Month: November 2019

I always feel a little weird fishing around the cages in the marina. A year ago the automatic feeders would spray pellets into the lake and fish would hang around. The feeders have been fixed so fewer fish hang around the cages. As I was leaving my docking berth, several fish were actively feeding at…

I got out on the lake yesterday and got blown all over the place by the wind. I tried to get into the spot that was hot for Don the day before. The wind blew me right into the hot spot, and I had to use my motor to free me from smashing into the…

I got on the lake today at noon and the water was wonderfully ripply. The ripples give soaking midges a wonderful action. And the ripples don’t affect trolling or stripping flies. I met Don out on the lake and asked him how he had been doing, and I never fully heard due to the wind…

Hard to believe it has been 12 days since my last post. Nothing horrible going on. I’m just puttering. Events over the last 12 days include: Fished over a week ago with two really good fishermen from the Shasta Flyfishing Club. Nothing was happening all day. I landed two fish casting a blackberry mohair leech…

I got out on the lake to putter a little while before the early dark. In 30 minutes I had 3 hookups and landed two 13 inchers using a blackberry leech. Two locals from the park landed 5 and lost many more using their new strategy: when fish rise move the boat quickly to the…

I have been on the water the last few days running my experiment comparing fly/lures (FLURS) to trolling worms. The fish have gone off the bite. They are schooling and moving and no longer hang out in areas. The are constantly on the move the pods of fish are hard to find. I realized that…