Sunny, Cloudy, Windy and Fishy

I can't hardly believe that it's the 10 of July and were not burning up, with the hi today of only 75 when it should be in the upper 80s. I'm not bitchin, Lovein it, the lake have cooled way down the fish are up and were getting a fresh hatch of Calibaetis. My Sage One was calling me early this mourning and I was hearing it loud and clear.

I was on my Buddy's private lake at 5:30 and in the water before 5:45 and was into my first of many browns before 6AM.
I started out with a large black leach tied on my intermittent line and pounding the shore line, slow jerky strips from side to side.

the take was like a freight train  and I was snapped off many times even with 3X tippit. By 7 o'clock I had lost count of all the fish I had on. the wind was blown out of the north and it was hard to cast much so I stuck with the intermittent line rowing myself back up the lake and wind drifting back down. after doing this a few times and getting my last big leach snapped off. I put on one of my                                  Crawdads and gave it a fling while i was down by the rock pile. 

This one is small and the one I was using was dark real dark almost black. 

By 8 the wind picked up and was getting hard to hold in one spot so I headed to the shelter  of the trees at the north end dropped my 12lbs. of anchor chain pulled out the dry line tyed on a Caddis fly and gave it a long fling and it hit the water a wake moved it away from me and I fed out some line and just lifted the rod to scoot it across the water, Bam a big Bow took it with a splash and it was game on with it coming out of the water three times be fore it was in the net. It was hard to cast except with the wind and yes I did get a few wind knots. 

My coffee was gone by 9 and boy did I have to pee. so I worked my way bac to shore and grabbed some more leaders and a Gatorade and crunch bar. 

Then let the wind carry me down lake a ways and I rowed into the cove to fish. the wind is powerful thru here and unless I anchored up in less then 6 ft of water with 15-20 foot of line out I couldn't hold. I was rocked around like a kite casting my deep seven line into 26 feet of water and picking up a couple of very nice Tigers on the Crawdad. Then I tried the D D P Booby fly and had a ball with it. 

Across the cove on the far shore line I kept seeing fish surface and let the wind carry me that way. I could see Damsel Nymph swimming by me so I tied onto the One and a red eyed damsel nyp. and gave it a 30 ft cast and had a hay day until I could keep myself off the shore line about every third or fourth cast I had to get back on the ores and pull myself bac out and re-drop anchor. 

By noon the sky was getting pretty black and looking like the Ace of Clubs and I called it quiets and headed bac to the launch pulling on the ores hard to get there.

I caught every kind of trout that is in the lake, some small but mostly bruits, One of the Bows was pushing 8-8 1/2 lbs, one of the first Brown was well over the 9lb, long fat and very healthy. a Tiger that I just love to tangle with and O-yea some strong great fighting Brookies. 

Just as I was tying down my Pontoon with the last strip the clouds opened up and it poured.  I got drenched but I needed a shower after the hot time i had on the water. The cool temps of July the wind we see not often, summer down pours and having a good friend that lets me fish in a unbelievable lake.