Hmmm, The smaller fish are the plants from 2000 (half of them triploids), but the larger fish are still there. I spent a couple of weeks there at the end of May and early in June and caught only one fish under seventeen inches (the largest was about twenty-two and most were in the eighteen- to twenty-inch range). The smallmouth bass have been in the lake for a few years, but don't really seem to have become a serious problem yet (I didn't catch a single one this year). Chironomids, leeches, scuds and damsels are good year-round, but since Callibaetis are multi-generational and are available to the fish throughout the spring to fall season (albeit going from size 14 down to 18 in the fall) be sure to try floating emerger patterns in the afternoon. Dry damselfly patterns are also a good choice until it starts to get too cold for them.
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