Popular east side lake, excellent fishing Sunday.
Beautiful weather too.
Water was clear, slightly green, pretty cold but I forgot to take a temperature.
Fish sampled had mostly daphnia, some chironomids, worms, and occasional damsel nymph.
I caught fish under the indicator on a chromie pattern and bloodworm pattern, or in one case, a possie bugger.
Casting and stripping with a type V Aiflo line, a usually good variegated black and olive small bugger was not producing much. Switched over to a bigger white pattern and things improved immediately.
I was fishing two poles, watching the indicator on the floating line and stripping the sinking line. Takes were often subtle indicator movements for the chromie, so I missed a lot when the indicator rod was not in hand. Most of the takes on the white stripped pattern were in the final part of the retrieve, near the boat.
Very good day.
Sample
These fly images with the fly under water.
I had not had much experience with white, but some folks here had reported success with it, so I tried, and was glad I did!
This guy had something dialed in.
Jay
Beautiful weather too.
Water was clear, slightly green, pretty cold but I forgot to take a temperature.
Fish sampled had mostly daphnia, some chironomids, worms, and occasional damsel nymph.
I caught fish under the indicator on a chromie pattern and bloodworm pattern, or in one case, a possie bugger.
Casting and stripping with a type V Aiflo line, a usually good variegated black and olive small bugger was not producing much. Switched over to a bigger white pattern and things improved immediately.
I was fishing two poles, watching the indicator on the floating line and stripping the sinking line. Takes were often subtle indicator movements for the chromie, so I missed a lot when the indicator rod was not in hand. Most of the takes on the white stripped pattern were in the final part of the retrieve, near the boat.
Very good day.
Sample
These fly images with the fly under water.
I had not had much experience with white, but some folks here had reported success with it, so I tried, and was glad I did!
This guy had something dialed in.
Jay