Rick and I hit a lake out in the Caroline area. Today was windy and cccold! It didn't start off that way but a weak weather front moved in followed by a nasty bone chilling wind. When we arrived, we saw trout rising everywhere, then came the wind. A strong wind. We both had to layer up to stay comfortable.
We decided to tuck in along an edge and set up in 13 feet of water along a drop off. We set up with chironomids. It did not take long to have a sizeable rainbow take my smoke buzzer wrap chironomid. Rick caught several decent trout and then he tied into a large brown. It took a long time to subdue this large trout. Below you can see the brown, I'm holding it in a picture below! It was a thick strong brown trout!
As usual, we took throat samples. We saw size 18-16 "dull" like chromies as well as some darker chironomids. One throat sample had several leeches as well as daphnia.
We caught lots of newly stocked fish and every once in a while, we tangled with a large rainbow or brown. The wind severely limited where we could go but we made the best of what we could set up in. Today we looked for drop offs and we also marked fish suspended over deep water. We suspected that they were eating daphnia.
Size 16 chironomids
Rick caught this beautiful brown.
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