My partner and I hit the lake hard tonight. We left the dock trolling flies, and had no strikes or hookups for the first 2 hours. We then decided not to strike out, and we pondered, we tride chiros, nymphs, wooley buggers, dries and everything in between. I got one savage strike from a 10" rainbow, that just about swallowed my trolled black wooley bugger on a sinking line, and then we went strikeless until the evening hatch started up. Fish were leaping and boiling everywhere out of casting distance, and not grabbing any of our offerings. I again started trolling a gray hackle peacock which got another savage strike, and turned out to be a chunky 13" rainbow. I kept both, and an analysis of stomach contents yielded a few copepods, but a largely empty stomach on the smaller. The bigger fish was stuffed with small (#22-24?) amphipods along with a bunch of greens that it ingested eating the amphipods.

Well there's the answer to a tough night on the lake, the only thing that we didn't use was scuds.

Keep what you need, and release the rest.

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