The lake:
Another Little Gem of a Kamloops Area Trout Lake!
This little beauty resides at approx. 4100 ft. about an hour out of Kamloops BC. It is stocked with Pennask AF3N’s and is rumored to currently hold bows to 10 lbs!!! Given that, along with the fact that the stocking charts confirm the possibility AND our assumption that the timing should be right for the chironomids to be pouring off …… we went fishing! 😀
Upon arrival we saw lots of these:
Adult Chironomid
and a few of these:
Adult Mayfly
but despite our best efforts could not touch a fish with either! 🙁
So when the going get’s tough the tough get desperate and out came one of these:
The Good Old Triple F leech!
Which quickly led to one of these:
A Nice Little Kamloops Rainbow Trout
Netting us a throat sample like this: 😯
Bloodworms! (Chironomid Larvae)
WTF! Oh well, so on went one of these:
Grahams Bloodworm! (one of our favs!)
Which resulted in a few little piggies like this:
… now that’s what we’re talking about!
And that’s fishing folks … just when you think you’ve got em figured out they throw you a curve ball!
The moral of the story: When things aren’t going as you think they should don’t give up … change it up till you find what works and fine tune from there! 😉
bye bye …
… and see ya next time!
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Nice fish Rob!
Nice looking blood worm pattern as well! Where do you get that kind of hook?
Thanks! Eagle Claw L144F. Bought a bunch years ago – not even sure if they still make em. The one in the pic (and that I was using) is a size #14.
Another supplier for hooks like that, which by the way is a york bend style hook, is Daiichi.
1870 (bronze) larva hook. It was designed to imitate a swimming nymph and with the eye lower than the point it gives the fly a jigging action when it is retrieved with short jerks. The good thing about this model is the bend has been modified just a bit to allow for adding a bead. Hope this helps.
Hey Rob, does that lake begin with thhe letter D & have a very bumpy ride in to it?
yes sir! 😉
Say Rob,
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When we met we talked about Length to LBS ratio.
Has anyone worked out a chart as an accurate reference guide say for Triploids?
Cheer’s
X-Hare
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Nice fish X- hare!
I know most people say the formula is length x girth x girth / 800 but I have never used it so I can’t speak to how accurate it is with triploid Pennasks. For what it’s worth however, I can tell you that my experience shows (at least at the lakes I fish) that healthy 3N Pennasks after 25 inches are pretty close to a pound an inch (25″ = 5 pounds). I know of a few 10’s caught this year that were bang on 30 inches and I measured a few 26’s that indeed weighed in at right around the 6 pound mark. I also caught a 27.5 incher at this very lake last year and she weighed … you guessed it 7.5 pounds. You really got me curious now though so I guess I better start measuring girth next year to see if I can come up with a formula! 🙂