6-4-18 Quick Report on the Restricted Zone

[Bill Babler]

Started out on extremely flat water out of Lilley's with surface temps in the 48 degree range, 5:50 AM.  Plenty of depth this morning with the lake at 703.4 even on slack water.  Fished from Fall Creek down for the first hour and had roughly 15 nice and I mean nice bows in the 12 to 16 inch range..  They bit well on the Bubble Gum Berkley Power worm 6' under the float until the sun hit the water and it was over like turning off a light switch.

Pulled into the restricted zone and switched to a olive head olive body Micro and it got really good.  Water was completely flat full of surface pollen and not moving a lick from either current or air movement, and it really didn't matter.  Had easy 20 plus fish in a couple of hours on the Micro by just shaking it and letting it set.  I don't remember a strike that the indicator was pulled completely under.  They would just rattle it or move it a sideways.

I'm sure my clients got tired of me saying "There he is or he's on it."  I've seen so many soft strikes, I see them in my sleep.  We had fish up to 19" hitting that Micro and the indicator would just shudder and not even think about going under. 

One of my guys this morning was a fly fishermen from Colorado and said without my help he would have missed 90% of those strikes, as he just had never seen anything that lite.  Mostly cause he fishes moving water with a dry fly.  He was amazed at the quality of the fish, the extremely lite strike and then the activity of the fish once hooked.  We had lots of jumpers.

As Phil has been telling you, lake is full of very quality fish and between now and the 4th. might be a good time to come and give some of them some exercise.

 

[Seth]

Some of those trout fought like absolute demons this past weekend! Maybe it's just due to the fact that they are just really nice fish, but I don't remember having to play them quite like that before when using 4# test. We experienced that light bite stuff all weekend as well. They would become much more aggressive when the wind picked up though and it was like fishing for bluegill. That float would just take off!

[Bill Babler]

Seth, the bite was extremely lite, but after they took the fly they were completely insane.  I'm going to guess we had at least a dozen fish in the 13 plus inch range come unbuttoned   We had one 16" fish jump 5 times, and she was serious about it.  Lots and lots of fun for my guys this morning.