More of a question, really - why was the fishing so poor?
We fished Dry Falls and Lenice in the middle of the week last week. Yes, it was a heatwave (temps in mid 90s by end of week, 80s earlier in the week), but the fishing was surprisingly slow - even when the heat not on (morning and night).
The best we could do at each lake was pick up a few very random fish in the early part of the day and then it would be more or less COMPLETELY DEAD from the afternoon into the night. We even fished some after dark - trying all the old standbys (every type of leech and streamer that we had) - not a bump at Dry Falls, picked up only a couple (as in exactly 2) at Lenice near/after dark.
At Dry Falls - we wasted some time the first day fishing in the flats, picking up a number of 11-12" fish on mini-leeches, damsel nymphs and chironomids (on top and below) and then decided to focus on the big lake for bigger fish. We tried everywhere and everything - buggers, chironomid, damsel nymphs down deep (just off bottom), on the drop-offs, etc. Except for one "ok" brown (about 17") on a bugger down deep and one lethargic rainbow (about 18") on a drop off, we couldn't scare up a fish.
At Lenice - some fish surfacing during the morning - completely uninterested in chironomid, damsel nymphs (many were out there wriggling) and anything else "obvious". Picked up a couple on a mayfly spinner (followed by numerous refusals) and a couple on a mayfly dry (none were hatching tho, followed by numerous refusals), and a couple randomly on mini-leech - then it went dead for the day. Others we talked to had even less luck than us.
I used to fish these lakes more in the 90s - I don't remember them going dead like this until a little later. Any ideas?
but i'm not complaining ...
We fished Dry Falls and Lenice in the middle of the week last week. Yes, it was a heatwave (temps in mid 90s by end of week, 80s earlier in the week), but the fishing was surprisingly slow - even when the heat not on (morning and night).
The best we could do at each lake was pick up a few very random fish in the early part of the day and then it would be more or less COMPLETELY DEAD from the afternoon into the night. We even fished some after dark - trying all the old standbys (every type of leech and streamer that we had) - not a bump at Dry Falls, picked up only a couple (as in exactly 2) at Lenice near/after dark.
At Dry Falls - we wasted some time the first day fishing in the flats, picking up a number of 11-12" fish on mini-leeches, damsel nymphs and chironomids (on top and below) and then decided to focus on the big lake for bigger fish. We tried everywhere and everything - buggers, chironomid, damsel nymphs down deep (just off bottom), on the drop-offs, etc. Except for one "ok" brown (about 17") on a bugger down deep and one lethargic rainbow (about 18") on a drop off, we couldn't scare up a fish.
At Lenice - some fish surfacing during the morning - completely uninterested in chironomid, damsel nymphs (many were out there wriggling) and anything else "obvious". Picked up a couple on a mayfly spinner (followed by numerous refusals) and a couple on a mayfly dry (none were hatching tho, followed by numerous refusals), and a couple randomly on mini-leech - then it went dead for the day. Others we talked to had even less luck than us.
I used to fish these lakes more in the 90s - I don't remember them going dead like this until a little later. Any ideas?
but i'm not complaining ...