Anyone know when Jackson Lake will be fishable?

[John88]

Been wanting to fish Jackson Lake, but heard it was closed untill March 31st due to people playing on it and falling through the ice. So headed up to Jackson Lake a couple days ago, nobody there, and the water level was really low (can see all the weeds). Is the lake still off limits? Wasted an hour driving up there, so anyone know when it will be fishable? Is there anyone I can contact before going up there next time for info?

Thanks.

[ALandsford]

Scheduled to be stocked this week

[Eat Sleep Fish]

Did you ever go check it out? Wonder how the water's doing and if they even planted...

[iloveGarick]

My wife are headed there this weekend. Will report back and let you know how it goes.

[Viejo]

Been wanting to fish Jackson Lake, but heard it was closed untill March 31st due to people playing on it and falling through the ice. So headed up to Jackson Lake a couple days ago, nobody there, and the water level was really low (can see all the weeds). Is the lake still off limits? Wasted an hour driving up there, so anyone know when it will be fishable? Is there anyone I can contact before going up there next time for info?

Thanks.

Jackson Lake is on Forest Service land and is basically a sag pond that is filled by springs. They finally closed it this year due to the continued stream of folks falling through the ice and drowning. It is open now. In drought years (the past three), the lake is very low. It can fill to overflowing in the wet years. Once they start stocking, you can join the hordes who line the lake. It gets fished out a day or so after the truck leaves. With lake so low...plan on losing lures to the millfoil weed and the reeds.

Not sure how you could say you wasted an hour....had to have been better looking up there from pretty much any place you came from!:LOL:

[iloveGarick]

Jackson Lake is a lot of fun, but you have to get there early in the morning when no one's really around or there yet. It started getting packed and filling up by 11am. You'll have to keep in mind that people also come here to hike, mountainbike, for churchgroups, kids go boating/paddling/rowing and some even just swim in the lake.

We caught about 5 baby trout that we released because they were really too small to be worth eating so we thought we'd give them a chance to get a little bigger, either for next time or someone else. Water-levels were extremely low and another family we met (older grandma came out fishing first then others randomly started showing up) told us that they still hadn't stocked the lake yet for this year.

It was a good time, but keep your expectations low.