Sunday, May 31

[Phil Lilley]

Duane and I boated to the dam yesterday- fished from 3-5 pm.

I drifted a Trout Magnet stick bait- they're small and cheap so losing one isn't a big deal. Problem is the trebles on them are so cheap the hooks kept bending and breaking off on either fish or rocks. I've been reporting they good mainly off others reports but I was wrong in doing so. Babler uses blue back Rebels.

Didn't catch anything on small stick baits, even when I changed to a small Rapala floater.

Duane caught several nice rainbows on the red San Juan but most were smaller ones - 11-13 inches. They looked good though- all eating lots of scuds I guess. He caught one real nice probably 18 incher on a white shad fly. I switched to a 1/8th oz white jig and caught a couple before heading in.

Others up there were catching them on the red SJ worm too.