Shaye D Winds

Nick,

Do you have a picture of the googlie fly.

Share?

Anyone got a picture of this? I'm too far away to take a r=drive to see it.  Thanks.

Just curious what it looks like now. i won't be there until September.

On 7/12/2017 at 0:03 PM, GAMBLER said:

Yes. I doubt it will open this year. Water is still 8-10" over the docks.


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Is this the Mexico Launch??

Been reading a few reports from the east and it seems they have had a good evening bite.

Sometimes it is as simple as "password"

Nick,

Go with the fishhawk X4d next year. It would be a great X-Mas present from Mrs Ruff Rider.

Great units. Had my first for over 20 years. Upgraded to the X4 and love it. Probe batteries last a long time in the new probes.

Don

_{Get after them. We will be over early September and as they seem to be coming now we may be just in time. Hope it picks for you and hope to run in to you when we are there.  Maybe see you at Dahl's again.}

_Don

Nick,

Thanks for the camera info. Just ordered a Gopro. Looking forward to some interesting shots.

Good luck on the water and keep the reports coming.

Don

So as I lay here unable to sleep, a new thought has begun to formulate in my brain...

While my buddy John was reeling the king in today and I was standing on the swim platform waiting to net it, I was amazed by how clear the water was and that I could see the fish nearly twenty feet down. This clear water was reaffirmed when we reeled our dipseys in and I could see there flash much deeper than normal.

So here's my hypothesis...

Every year we get a large outbreak of water fleas. These large populations normally crash after an upwelling. This year they have been worse than I can ever remember and for longer than I remember. My thought is they are filtering the water to an above normal clarity. This is putting an extra spook on the fish both from increased light penetration and boat traffic.

When the fleas start to disappear (seemed they were finally starting to die off this weekend) and the plankton has a few days to recover, fishing will return to normal for August.

Nick,

I am not an expert on LO by any means. Oh I really enjoy your live action posts. what do you use for a camera for video?

As for the clear water, I fish Lake Champlain for Land locked salmon and we have noticed with the clearer water we have done better with a lot less flash. We have begun to take a stealth approach. Less trash in the water and longer leads. Lite-bite slide divers work well as does a single spoon 50-150 behind the ball. some guys still run flash and catch fish but the big fish seem to be really shy. Leaders are flourcarbon and kept as light as the individual angler feels comfortable.

You brought up as interesting thought. We do not have fleas yet.

Be good to her. She is the best fishing partner you will ever have.

Good luck out there today.

Except on Lake Camplain.

Don

"Our hottest rig by far the past couple of weekends was a white board green dot spinny with a pohanche passion fly."

Can I ask who makes this fly?

Also I really enjoy reading your real time reports. Good luck to you out there.

Don

Thanks

Great post. Keep at um.

What app do you use to post and upload pics?

Thanks

Don