Went to Amber this morning. Got on the water about 7:45am. The water temp was 71° at the surface and 64° at 20'. It was dead calm most of the day with isn't usually good for this lake.

I began marking fish immediatly after launching. They were holding at about 15' in the center of the channel.

We began with brown/red chironomids suspended under indicators at about 10'. We caught just one fish between the 2 of us in the first hour. I used black, brown, red and green with equal results......nothin'.

I decided to go with a larger pattern and my sinking line. This had worked recently at another area lake. I caught 2 14" Cutthroats over the next hour and a half with an Olive Willie.

There were a lot of hatches going on early. Black chironomids, 2 sizes of Mayflies (20 to 22 and 10 to 12) and more damsels than an Errol Flynn movie. After trying to match the chironomid and Mayflies without success I decided to put on a damsel pattern. Over the next 2 hours we caught just 3 more fish. Nothing over 14" for the day. Dissapointing for Amber.

Tight Lines!

raffensg64

6/13/2009 8:23:00 PM

Ouch! You're losing your touch, Rooscooter! Just kidding.....Amber has done that to us all before and will do it again. On my last trip there 4-5 days ago, we had short bursts of activity where we'd hammer them for 15-20 minutes at a time, with roughly 30 minute waits in between. While we could see no visible hatches, I suspect that small, short-lived hatches were coming off that triggered things. Probably mayflies, for they really keyed in on size 16 PTs and Copper Johns fished within a couple feet of the bottom. The takes were insane!

Rooscooter

6/13/2009 8:36:00 PM

Yea.....there were so many hatches coming off while we were there it was hard to find the "hot" one. Mayflies, chironomids, damsels and dragons were all hatching if large numbers. Also it was dead calm and pretty hot. The surface temp of the lake increased by 2 degrees while we were there. The water is starting to warm up as well which changes where the fish tend to group. I'll get em' next time!

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