What an interesting day at another west central Alberta pot hole lake today! The boatmen and backswimmers were very active today as were the rainbows in the lake. Lots of the rainbows were picking the boatmen out of the surface film before they could fly off. The water surface temperature was in the 63F range. From a fly fishermen perspective, where do you cast your foam boatmen? You have to be observant to note the direction that the rainbows were travelling and get your offering in front of them. The takes can be explosive. Several fly fishers today just cast their boatmen out and waited for something to happen. I was trying to hit the rise ring with my boatmen pattern and then strip, strip, pause. I had hits but few hook ups. I was surprised.
...well what worked today?
If I had taken the time to observe, I would have also seen the rather large chironomids in the surface film. I did take some time to fish size 10 chironomids; black and silver ones. Seven takes but none to hand! Seemed rather late for chironomids but it was still happening!
...back to the boatmen! The rainbows were on them. We finally used size 14 flashbacks 5 feet down. We stripped them and paused. That got our hook ups.
Tomorrow; midge tips and hover lines with ultimate boatmen hopefully will will improve our batting average.
...oh yes, we have both been nominated by Phil Rowley for the ice bucket challenge! We will get'er done tomorrow at the lake!
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