Day 3 - Trolling for some trout in the AM

Due to the temperature, you wouldn’t figure there would be a lot of fishing charters going out this time of year on Lake Tahoe. Fortunately, we were right. Although they do fish out here all year long, the winter months are a bit slower for the fishing charters.

Before heading to the docks, Anna, LT and I had some quick breakfast and then Anna ferried us to Sky Marina. The captain asked us to be at the docks around 7:40am this morning and we arrived right on time. The charter was a group charter and we ended up have six on the boat, including the captain. The other anglers were a family from San Francisco up just for the day.

The weather was perfect and it was very comfortable out on the water. No wind to speak of and the water was glass. We didn’t venture out too far on the water before the captain rigged the lines and we dropped the bait. On the lake, the fishing technique was trolling and it was done on an average depth around 250ft. The fish species we were going for were Brown Trout, Lake Trout (Mackinaw) and Rainbow trout. Lake Tahoe also has a Kokanee Salmon, although we did not fish for those. They apparently have scarce due to the lack of snow melt over the past few years.

The boat ride was totally amazing only enhanced by the the views, which were simply breathtaking. Even though the trip was five hours, ti wasn’t long before the charter came to an end. Between the six of us we only managed to wrangle in three Brown Trout. All of us thought we would have caught far more than that, but some days are just not as plentiful. We arrived back to the docks a little before 1:30pm and were happy to find the ladies were waiting for us with opened arms.