East Lake was good to very good this week. Tuesday we had to leave early and just got some morning nymph action. Wednesday and Thursday we saw good to very good callibaetis dry fly fishing between 11 AM and 1:30 PM
Beetles and Ants were both good this week before and after the mayfly hatch. Not much on hoppers for my boat, but Michael had some good action on a yellow hopper, where I stuck with my favorite pink hopper.
Nymphing with a callibaetis cate, red jig PT, poxyback callibaetis, assassin and chironomids have been productive under an indicator or stripped with a ghost tip, hover or intermediate, and if you have a sea anchor/drogue you can wind drift from 30′ to 10 or 12′, covering a lot of territory usually with good results.
Bank angling has been fairly good. Keep an eye peeled for damsels too.
I will rate East lake as our best (or tied for best with its neighbor) lake at the moment.
Water temps are 62 in the morning and I have not seen more than 65 yet. Troy said he saw 68 to 70 on one part of the lake. I worry a little about the upcoming week so I hope all of us will watch what happens after lunch.
I have not had a tremendous amount of success with deep dangled presentations. I see them down there moving on my live scope, and sometime there are a lot of fish and I can even tell they are swirling and circling the flies….but eating it. Not so much. Not yet.
I would also recommend anchoring in 16 to 18′ and fishing a slip strike indicator with 2 chironomids. Usually red on the bottom and black with a red rib on the tag 2 feet up from the point fly. Olive chironomids, assassins, chromie and blobs are good flies to cycle on your line too. Change the fly after 15 minutes with no takes.