My neighbour Colin and I were out enjoying a beautiful day on a local lake yesterday. We tangled with a few fish but it was the day after a cold front passed through. It was cool and breezy. Colin suggested we should tie on a wiggle worm. I did not really think he was serious but what the heck. Surprise, the rainbows smashed them. The throat samples clearly were indicating the trout were eating blood worms. Well we caught several beautiful specimens. The key is to fish the blood worm imposters very close to the bottom. Just attached your forcepts or a weight to your fly to measure depth to your strike indicator. I got one throat sample that was full of mud and worms. The rainbows were nosing right into the bottom to get after the blood worms. By the way, take a look at the throat sample below. Some of the blood worm samples are white. Interesting. I have encountered several samples like this lately!
Caddis are on our local waters. Be sure to have some small sedge like patterns along. The rainbows were smashing them yesterday.
Please be aware that water temperatures are climbing. When we get into the high 60sF, it is time to give the trout a break. Maybe hit a walleye lake, a river or target lake whitefish.
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