It's been a while now since I've seen or let alone touched a trout (not to mention almost a full month since my last post -- ouch). Last trout contact was somewhere around the end of March or early April. That has to be a record for me. For the first time in a long time, I didn't hit any stillwater at ice-off. I didn't fish the Green during the Baetis hatch. Ouch again.
In the meantime, I've been chasing the bucketmouths and a few fiesty bluegill around. Pelican Lake on a 21 1/2 Foot Cobra Bass boat is the way to go. We hunted largemouth all day long and I took some time here and there to hook into a few nice bluegills too. I found that even small bass like to ambush fish close to their size (small 1/0 Bluegill imitation) (top picture).
Then after spending 15 hours on the water, we get attacked by a swarm of some sort of Trico hatch focused just on our boat and saw a cool sunset (props to the Cheechster for the sweet photos)
And a nice sunset....
And finally, a wicked awesome day on the Stans Berries throwing the Tiki Fly where the pigs were abundant and my arm was full-on sore at the end of the day. Thanks Cheech!
