After only catching 3 fish all weekend at the GOOF, I set off to re-affirm my compentency at Manzanita on Fathers' Day weekend.
Set up camp at Manzanita early Friday afternoon... fished the lake until 6 PM and managed to get 3 Browns (1 on a Callibaetis Cripple and 2 on the Callibaetis nymph suspended below the cripple)...largest was 14 inches...missed a few too...it's frustrating to be able to see the flash under the dryfly as the fish takes the nymph and not be able to set the hook...3 or 4 times in a row.
Back Saturday AM and landed this one almost immediately on a Callibaetis Spinner...
(the bow on the net is 20 inches from end to end)
By the time lunch happened, 3 more Browns came to the boat and I lost a few after the hook-up. After lunch, I landed 2 more Browns...missed a couple on the spinner and had one tie me up in the weeds after taking the nymph (nothing worked, I fed slack, I tried moving the boat, but the fish remained hung in the weeds)...Lesson: Don't spend too much time getting a fish on the reel, strip line in to get the fish above the weeds before putting it on the reel!
Fun couple of days with guys from the Mt Tam Club and the Northbay TU Chapter...no real LMS competition though.
Rainbows must still be in the spawning stream...no one was talking about catching anything except browns...and the Callibaetis hatch was non-existent...just sporatic bugs (that the fish were on!)
Paul
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