Little Lava Lake was good yesterday but was also the slowest day I have had there all season. We never dialed in the nymph bite. We got a couple on Balanced Leeches (Bruised with orange bead) and Red PT under the indicator. But the fish were active on the Love Scope and doing what I normally see during a Callibaetis emergence which is feed above the weed beds and chase from the bottom (say 9 or 10 feet) up the water column to 5 or 6 feet under the surface. This has always been good for me on a few different callibaetis nymphs, usually the CB Cate and the Croston’s CB Nymph taking the prize. Not yesterday. I had on of the finest casters in my boat I could ever have yesterday, and I had him on a Type 3/5/3 parabolic full sink and a Booby with a Peacock Diawl Bach dropper and he caught a nice Brookie on that system. His son also caught a nice Brook Trout on a Red PT under the indicator just before that.
In the afternoon the Callibaetis hatch was good. The fish were P.I.C.K.Y. to the Max. The best fly was a Timberline Emerger with floating to keep it as a dry fly. A Harrop’s Captive Dun Callibaetis was also effective. They wanted that emerging profile for sure. And then the Beetle Bite happened and it was not epic like it can be, but it was good enough to provide some exciting takes and fish to the net.