If you're using a four-inch plug, you're probably fishing for bull trout. FWP also stocks cutthroat trout and kokanee at Lindbergh Lake and Holland Lake in the Swan Valley. Perch can also be found at Holland Lake. FWP received an uncomfirmed report of northern pike being caught at Holland, also. Pike were illegally introduced to Swan Lake many years ago, and according to Rumsey, there's nothing to stop the fish from traveling upriver, though they aren't, by nature, a river fish.
Pike prefer quiet waters.
The lake receives 4,000 rainbow trout per year, along with large, surplus brood stock from the Arlee fish hatchery when they are available. Netting this spring showed pretty good numbers of fish at Van Lake, Rumsey said. Shay Lake is also doing well, along with Metcalf Lake. However, since Metcalf Lake is managed as a trophy fishery and stocked with rainbow trout, special regulations apply. Anglers are allowed only one fish over 22-inches long per day.