After
a fine day of lake fishing on the Sea to Sky corridor last Tuesday, I was eager to get back as we are getting closer to the Interior lake season. The timing was just perfect as Snapperhead fired me an email and informed me that the lake in his backyard had melted. I gathered up the usual gang to see who would want to go, but two guys' trucks are not happy so they had to stay home and sulk.
After some serious persuassion, Fishersak decided to get his pram out with me today. Just after midnight, I got the message from Fishersak, "I
can't go! No license!"
It took awhile to convince him to buy it online. Finally he wanted to, then apparently the online licensing site does not like Mac very much.
Eventually I was able to register for him, get him to log in and pay, then I exported the PDF license file and sent it to him for print-out. Finally, we were ready to go in the morning.
At first light, I meant, 8am, we were on our way up. Traffic was slow going all the way to Squamish due to construction. 11:00am, the boats were in the water and ready to go.
The target species today were rainbow and cutthroat trout. We used mostly what have produced for us in the past - Olive, brown and black leech patterns. They are fished either by stripping on a sink tip, or freely suspended under an indicator.
The first four hours were extremely uneventful, except of my two bites.
The first one took the indicator for a quick dip, which I completely missed. The second one was a light tug as I stripped the fly in. I barely pulled it and discovered that the fly had disappeared once I brought the line up.
Time to practice some knot tying tonight.
At one point I spotted a few rises in a shallow bay. I ventured over there and found that it was only 5 or 6ft deep. As I looked in the water, a large salmon-like shadow darted away.
There went my big cuttie.
The day started out like this.
By 4pm, it was like this.
This was almost a good thing, as we finally found some biting fish when the wind picked up and the sky clouded over. Fishersak was the first one into a couple of quick fights that never made it to the boat. I then connected with one with some heavy head shakes, which suggested that it was a cutthroat trout, but we never found out as it too shook itself off the hook.
A few misses later, Fishersak finally managed to keep a rainbow trout on long enough and brought it to hands.
The bites went on until 5:30pm. I managed to bring in a couple more rainbow trout, but they were both in the fingerling category.
A couple more weeks, it will wake up.
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Topic: Alta Lake, April 26th 2008 (Read 3387 times)