calling all fly fisherman!!!

Here is a listing of put-in-take trout fishing sites in 2004-

ALLEN COUNTY Spy Run Creek 500 BROWN COUNTY Jackson Creek 700 ELKHART COUNTY Cobus Creek 250 Little Elkhart River 3000 Solomon Creek 1000 FRANKLIN COUNTY Brookville Reservoir Tailwater 1500 FULTON COUNTY Mill Creek 600 HENRY COUNTY Big Blue River 1125 LAGRANGE COUNTY Curtis Creek 200 Little Elkhart River 1000 Pigeon River 7000 Rowe-Eden Ditch 800 Turkey Creek 600 LAPORTE COUNTY Little Kankakee River 900 PARKE COUNTY Harden Reservoir Tailwater 750 PORTER COUNTY Crooked Creek 600 ST. JOSEPH COUNTY Potato Creek 800 STEUBEN COUNTY Fawn River 600 Pigeon River 2000 All trout waters are stocked in the spring except Oak and Pine Lakes and Bethel Pit, which are stocked in October.

 

Brookid, I'm not a fly fisherman but I have seen guys working the upper stretches of trail creek in Michigan City for steelhead during the winter months. jim

 

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come to stueben county, fawn and pigoen both hold some alright trout fishing. curtis creek in lagrange is also home to some river trout. if you lake lovers you can try clear lake they have lake and rainbow.i dont use a fly rod but i do catch some good times on the rivers and streams.

 

Bring it to the top:cheeky-sm

 

I'm surprised no one mentioned Oliver Lake in Lagrange County or Lake Gage in Steuben County...both hold some very nice trout.

 

tri-county and little crooked lake also has trout.

 

The kind of fishing you are looking for doesn't really exist except in the spring after DNR stocks rainbows in streams and lakes. Even then, the trout fishing isn't likely the experience you are looking for, at least that's the case for me. There is some good small stream trout fishing in Michigan, IF you can find a place to fish. Same for Wisconsin's northern counties. Frankly there are just so many people fishing and so few places available, I just forget about trout fishing until next year's trip to Wyoming. There is supposed to be decent small stream trout fishing in Great Smokies NP, but you go there blind, just like you have to do in Michigan. You can hire guides at $400 a day, but they don't want to take you to where you want to go.

 

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Little Elkhart River.

 

Well as far as streams and creeks are concerned i know nothing but if you are want some really nice rainbows and lakers.I would suggest airplane lake at Sullivan-green state forest.although they are not supposed to be there some nice rainbows in resivour 26.

 

As far as I know, the only river that holds decent populations of trout that can be fished with a fly is the spillway below Brookville resevior. I've never fished it (only because I really don't have time to fish when I'm passsing through). From the spillway downstream to the park the water is supposedly wade-able and there are resident (although planted) browns and rainbows.

As for Oliver Lake, I've fished it several times but it's not flyfishing water. The fish tend to be down deep. I've even tried trolling streamers with a sinking line - no luck.

 

The guy who said the kind of trout fishing you look for isn't here was right. I searched for years, checking out everything I could find and just recently gave up and got a boat and decided to focus on different species. Your only hope is the Brookville tailwater as someone mentioned - TU stocks browns and DNR stocks bows so treat them gently. You have the Little Elkhart, up in NE Indiana which is very blah. You can venture up into Michigan. Get a map of their trout stockings. There are resident browns in the upper Dowagiac but the water is so muddy it's hard to pursue them with a fly rod. There are a few very small creeks in southern Michigan that are stocked, and Michigan law allows you to walk in the creeks but landowners don't always care about or even have a good understanding of the law so be careful. Other than that, you have a bunch of marginal water with put and take stockings here and there in Indiana, and some stocked lakes which are alright. The steelhead thing has its merit but is tough to get into and the creeks are pretty disgusting. Not to mention you have to deal with people who are used to fishing some of the worst combat fishing in the country and keep their guard up. East European poachers come in from Chicago to take eggs for caviar are everywhere in the fall from Milwaukee to Michigan City. They will walk right through your line to net or snag fish right in front of you. It's enough to make a person swear off steelhead and salmon for the rest of their life.

Don't beat yourself up too much over finding trout in Indiana. Go find some smallies and white bass in the warmwater creeks and you'll be a lot happier.

 

If you could handle unhooking them and not beating them to death(with a passion)i could put you on the most productive carp fly fishing anywhere its like freshwater bone fish and they spook easy.I hate carp there are soo many of them.