Just got back from Hi Hium Lake following the guys annual fishing trip. I fish Kamloops rainbow only but once a year, and this trip is it.
The weather was crappy: cold, wind, hail, rain, more hail, wind, and did I say wind? In the same day I experienced an awesome hailstorm that boiled the water around my tube and hurt my hands and a wind that surely would have produced a small craft warning on larger waters. I was a little nervous in my tube with waves smacking the back of it and shipping water over the sides. However the fishing was very productive. My best day was 10 fish hooked with the biggest just over 3 lbs. My buddy who has fished Kamloops for years managed a 25 fish day and over 4 lbs was his biggest. Kicking around trolling sedge patterns produced the best. Can't imagine how productive it would have been if the sun had made more than sporadic appearances and the htaches more consistent. But for a hack flyfisherman who hasn't flyfished since last year this time, it was highly entertaining.
On another note:
Have only had a few outings to "cutthroat beach" in the past couple of months. 3 outings totalling just over 3 hours has produced 3 fish landed (1 hy and 2 wild) and several others hooked and lost. Following are my journal entries:
May 18 Crappy conditions at first: on shore breeze, choppy, drizzle and fair amount of weeds in the water. After a while though the wind died down, the chop settled and it became sort of pleasant. Had to move around the beach a fair bit, and thought the evening might turn into a skunk, when a little cutthroat jumped at the lure I had just lifted from the water. A change to a smaller lure and I had him. Got the other little guy a short while after.
May 25 Fiirst fish went completely arial jumping at least a half dozen times. It seemed that he hit the lure just as it was dropping after the cast because as soon as I started reeling he was on. Briefly hooked a second fish that spit the hook immediately. I saw a brief flash of him out of the water and he wasn’t very big. Hooked a third fish that was noticeably < 30 cm. This one spit the hook right in front of me. He was a jumper than I got on the second cast. The second and third fish were about the same size and were hooked from the same spot so it’s reasonable that they were one in the same, but perhaps not…
Towards the end of the hour I heard another splash and saw the rings nearby but repeated casting couldn’t raise him.
Several schools of perch and salmon fingerlings following my spoon in.
June 8: Although no fish landed, still a fair amount of fishy activity. Had 2 strikes, one that was certainly a cutthroat. Had one on-off after a couple of headshakes. Had another small cutthroat follow the lure in. My hook was a little on the dull side and probably why the fish weren’t sticking. Wanted to change hooks but didn’t have my pliers to pinch down the barb. Pleasant afternoon. Some wrack in the water but otherwise good conditions.
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Topic: Hi Hium Lake June 22-25 (Read 1873 times)