
And in the afternoon the fish came for spinners quite well. We got our limits
(now 5 each) for the three of us in the boat and decided to head out for kokanee.
As you know, the kokanee limit is now 25 fish in addition to the trout limit.
No fish were turning up on the fish finder so I assume they must have been in
the top 20 feet of water. We trolled and trolled with our typical flasher and
Super Duper and corn setup but had no hits whatsover. After hearing Sep Hendricksen's
seminar at the Eugene Sportsman Show I tried side planing off to the side of
the boat to try and avoid the "scatter effect" of kokanee as the boat
passes over them, but no success this time. I used a Luhr Jensen side planer
which did a credible job of pulling off to the side of the boat.
There still is a fair amount of debris on the reservoir, but not as bad as last
year. We found significant stretches of open water so had enjoyable boating.
I'm hoping this will be a better year for kokanee up there but we'll have to
wait and see.
This report submitted by Dan Meyers
April 17, 1997
I decided to put the boat in and work the bugs out while the weather was
good. I really didn't intend to do much fishing. But when I saw the screen light
up on the fishfinder I thought perhaps I should give it a bit of a try. I was
where the logs used to be by the dam. After many times back and forth, jigging,
adjusting lures and speed, I was just about ready to give up when a 8"
hatchery trout comitted suicide on my lure. Can't figure out why they think
we want to catch 8" fish. What a waste of money. So I left the spot wondering
if the fish on the finder were a bunch of dumb hatchery trout. They were only
down about 12 feet and right in the middle. I left hoping for something better
up the lake. The debris was really bad everywhere I went. So it was slow going.
I went real slow under fisherman's bridge and hardly marked a thing on the finder.
Talked to a few other fisherman who were having similar results. There were
a few fish caught, but the bite was sporadic. I hate to say it was slow because
if I do someone will go up and catch 25. But, for me it was slow
This report submitted by Robert Nolan
March 27, 1997
On the morning of 3-25-97. I picked up 3 trolling red w\orange blades wedding
rings, tipped w\corn. I got 7 more jigging over large pockets of suspended fish
using crippled herring jig tipped w\corn. Normaly I don't share my trips with
alot of fishermen but the fishery at Green Peter needs to be harvested so there
is less fish for the amount of food available. Rasing the limit to 25 will help.
This report submitted by John E. Mason
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