Fished Saturday with three buddies. We arrived at Lenice about 10 a.m. and
seemed to catch the tail end of the only really active feeding activity we
witnessed all day. We managed two fish and one breakoff in a couple hours.
Both fish fell to size 16 chironomids, one olive, the other black. These fish
were typical chunky 16- to 18-inchers.
In the afternoon we headed over to Nunnally and hooked about 10 fish, landing
only three. But one was a really nice 22-inch 'bow -- a dark looking
carryover fish. All the others were much brighter. Red was the ticket here.
Size 16-20 red brassies, and other simple patterns produced our bites. Red
seemed to be the go-to color for the other float tubers on the lake too.
With red working so well, you'd think my experimental red fluorescent hook
with the peacock herl would have produced, but that wasn't the case. I think
it would be a better deep water pattern -- if effective at all. It sank too
fast to work in the shallow water we targeted most of the day and didn't get
a touch.
Not the 20-plus-fish day I had hoped for, but it beat the hell out of yard
work.
