Some brutally cold early mornings up here has made fishing hard to do! But, when temps have improved and the wind settled down, the trout have been biting. Fishing shallow has been productive, same patterns as previous reports. Fish are being caught of the resort dock as well.

Productive Fly patterns from this week.

A windy week has kept most of the water. Guest getting out when the weather breaks have been doing good, with some nice trout being caught. Even nice fish coming in off the resort dock. Fish are shallow and hitting a variety of presentations. Pumkinhead, olive K-Marts, Micro Leaches in Olive or black or marroon, have all been producing. Slow trolled Kwikfish or HotShots in the usual colours, have been working as well. Fall fishing can be fristrating dealing with Mother Nature, but the rewards are well worth it!

Cooler, more seasonable temps in the Tunkwa area have helped drop water temps and get the fish going. Several reports in from Saturday indicated fishing was pretty good, with reports of 10+ fish boated from sevarl different groups, with fish over 4lbs. Fishing olive or maroon micro-leach patterns very shallow, above the weeds, and very close to shore was the best presentation. Also heard of some nice fish caught on light green scud patterns fished in the same places. Sunday morning started off beautiful, but a strong NE wind picked up, pretty well keeping everyone off the lake today. Fishing pressure has been light, with as many guest in to hunt as fish. No reports in from neighbouring Leighton Lake, but another lake close by, at a lower elevation, was producing very good this past week, as well. Don't put your rods away yet, the best is still to come, mid Oct. till freeze up can see some of the best fishing of the year. Falling water temps, with stable, sunny weather seems to be the key triggers to get the trout putting on the feed, knowing winter is approaching fast.

Cooler weather the past few days has dropped the water temperature by a few degrees which has resulted in the fishing to pick up today as anglers trolling F-4 kwikfish in cracked frog have been doing well off the weed bed by the provincial campground, guest fishing off the point at cabin 17 with a worm and bobber have been doing quite well this afternoon. Fish have been seen jumping and porpiousing around the weed beds throughout the day for a change, the sign of fall fishing it appears has slowly started to pick up after several weeks of slower than normal fishing. We had our first good dusting of snow in the hills surrounding Tunkwa this morning which has now melted but with that will be water full of nutrients delivered back to the lake in natures way with the cycle of life. Water boatman are not yet very abundant but with the freezing nights forecast that should change.

Fall came in with a blast! Saturdays wind storm was something else, with winds up to 65 kms, it sure got Tunkwa rough. No one could fish the lake from a boat yesterday afternoon, but shore bound anglers still had success despite the conditions. We saw a beautiful 2.5 lber pulled off the dock by a young guests fishing a Kwikfish, and guests fishing worms under a float, from shore, got into trout as well. Prior to the big winds, many fish were being caught, mostly from the water above the weed beds using various presentations. Sunday morning, we awoke to clear, calm, but very cool conditions, with temps below the freezing mark, and we are seeing fish start to come in again. With the upcoming forecast for this week, fall has definitely arrived!