Took a drive to look for some cicadas and do a little fishing. the area seemed void of cicadas except one or two that i heard in the trees but could not find. started with cicadas on the creek but soon switched to green drakes since there was some coming off. didnt muster many fish but i landed a few including one stud brown that was well over the standard size. no cutties or brookies surprisingly.
Austin wanted me to take him fishing and preferred the big res so we got on the road around 0600. it was so void of people in the middle of the week it seemed so amazingly peaceful. wasnt sure what to expect in the way of fishing since i never fish it in june and the lake was fuller then ive ever seen it. between the 2 of us we had a handful of nces but austin mustered the only fish. i was stoked for him since he never fishes.
Usually this spot is an early Jun venture and it usually only happens once a year, unless there is still much run off during the 1st week of Jun, then we dont get to to fish it at all. i say once a year cause its on some LDS land that matt has permission on so we dont get much opportunity to fish it and that all depends on whether they have youth groups or other shit going on at the time. its a special place and has become one of my favorites. bows, cuttbows, cutts, browns and an occasional brook trout. swim in this creek with 15" being pretty standard. lots of overhanging shit and no shortage of bow&arrow casting to be had. the weather was pretty good and according to one of the elders we ran into up there said the run off had just come to an end so we seemed to have caught it just right. we didnt see miuch in the way of any hatches but there were some stones crawling around and a few bugs flying but nothing major. the fishing was a bit slower then normal and we didnt see any of the big fish in there but we came away with a nice handful of fish landed.
A piece of water had a drop in flows that made it a little more fishable. it was still high and a work out to wade but it was fishable. didnt see a whole lot of action, saw a few, including a couple solid fish but only landed 2 of the average kind. was nice throwing meat on moving water again while enduring a run off hiatus from the rivers
Headed over to one of our more local lakes to see if ice off had begun yet. nope, she was still all locked up. you could see that the shoreline in some spots were thinking about it but it was still all iced over. i went and looked at the spill way and some of the upper creek. saw some decent fish and a bunch of smaller risers. i threw a small streamer to start with but no action. decided to switch to a bobber (disgusting word) and nymph type shit. caught a little brookie on a balance leech. i love the drive up there cause once you get off the hwy there usually some good wildlife action to see. on this drive there was a bald eagle right off the road snacking on some dead critter then i saw a big Tom strutting his stuff for the ladies
