The wind was rocking yesterday. Karen and I knew that we could shore fly fish if we had to. When we arrived at our destination, we had to laugh because the wind was roaring. When we rigged up, we talked about how to modify our set up so we don't spend the entire day dealing with tangles. The first thing we did was cut off our dropper. We then shortened our leader. We fished with a 7 foot leader to a single fly. It looked kind of odd to fly fish with such a short leader but it definitely helped both of us a lot. We wanted to cover the water along the edges. Yep, we tied on a Tokaryk Special and pretty much stuck with it all day. We did not have to change to a different pattern. There were times that we had to wait for the wind gusts to settle before we could cast. We did find some deflections that had a bit less wind so our Tokaryks didn't slide down the lake at mach speed.
We were amazed at our success. We caught lots of trout and even a bunch of pike.
At one point during the day, I saw a deflection that created a wind lane. I fly fished the wind lane where food for the trout can often accumulate. I had a lot of success fly fishing 4 feet down in the wind lane. When we walked the shore, Karen and I had to give a wide birth to bird nests on shore. The coots had several nests and they were full of eggs.
We caught a lot of rainbows, mainly stockers; a few tiger trout and several browns. Yes there were also pike present, mostly tiny pike but Karen did land a better one.
Our throat samples consistently had daphnia in them. Many of the takes were hard. We figured the trout were straining the daphnia. The trout swim with their mouth open and just scoop up the daphnia.
We had to dodge several thunderstorms but our day was amazing.
Daphnia in the throat samples
Yep a wind lane
Coot nests were all along the shore
I love tiger trout!
A nice surprise at the end of the day!
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