After watching the weather go up and down for a couple of weeks, i decided it was time to get serious about catching a Lake Davis TOAD. The afternoon surface water temp was 63 degrees at the start of the trip, and 70 degrees yesterday so don't wait to catch a TOAD.
The catching was interesting, i only landed 10 fish in 6 days of fishing, 5 hrs in morning's and 2 hrs in evening's with some very long kicks in my float tube to get to the point between Freeman Bay and Cow Creek Bay, which seem to have the biggest numbers of fish and damsels if the wind was blowing 20+ mph across Cow Creek Bay. The wind and waves would push the water around the point and create a drift line into Freeman Bay of damsels.
For 2 days i found myself at the right place at the right time with these big TOADS swilling around looking for damsels and what ever else that was swept around the point, now the catching part was the hardest part for me, just because you can see them and get a cast to them doesn't mean that they will grab it, i gave up on my damsel fly and tied on my 3 inch 5 color UV marabou streamer on a floating line and hook a TOAD from shore .....WOW.
I never went back to using a damsel fly, all my fish were caught on the streamer except for the biggest TOAD of the trip on a floating line with a black wiggle tail one evening.
My biggest TOAD was towing me around.
In a big wind the shore fishing was fun.
3 inch streamer is where it should be in the corner of the mouth.
The damsels were hitching a ride with me.
Seen lots of Hex's
Sunset at Lake Davis
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