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By: kylewag
Posted: 10/25/2016
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 10/22/2016
Hot Spots: 0
I fished this lake from approx. 10:15 am until 5 pm. The best times were from 10:30 until noon and from 3 to 5 pm. I slow-trolled a small black leech, olive leech, olive wooly bugger, and olive willy ...
By: dbk
Posted: 7/15/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 7/13/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Fished Chopaka again on the 13th, this time with my dad. We camped out the night before and hit the lake about 8am hoping for an early bite that we never picked up fishing damsel nymphs/leeches off s...
By: dbk
Posted: 7/9/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 7/5/2012
Hot Spots: 0
I fished Chopaka on the 5th and arrived at the lake a bit after 9am. Winds were intermittent, but very mild and there were damsels hovering iinches over the lake as I was putting in my pontoon, which...
By: dbk
Posted: 5/25/2012
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/25/2012
Hot Spots: 0
Arrived at Chopaka this morning to find a small "city" of people camping there.... lots of people are there, which is not unusual, especially for this time of year. Weather conditions were "interesti...
By: lowvw
Posted: 8/16/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 8/15/2010
Hot Spots: 0
Made the trek over to Chopaka with the goal to get my first fish on a fly. Fished all day Friday and Sat. w/ 27 fish boated. Fish ranged from 5" to 21" with the average fish about 16"-18"-21" fish was...
By: troutmaster666
Posted: 7/8/2010
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 4/26/2010
Hot Spots: 0
First time at chopaka. Fished a black leech with a type 3 sinking line had the leech bumping off the bottom of the south end, got alot of weeds too. Any way caught too many fish to count on 20 peoples...
By: Ganno
Posted: 8/1/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 8/1/2009
Hot Spots: 0
My Dad came out to visit from Florida and wanted to go fishing. I think all my fish storys finally got to him since he has not wet a line in 40 years. Tonasket was in the 100s so I took him up to Ch...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2009
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/29/2009
Hot Spots: 0
We hit the top of the North end of the lake about 7:00 am. Fished floating lines with sink tips tied to carey specials. Landed 4 fish. Threw small damsel flies into the weeds and got another one. Did ...
By: Fish On!
Posted: 9/17/2007
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 9/12/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Chopaka is scheduled to be killed off soon and the regs are wide open to catch as many fish as possible. The over abundance of smallmouth bass was not evident from what I saw and caught. I fished th...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/2/2007
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Rating: 2
Fished: 6/2/2007
Hot Spots: 0
Just finished a week on my favorite lake. Camping was great, weather warm and sunny. Fishing was horrible - only 2 strikes in 4 days of fishing. Nothing rising on the excellent mayfly and damsel ha...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/17/2006
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Rating: 3
Fished: 10/17/2006
Hot Spots: 0
First Time fishing Chopaka. My Buddy and I made it there after some uneventfull Grouse hunting about 11:30 and were on the water at 12. Had one take on a Brown Wolleybugger but never saw the fish ( Ye...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/13/2006
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Rating: 2
Fished: 7/29/2006
Hot Spots: 0
I've loved Chopaka for thirty years, but hate the spring crowds, so we usually try to fish there on a cool week in the summer. It has always worked, until this year. Water surface temps were in the lo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/17/2006
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Rating: 1
Fished: 7/15/2006
Hot Spots: 0
The water level was EXTREMELY LOW!!! The worst I've seen in 16 years! Whoever owns the water rights has certainly been excercising them. About 75% of fish caught are bass, up from 50% last year. T...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/31/2006
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Rating: 1
Fished: 5/31/2006
Hot Spots: 0
Our group fished the lake in mid-May. No fish caught. Worst fishing in 30 years.
Dead trout on the bottom and very few fish seen at all. No risers during the hatch. Lots of bass. The lake is in much ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/11/2004
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Rating: 3
Fished: 7/11/2004
Hot Spots: 0
Great week, even though the bass are getting worse. 1 a week two years ago, 3 last year, now the whole first day brought in only bass using flies that usually take trout. Changed to a #10 pale green...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/19/2004
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Rating: 5
Fished: 5/19/2004
Hot Spots: 0
This lake is gorgeous! As with all the other awesome lakes close to to it filled with fish. We hit this lake about 12 am just in time for the may fly hatch. After seeing 5lbs. trout just swi...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 8/25/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 8/25/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Hit the lake on Wed. and fished until Sat. Good action in evenings with wooly buggers stripped near the shallows. Some action down deep with full sink in about 20' with wooly buggers. Saw lots of m...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 6/5/2003
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 5
Fished: 6/5/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Wow what a lake! it was awesome. but the road getting to it! I just hope your not afraid of Heights! I got lost along the way but finally found it. I got my Pontoon out around 10 a.m. and head for t...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/14/2003
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/14/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Fair report, hatch 1230pm-230pm good stuff. chonis' 5ft to 30ft, pretty much all day, weather did it all, 1 day it snowed 12 times & we left with sun & wind burns.....fun
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/3/2003
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 3
Fished: 5/3/2003
Hot Spots: 0
Returned to Chopaka after many years in a row. The sun was warm and the lake beautiful. The usual flies worked well but someone has been cultivating the bass population in the lake. Please! Keep all...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 9/19/2002
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 2
Fished: 9/19/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Beautiful weather and only half the campsites filled. Fishing was somewhat slow and nobody was getting anything on dries, despite a small mayfly hatch that was bringing fish to the surface on the nor...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 7/21/2002
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Rating: 4
Fished: 7/21/2002
Hot Spots: 0
Left Redmond at o'dark thirty on Sat. morning. On the water at Chopaka at 1015. Two of us fishing. I didn't get my first fish until mid afternoon on an olive WB with black maribou tail. Hit a few m...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 10/13/2001
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Rating: 5
Fished: 10/13/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Took a little while to find pattern and speed ( black leaches #10, fairly quick retrieve). The fishing was good. Landed 12 in under 3 hours. I said landed and lost or early released more. Weather was ...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/14/2001
Species: Rainbow Trout
Rating: 4
Fished: 5/14/2001
Hot Spots: 0
Monday was too stormy to fish, with the wind gusts. Tuesday I started with chronomids. Not action and saw little by others so tried intermediate line with a Denny Rickard's Stillwater nymph. This wo...
By: Anonymous
Posted: 5/22/2000
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Rating: 3
Fished: 5/22/2000
Hot Spots: 0
Chopaka is getting too popular I think. The first day I drove up there was Saturday and I couldn't believe how many people were on the lake. Looked like a bowl of Fruit Loops with all the colored tu...