Arrived at Clear Lake around 1000 am. Slight breeze out of the west, northwest around 5mph. Overcast until around 130 pm. Water temp right around 65F.

Earlier in the week I tied up some woolly buggers, so I decided to try them out. Trolled around the north and east edges of the lake. Caught 8 rainbows anywhere from 12" to 14", lost 5 fish before I got them to the boat, and caught two fish I couldn't readily identify. They looked like bass...but lacked the lateral line of a large mouth, but also lacked the vertical stripes and coloration of a small mouth. Had a black vertical stripe at the end of their tail. Could have been rock bass...biggest rock bass I've seen...about 13" long, right around a pound. Whatever they were...put up a decent fight on a fly rod.

Fish stopped biting after skiers started bombing up and down the lake. Left around 400 pm.

All in all...it was a good day.

Toni

7/1/2008 10:12:00 PM

How far from shore were you? Did you catch any by the grass that looks like it comes down from a unkempt yard and straight into the lake?

leahcim_dahc

7/1/2008 11:25:00 PM

I didn't get too many bites around that grass. The past couple times I have been there, I have gotten some hits there...but not this time.

Usually when I am trolling, I will fish anywhere from about twenty feet outside of the "5 mph" buoys to within ten to fifteen feet of some docks. That's if their not occupied by their respective owners...then I'll give 'em some space. Especially like today when they're swimming around them. The majority of hits came anywhere between the second and third buoy and the far northeast corner. The south and west end was dead.

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