TD,

If you were there the same weekend I was, then you didn't "optimize" your catch if you were out on the shoals. Weekend I was there was around the 20th or a day or two later. Seemed like all the fish were in or just out from the reeds. Lots of mine were caught on larger Tom Thumbs fished on the surface over damsel nymph migrations.

Had one or two fish eaten by loons that weekend myself. But, that's not normal Peterhope occurances.

Take a bag of stones with you the next time and throw them at bothersome loons. It should work.
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zen leecher