Every day is different! The water temperature, wind, what is available to the trout and how deep are the trout feeding are all things to consider. Some days it is tough to figure it all out!
Today was quite windy. A south east wind that became quite strong. The water temperature is below 50F and it is fall.
All we had to do is catch a trout and take a throat sample. Today the trout were dining mainly on hyalella shrimp (fresh water shrimp), immature damsels, darner dragonfly nymphs and daphnia! Take a look at the throat samples.
Karen and I started off with blobs and a Tokaryk Special, ...no takes. I changed to flashbacks which I cast and retrieved while Karen switched to Bubba Gump Shrimp and a Glen's Leech! Karen started hooking up on the Glen's Leech although we saw nothing in the throat samples to suggest that was a good decision! I had no hook ups stripping Flashback Pheasant Tails, hmmm!
Well Karen had settled on putting a Glen's Leech 3-4 feet below a strike indicator. She got a lot of takes. Well I switched as well and it was game on!
Trout love to dine on shrimp in shallow water. We set up so our leeches were just 2 feet down, real close to shore. We caught several doing just that! I thought that casting and retrieving shrimp imitations would get action. Not today for me.
As you can see, if nothing is happening; experiment. Karen constantly changed depths until she settled on 3-4 feet down below her strike indicator. Glen's Leech is a fall staple. For some reason the trout will dial in on this simple pattern.
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
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