Community Lake - June 22, 2009

by mr bfsh
(kamloops, BC)

Anticipating a "traveling sedge hatch", Wiener, my longest living fishing buddy, and I tried an evening fish at "Community Lake". The weather had been particularly windy all day and it had rained substantially the day before.

We arrived at the lake about 5:30pm. There were a few other there but it surely wasn't crowded. The word was that the morning and afternoon were not bad but the bite had gone off later in the afternoon.

Reports were that caddis pupae, chironomids, damsels and dragons were all working as the fish were coming up onto the shoals to feed and you could sight fish them.

With the wind, sight fishing was futile. We settled into the south bay. Every one else was at the north shore and further east. Oddly enough, there was nothing coming off the water and not much movement along the shoals. There was the odd roll but they obviously were not feeding on much at the surface unless it was quite small. I was hardly picking up any fish on the fish finder. On my first cast I managed to get my first fish. Using a naked dry line, it hit a light brown damsel. Little did I know that that was all I was going to get to the boat this night.

Wayne was fishing chironomids on a dry line with a strike indicator. He got one small fish early and then capped off the evening with a 14"er just before we headed in. I had a few more hits but I could not keep the fish on (a common trait that was told to me by another fisherman when we were launching).

I went to a small sedge after sundown and had a few taps on it and lost a nice fish after about 2 seconds of play. That was it. It was just an odd night where the fish were taking a break from gorging themselves. My guess is that if the wind stays down this week, Community lake will start to produce the famous traveling sedge hatches that it is so famous for.

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