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Williams Lake Report
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05/15/2010
Trolling With Fly
Rainbow Trout
Orange
Other
Morning
05/15/2010
2
816

I left for the lake at 7:45 A.M. and the skies were clear. Air temp was in the mid to upper 60's. No clouds and only a slight breeze out of the S/W. I arrived at the ramp one hour later and I had to wait while a someone was prepping his boat at the top of the ramp. I probably waited 220-25 minutes until he finally hit the water. I was using an 8 1/2 foot 6 weight fly rod with a full sink line. Behind the line I had about 5 feet of tapered leader, then about 5 more feet of 5X tippet. I was dragging an Orange Blossom Special (Orange bead head, orange tinsel chenille, and orange maribou tail with orange crystal flash, wooly bugger in a short size 12)
I hooked up right off the bat and landed a nice 12" rainbow. I continued to troll, with oars only, for about an hour and hooked up again. I'm assuming it was another rainbow but it came unbuttoned just before I got it to the net. I trolled down the cliff side of the lake where 18 other boats and myself were treated to the sight of a bald eagle doing some fishing of his own. Didn't have another strike until I was back close to the launch and managed to bring to hand a nice 12" cutbow. I have invited both fish to dinner. It was time to leave the lake because of the speed boats.


Comments

MotoBoat
5/15/2010 10:29:00 PM
Good to hear the trout excepted your invitation.
hewesfisher
5/17/2010 8:22:00 AM
Nice report Joe and was mighty nice of the fish to grace your table. ;-)
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