WOW.....Davis Lake never seems to amaze me, a week or so ago i was catching fish every day, but this trip i didn't land a fish the first 3 days. I found lots of fish on the surface in the morning and evening from Eagle Point to Freeman Bay....but....they didn't like any of my small buggies stuff, there was a lot of hatches coming off, some very big blood midges, black caddis, incredible midge hatch, and a huge callibaetis hatch coming off at 10 am to 2 pm, needless to say that there is a lot of food in Lake Davis for the trout to EAT, and the trout can be very selected.
After eating my lunch on Sat. i decided to jump out of the box, i gave up on matching the hatch and decided to do some ripping with my big 3 inch streamer in Freeman bay during the huge callibaetis hatch coming off. In one hour i landed 3 very large trout fishing a floating line, 15 ft. leader, and the big streamer......WOW....that evening i went down to Eagle Point to fish, and using a floating line, and my big streamer i caught 2 more very big trout.
On Sunday morning i went into Catfish cove to see if i could find a toad, i didn't see any trout on the surface or get any grabs....but i did find a big school of bait fish 3-5 inches feed on the midge hatch coming off. I think those big trout have been feeding on the bait fish after the weed beds die off for the winter, this could be why they would grab my streamer during the bug hatch.
So when thing get tough, try jumping outside the box.
Scott V. heading out into Freeman during the huge Callibaetis hatch.
It was nice to see some snail shells and even some live one's floating around.
My camera died so i don't have any big fish pictures, just some camera shy trout one's
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