12-01-2002, 05:27 PM
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]Sorry to hear your trip wasn't as good as you hoped! It's pretty normal for things to lighten up during the daylight hours even during the heavy spawning times, as I'm sure you well know. It's the same way during the mack spawn too. It might of gotten better as evening approached. That's all well and good except when you have kids that are too young or bored to death to stay out that long, right? [/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]The fly fisherman that Old Coot refered to in his Bear Lake post was doing ok on large streamers, both in dark and white color patterns. He also hooked a 22 in lake trout when we were there in evening under the marina lights. Old Coot was catching his fair share of whites and I only got one bite using the same stuff. 1/8 oz white 1 1/2" curlytail jigs tipped with night crawlers, bouncing them across the bottom very slowly. We did have the luxury of anchoring 30 ft off the dike and working the smaller rocky/gravel areas out from the dikes, laterally. In close, you have to fight the larger, luring snagging boulders as you bring your retrieve towards or along the shoreline.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]You still got plenty of time to put a hurtin' on the whites. I might go up today and fish the late afternoon / evening for them. Right now I'm entertaining a 3 1/2 yr old and trying to persuade her that BigFishTackle is more entertaining the Disney interactive! HA![/size][/font]
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]The fly fisherman that Old Coot refered to in his Bear Lake post was doing ok on large streamers, both in dark and white color patterns. He also hooked a 22 in lake trout when we were there in evening under the marina lights. Old Coot was catching his fair share of whites and I only got one bite using the same stuff. 1/8 oz white 1 1/2" curlytail jigs tipped with night crawlers, bouncing them across the bottom very slowly. We did have the luxury of anchoring 30 ft off the dike and working the smaller rocky/gravel areas out from the dikes, laterally. In close, you have to fight the larger, luring snagging boulders as you bring your retrieve towards or along the shoreline.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]You still got plenty of time to put a hurtin' on the whites. I might go up today and fish the late afternoon / evening for them. Right now I'm entertaining a 3 1/2 yr old and trying to persuade her that BigFishTackle is more entertaining the Disney interactive! HA![/size][/font]
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