Hit Dry Falls Lake at about 2:00 PM and fished it until about 5:00PM. The wind was blowing hard and had come to Dry Falls because it is more protected than the other lakes I wanted to fish (waves were only 1 foot here). The wind was probably the only reason I could even find a place to fish. I had a fairly stable canoe and could hold in the open water where tubes were having trouble with the waves. All the tubers were pretty much grouped up in the sheltered areas.

I had one very large fish grab the black wooly bugger I was fishing on a sinking fly line and head off. It broke the fly off before I could even start to stop it. My daughter had a nice fat 12" rainbow almost to the boat before it "lost the hook". fishing didn't seem real fast, but there were individual sportfishers who seemed to always have something on. There's probably some secret fly or something that the regulars use that I don't know about....

The strongest impression I kept from this trip was how crowded the ramp and lake was. Absolutely unbelievable for a "weekend after the opener" and such terrible weather. I think we need to start petitioning DFW for more "selective fishery" lakes. From a marketing perspective, I don't think there is any way those folks could honestly say that a
"run of the mill put and take lake" like Chuckar down by the Potholes can generate the license sales and equipment sales for tackle shops that a Dry Falls or Lenice or Nunnally can when properly managed. Anyway, that's my opinion.

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