Karen and I had 4 hours out on the water today at West Lake. We were wondering what the fly fishing would be like the day after a fairly strong cold front passed through Central Alberta yesterday dumping much needed rain.
We got on the water at 11 ish. We caught several trout that had empty stomachs and then we finally got a clue with a throat sample full of daphnia that were alive. Do we tie on blobs? I did while Karen continued to fly fish with a Rusty Nail chironomid. Karen was out fishing me by a wide amount.
About an hour later and a boat move, we found trout that were definitely eating chironomids. Big chironomids. The hatch was light but the trout were on them. Trout has also been dining on shrimp earlier in the day!
After 2 hours (1 pm) the throat samples showed more chironomids. Chromie type chironomids as well as several darker chironomids. The chironomids were in the size 12 category!
So did the post cold front have lousy fishing? Not really. We caught more smaller fish but we did hook up with some larger ones too. The takes were soft early on and the trout seemed to be more aggressive later in the afternoon.
Blobs did work but chironomids for us worked even better!
Steve with a nice trout on. Steve tagged a dandy a few minutes before this shot using a blob!
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