Posted by: stonefish
Westside Dry Action - 05/30/10 11:27 PM
Hit a westside lake with a couple of friends today. Started out casting and retrieving leeches and damsel nymphs on floating and intermediate lines. Got a few fish doing this, but we were really just passing time waiting for the Callibaetis hatch to go off.
The hatch started around noon and was dying off when we left at 4:30.
This lake holds a nice population of wild bows, cutts and cutt-bows.
All are good looking fish, heavily spotted and very healthy
Big fish of the day was John's 18". We got one 17" and a few in the 14-15" range. The average size was 10-12" with lots of dinks as well, which bodes well for the future.
The Callibaetis in this lake are really large, so using a size 10 bug isn't to big. We got fish on Irresistible Adams, Parachute Adams, Sparkle Duns, Extended Body Duns and several emerger patterns.
Letting it sit, twitch it or stripping it in all produced. It really didn't seem to matter how you presented the fly.
Not a bad day weather wise with some showers and light winds. Both seemed to help the fishing.
Here are a few pics from today.
The hatch started around noon and was dying off when we left at 4:30.
This lake holds a nice population of wild bows, cutts and cutt-bows.
All are good looking fish, heavily spotted and very healthy
Big fish of the day was John's 18". We got one 17" and a few in the 14-15" range. The average size was 10-12" with lots of dinks as well, which bodes well for the future.
The Callibaetis in this lake are really large, so using a size 10 bug isn't to big. We got fish on Irresistible Adams, Parachute Adams, Sparkle Duns, Extended Body Duns and several emerger patterns.
Letting it sit, twitch it or stripping it in all produced. It really didn't seem to matter how you presented the fly.
Not a bad day weather wise with some showers and light winds. Both seemed to help the fishing.
Here are a few pics from today.
