Some incredible chironomid hatches on Tunkwa today, with the birds out feeding on them heavier then I've ever seen! More bigger sized chironies are coming off. Anglers searching for and working actively feeding trout(not just jumpers shaking lice) were reward with good numbers and better sized rainbows. I had a couple of successful anglers report really good success today fishing 'bomber' sized chironies today! Browns, dark greens and black patterns being best priducers today. Fish on the cleaning table today were gorged with bigger dark chironies.
Fishing has been incredible this spring! 

Tunkwa continued to fish pretty good, but winds made it a bit tougher to set up. Lots of smaller fish to sift through to get to the bigger ones. Sundays gusty winds kept most anglers off the lake and fishing some smaller more protected options nearby. Chironomid continue to produce best, brighter greens, "rootbeer' and black silver were the better patterns. Size 14 and 12 are about right. Water temps on the surface are holding steady at 59-60F, and lake level has crested and is now receding slightly.
Trollers are hooking up as well, with all the usual presentations producing when put at the right depth over actively feeding fish.
Guests fishing Leighton reported it fished well, with size 14 chironomids in ASB, with brown rib, and a copper head being deadly.
Weather is back to more seasonable temps, but still sunny and dry.

We're starting to see some bigger chironomids hatching, and showing up in stomach samples.

Chiromomid fishing continued to be excellent today.
Tunkwa surface water temps are a steady 59-60F, and water clarity is better then anyone can ever remember. Good hatches were coming off with more larger sized chironies in the mix. Todays hot pattern was "chironomid candy" in size 14. various Greens and ASB patterns produced fish as well but the "candy' pattern far outfished them!!! 2' off the bottom in 7 -9' of water was hot. Action was steady, and fishing 2 rods was a challenge at times. Fish to 3.5lbs were brought to net, super bright and very acrobatic, jumping like crazy! Good time to be fishing Tunkwa.

Dick Bartletts 'Chironomid Candy' pattern, tied with either a Chartreuse or white bead, deadly pattern on Tunkwa the past couple days!

Chironomid fishing really turned on, with some steady action and bigger fish. Fish to just over 5lbs came to net. Setting up on smaller areas fish were funelling through was key.
Chironomids tied in 'Kelly Green' in a size 14 was the hot pattern.

Tunkwa has been basked with beautiful sunny, warm weather the last while, this is how spring should be! Lake level is still slowly rising, and surface water temps are approaching the 60F mark. Fish are very active, and are jumping all over the lake. Quite a few fish have been caught off the resort docks, with worm and bobber being best, but small spinner or lighter weight spoons working as well. On the weekend trollers were into a few fish but working for them, with many fish holding suspended around the 7' mark.  A couple boats this monring, trolling half and falf "sunflashes" with Frog coloured HotShots run about 24" behindthem did excellent, landing well over a dozen fish apiece in a short time, some good sized rainbows as well. Trolling a Kwikfish, weighted slightly and slowed trolled have accounted for some nice trout for other guests as well.
Reports from chironomid fisherman are mixed, with some doing very well, and other not so well, again setting up on actively feeding fish is key! Whiskey Dicks, Red/Black, Black/silver rib and ASB(anti-static bag) red rib in size #14 have been the better patterns. We have seen the bigger trout being caught on green Spratley's, Carey Specials, fished mid-depth on intermediate sink lines, with fish to just over 5lbs being caught.
Lots of flying ants have been hatching the past few days, something we haven't seen here in a number of years, trout are plucking them off the surface.
Area lakes have been fishing well, with some god reports coming from Leighton the past couple days...anything green and sparkley, they're saying!
Weather forecast for the next while continues to be unbelievably fantastic, making it a great time to come up and fish.