Lots of smiles coming from guests fishing Tunkwa yesterday!
The storms threatening and passing through the area, surprisingly did not effect the action.
Bomber sized chironomids are hatching pretty good now in certain areas of the lake, and the guys that were on them, had a stellar day fishing.  Good, and in some cases, big numbers of trout, and some real heavy slabs in the mix as well. One of our regulars, reported having a double header with a pair of 6+ lb Tunkwa bruisers! Larger chironomid pattersn, in ASB red rib, Chironomid Candy, Terminators, and large red bloodworms, were the ticket. Guys are fishing a couple feet off the bottom, out of the weed edges. Worms under a float continues to be working as well, for other guests not fly fishing. Trollers are picking up the odd trout, but for better action, it's best to set up on the actively feeding trout.
It is time to be up here fishing Tunkwa, it's happening!!!

Chironomid hatches were not as intense today, but guys that found them, got into action, with trout close to the 8lb mark landed!!! Larger sized chironomids in static/red, "Terminators", and large red bloodworms, produced. Worms under the float produced today, but not as fast paced as yesterday.

Big Ken with a Tunkwa beauty!

Justin and Wendy with a nice one from this morning.

End of the day update...............

Despite a soggy start, we had a pretty good Bomber hatch today, and anglers dialed into it, did very well, larger ASB(anti static bag) patterns were producing.
Also guests fishing along the weed edges, just off the resort, have been steady into fish, even better to see, the kids are into them, with lots of good sized rainbows coming to net this afternoon!

Fishing pressure was light on Tunkwa this past while, with many of our regulars day tripping out to a local lake, that has been experiencing a great Damsel fly migration. We saw rainbows pulled out of Tunkwa this past week to 6 lbs, with smaller chironomids being the most consistent producer. yesterday, one of our guest set up in the shallows and fished balanced leaches, and caddis emergers under an indicator, and did pretty good. Despite last nights intense rain, we are noticing the birds working hard in the small bay in front of the resort, indicating a good chironomid hatch is occurring. Fish are still being caught along the shore lines, with worms fished under a float best.

Little wind along with the hot sunny weather made for some tougher fishing this week, a few small chironomid hatches, light fish activity made it hard to locate feeding fish. A 27 inch fish was c & r along with a number of 3-4 lb fish later in the afternoon after a significant hatch appeared and the fish were right on it for an hour while the hatch lasted, fishing at that time was excellent and things are shaping up for the upcoming bomber hatch expected to start any day and increase at the end of July and should peak the first week of August. Damsels are everywhere along the bullrushes but the fish are inactive. Trollers with gang trolls did catch fish in the morning hours.