Well it seemed like the fish were still biting the other day in stormy and windy weather, but not as good as it had been earlier in the week. I got a good workout kicking around in my float tube against the wind.

I started fly fishing recently. I've been doing good getting trout to 3 pounds dragging around wooly buggers, but can't seem to match the hatch when fish start rising before dusk. I also miss a lot of bites on the bugger, don't know if I'm setting the hook too hard, giving it too much slack, have too much line out, or not setting the hook fast enough. I think it might be a mayfly hatch, and there are trout rising everywhere with swallows flying around too. None of my dry flies do very well. Do you guys have any general patterns you use, or suggestions on dry fly fishing on lakes? I read that Parachute adams flies are pretty good at imitating a lot of different hatches.

Another really fun way to flyfish that I did last week was to pull around a big black leech on a floating fly line for the first 30 minutes after dark. The lake was flat and glassy, and big trout were nailing it and exploding out of the surface.

Here's some pics. I didn't get any of the bigger trout.