Hey Jon / Paul...I fished the lake this morning and had a good morning over at Fungawi. The fish were working again and I took them on a flash back damsel nymph tied on a Tiemco #14 2457. I lost count but I'm sure it was easily over 10 fish within a hours time primarily along the shore line. Between 7:30 and 8:30 was the magic hour. The biggest was probably around 18" which isn't great but I did notice the bigger fish were clean for the most part.
I went up to Freedman and Cow after and there were still some fish working there - a couple of grabs but none to hand. I was off the water by 10:00am. Surface water temps on the way in were 74 degrees - ouch. None of the fish I took seemed to have any problem with recovery upon release.
Beautiful morning...Fungawi was flat - no wind -with fish working - it just doesn't get much better.
Regarding the snails I wonder if the increase in the population of crawdads hasn't had an effect on the snails? I had a tank here I was keeping with Lake Davis bugs and I put in a couple of small crawdads and within days they'd completely cleaned out the tank. I no longer have the tank set up, as I believe it's illegal, but I can't remember if I had any snails in there but I think I did. Maybe it's a population swing all the dead fish equals tons of crawdads no more dead fish the crawdads go after the snails - just a thought.
And what's going on with the west side road? It was great and now they've covered it with gravel enough to create that washboard effect - I was doing 15 miles an hour on the way out this morning and still getting bumped around.
I'll keep an eye out for you on the lake,
Pete
Sonny, the black lab, ran ahead to make sure there were no gophers or jackrabbits in the way. If you don't give a dog a specific job, he'll improvise one for himself and it will invariably be fun. There's a lesson there.
John Gierach
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