Fished the pond for the first time this season on Monday. Arrived around 9:00 to very light winds and air temperature of 46 degrees. Pumped up the float tube and hit the water about 9:30 noticing a lot of surface activity and numerous cruising rainbows in the top three feet of the water column. Fished with a floating line with an emerger pattern and attached 4 or 5 fish to the fly.
After the temperature heated up and the sun moved more overhead the surface activity stopped and I assumed the fish moved deeper. Switched to a intermediate type II sinking line with various bead head chironomid patterns and anchored my float tube in the deepest part of the pond. For the next couple of hours the chironomid hatch and the fishing was outstanding. Several fish in the 20+ inch size were a challenge to get to the net and that was with a six weight rod and 3x tippet. All fish were bright and healthy.
Spend the last hour or so dragging around different leach patterns trying to attract a brown or tiger but the fishing went dead. I actually wished a breeze would come up as the temperature climbed into the 80's !
Al Eerkes
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Thanks for the report Al.
ReplyDeleteFirst person to catch a tiger gets to clean the outhouse!!! :-)
Tom
I already cleaned the outhouse. Does that mean I get to catch the first tiger?
ReplyDeleteRob