Fishing This Morning...

[Phil Lilley]

Took a family out for a quick trip on the lake this morning. Started on 7 am. Water was really slow here at the dock, almost too slow to drift so we boated up past Short Creek where it's shallower and faster current (still pretty slow though) and started drifting Gulp eggs using just a couple of small 3/0 splits above a #6 short bronze hook, 4 lb line. One white and one orange- as soon as we hit the creek mouth, they started hooking rainbows and caught them good all the way down past the old Sun Valley Resort. They probably boated 15 rainbows in all, some up to 14 inches, most over 12 inches. Fought good. All released.

The second drift was less fruitful. Ended the trip at 10 am, drifting down to the resort.

Big midge hatch this morning but the trout weren't paying much attention to them. Wood ducks, heron, song birds of all kinds out this morning. Hardly anyone out either. Wonderful morning.