Strawberry - tubing

[Joe_Dizzy]

Flirted with the idea of going to the Uintas today, but the pull of big fish and screaming drags was too powerful to ignore, so back to The Berry I went...

Had to work a little more for the fish today, but was able to put an even dozen in the net. Water temp in early afternoon was only 56* F. With cooler weather in the forecast, its looking like this action will hold up into July.

Mixed collection of chironomids kept the fish on top under mostly cloudy skies all morning. Once it really brightens up they seem to move out over the edge of deeper water, but are still feeding shallow. Everything I caught was within 2ft of the surface.

Stillwater Bug was working first half of the morning. First Cutt to hit the net was a thick 20-incher that coughed up a 5-inch chub. Quick twitch-pause retrieve was getting them to strike.

Trolling the Tequila Booby between spots ended up accounting for most of the fish - including all the Rainbows. Even had one fish slam it on the surface just as I started to retrieve it.

Surface of the water was just littered with chironomid shucks and callibaetis nymphs around lunch time, but couldn't get anything going on various mayfly nymph or emerger patterns. Strange.