Timpa Lake Fishing Guide, Elmore County, Idaho

• Overview

  The Elmore County end of Idaho holds Timpa Lake. The setting is pine and birch. Small at around 3 acres: two anglers spread out cover most of it. On size it sits at the modest end of our Elmore County list. You are 38 miles from Ketchum. It is 62 miles to Boise, the nearest city. This one is safely inside the county line.

• Where to Fish on Timpa Lake

  No chart reached our records; the first cast is your sounding. Still water like this holds fish on the edges rather than out in the open. Look for the band where the shallows give up and the bottom falls away. Across Elmore County, recorded fish include rainbow trout, cutthroat trout, Arctic grayling and california golden trout. At least one recorded species is protected in parts of its range; read the local rules before targeting anything. Fish Timpa Lake to its features, not to its size.

• Seasonal Patterns

  The seasonal spread runs 16°F to 52°F. Four clear seasons, with a proper winter at one end. Hard cover is dependable here; it goes around late May. The open-water window runs from around late May to about early November in an average year. Reckon on open water from spring through to late autumn, with May and June the strongest. Timpa Lake runs to that rhythm year in and year out.

• Tackle & Baits

  Access is not recorded for this water. Mapping records no facilities at all near this water. For the bass here, soft plastics worked slow along cover and a spinnerbait for searching do most of the work. Parking space is the usual limit rather than the bank itself. Some water is controlled locally without a sign saying so. If the gate is shut, Low Pass Lake at 1.5 miles is the nearest alternative. Treat Timpa Lake as unsettled until someone local tells you otherwise.