Fishing Report

[Phil Lilley]

Babler said fishing this am was very good. He started with olive micros below Andy's and ended with red zebras after the sun hit the water.

Water off.... haven't reported that in a lot of months.

The wind blew some today which made fishing better. When it's flat, it's tough.

I saw this played out this evening. I boated to Andy's alittle after 6 pm. The sun was still bright but rainbows were midging pretty hard. Where I was sitting in the middle of the lake, the water was chopped on the bluff side but not on the shallow side. The wind was blowing around the corner at Lookout and only hitting the bluff. Trout were nudging the surface quietly in the shallows but slashing the surface on the chop side- very aggressive. Bigger fish too.

Saw some minnows- yes minnows schooling close to the surface and the bigger trout were going after them - again - in the channel where the chop was. I've NEVER seen this before. Yes I stripped a cone-head leech a bit and had one take but as soon as I tied it on, the wind stopped and the bite did too.

Caught rainbows on a #14 grey scud- best- working it in 3-4 feet of water and on the flats in 1-2 feet. Best was at the end of the day at the Narrows but on the flat in shallow water. They were REALLY active up on the flat. I pumped the stomach of the rainbow in the pic- several sow bugs and a scud- no midges that I could see.

I always fish a scud with no weight in shallow water, using one-and-a-half times leader under the float than the depth. If I was fishing 2 feet of water, I'd use 3.5 feet under the float. They were hitting it on the fall.