Wallowa Lake General Information:

If you find a more stunningly beautiful and serene glacial moraine lake, let us know.  Wallowa Lake is a truly sacred local place.  The lake is deep, cold, and impossibly clear. That means that it doesn't harbor the plant and insect life to be a true blue ribbon trout lake, but you could do worse then spending an even at the river in-let on the south end fo the lake swinging nymphs and fishing with Bald Eagles and Osprey.  And, if warm enough for a swim, well, there isn't a better place on earth.

Fly-fish for stocked trout at the south end where the river comes in.  Cast into the stream current, throw a few mends, then strip line off your reel and let the current carry it out, then strip it in.  Try a green woolly bugger or damsel fly with a small orange soft hackle trailer.  Or simply dead drift a prince nymph in the current.

ODFW is a reporting in a significant shift in the Kokanee fishery.  Small kokanee under 10" have increased in recent years from 70,000 to 900,000. The daily catch limit was recently increased from 10/day to 25.

Some of our favorite Wallowa Lake Fly Patterns :

Dries:  Griffiths Gnat sz. 12 -18 , Parachute Adams sz. 12- 18 , Purple Haze sz 10 -16, Renegade sz. 12-16 , Turks Power Ant sz. 12 -16 

Nymphs:  Princes sz. 10 - 14, Rubber Leg Squirrel sz. 10 - 14, Copper John sz. 12 - 18 , Lightning Bug sz. 14 - 18,  Kaufman Stone Nymph sz. 6 -12, Green Damsel Nymph sz 10 - 14, Orange Soft Hackle sz. 14 - 20, Scud Patterns, Mysis Shrimp Patterns 

Streamers:  BH Olive or Black Rubber Legs Wooly Bugger sz. 8 - 12 , Matuka Spruce sz. 6 - 12 , Muddler Minnow , Leeches