Orange and Lochloosa Lakes are brimming with water, and light tackle fishers are seeing the expected seasonal change in the fastest-biting panfish. Speckled perch ...more are vacating the pads and grass beds while shellcracker and bluegill numbers are growing fast.
Fishing out of Twin Lakes Fish Camp on Cross Creek late last week, Jim O’Brien dropped small Beetle SpinsSpins into open pockets in lily pads to take a 37 mixed bream. But we can’t be so sure that Orange Lake bream are likewise willing. Wednesday, another fisherman idled from Twin Lakes through Cross Creek to try for bream in Orange.
The wind, though, had plugged access into open lake with floating vegetation.