Comins Lake is fishing well with a full lake and surface water temperatures starting to climb into the low 60’s.  Anglers are catching trout averaging 16 to 20 inches on a variety of tackle.  Panther Martins, spoons, PowerBait, salmon eggs, and night crawlers should all do well for the majority of bait fisherman.  Fly fisherman should use wooly buggers, leech patterns, and nymphs patterns (midges, beaded pheasant tails…etc.).  Bass fishing is slow but should start to pick up with warming water.  Comins has been stocked with approximately 8400 trout this spring.  If you catch a pike, please check to see if it has a radio transmitter tag near the tail.  If it does, please return the fish to the water so that NDOW biologists can track its movements.  If it doesn’t have the transmitter tag, please humanely dispatch the fish.  Don’t put it back in the lake.