Fished Davis with Don Rotsma Friday, Sat and Sunday morning. Friday was a great day - fair number of damsels going early and fair number of fish working. Don had 3 before 9. I had none before 9 but that is because Don has trained his two dogs to stand on other people's fly lines so he has first shot at any fish showing!!!! The fish were pretty easy if you could get the bug in front of them (not always easy unless you had one activley feeding on more than one bug!) Between us we likely had 15 hook ups with many more grabs and 12 to the boat - Don had one close to 5# - very fat fish adnd very strong - most took quite a bit of backing along with the fly line!! Weather was a bit windy but not bad and mid 70's. Drove down to the lake to look in the evening but saw no signs of blood midges. Where are they?
The next two days dropped off significanlty. Sat. a front had moved in - it was windier and cooler and not near the number of active fish or bugs. Don's son Jeff fished with us and we all had fish but it did not come close to equaling Friday. Sunday was even slower with not many bugs showing and fish rising sprodically. Most were really moving, searching for bugs so you really needed to guess which way and how fast they were traveling. Don landed one around 17" and I lost one as it was approching my backing! Not sure what was going on but likely weather related and barometer fluctuations?
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