Bridgeport Reservoir is a big, fertile, wind-swept stillwater on the high sagebrush flats above Bridgeport, and it grows trout fast — fat browns and rainbows fed on a rich soup of scuds, midges and damsels in the shallow, nutrient-loaded water. It's a boat or tube lake at heart: drift the weed lines and inlets, hang chironomids under an indicator, or strip leeches and buggers for the better browns, especially around the East Walker and Robinson Creek inflows. The reservoir's shallowness is its double edge — it's a feeding machine in the cool months and around ice-off, but it warms hard in summer and gets drawn down for irrigation, which both stresses the lake fish and is the reason the East Walker below the dam runs warmer than a deep-bottom-draw tailwater should. Fish it ice-off through early summer and again in the autumn cool, watch the wind, and respect the warm-water welfare picture in high summer.
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