What a windy Sunday! Wind gusts up to 60 kph! Well Karen, Hal, Adam and I headed to the Fish and Game lake called West Lake. Sadly the lake is quite low but the rainbows are still doing great. The 6 or 7 aerators are doing a great job keeping the lake well oxygenated. The water was 50F. After launching, Karen and I headed to a spot with less wind. Karen fished with a Tokaryk Special and she landed an excellent rainbow. A throat sample included several large leeches, some tiny boatmen and scuds.I was stripping Blue Flash Damsels and caught a few but quickly changed to a basic black leech after seeing the rainbows were eating leeches, scuds and the occasional damsel fly nymph! It didn't take long to connect with a dandy rainbow on my black leech streamer. Karen tagged another rainbow on a Vampire Leech. Hal was doing great with Tokaryk Specials and Adam started landing rainbows after he switched to cast and retrieve! The leeches as you can see were large. I was stripping a 4 inch black leech and the larger rainbows showed a lot of interest in them. Looks like the wind is hanging around for a few days. I hope you were able to get out this weekend.
That is a lot of calories in this throat sample.
A bald eagle looking for an easy meal!
