Finally the wind settled down enough to get out and fly fish! Karen and I had a trip to Maligne Lake scrubbed because of the nasty wind. Well today, we finally loaded up the pram to hit a local lake. The wind was blowing but not like the past two days.
We caught a few fish on balanced leeches and by stripping flashbacks. The throat samples showed that the rainbows were dining on tiny shrimp and immature damsels. We tried several balanced flies and scuds. Early in the afternoon, we switched to blobs. Yellow, pink/chartreuse and jelly tot blobs definitely got the attention of the rainbows. There is nothing in nature that looks like a blob in a lake but the fish are attracted to them.
Karen and I had excellent success in 8 feet of water fishing about 5 or 6 feet below a strike indicator!
Blobs turned an average day of fly fishing into an outstanding day!
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