Deanna Grant landed this beauty Tunkwa Rainbow this weekend, on a perch coloured Kwikfish.


Report:
A weekend of unsettled weather with lots of rain! What a wet season so far!
 The majority of our guest were out fishing a "Loche" style tournament over at HVC. Other Guests who took advantage of the breaks in the weather at Tunkwa got into fish. Again, trolling seemed to be the best presentation, with hardware doing the trick. Gang Trolls ahead of wedding bands, Perch coloured HotShots or Kwikfsih, or Watermelon coloured Apex's, all accounted for fish. Wet fly patterns, like Caddis Emergers, K-Marts, and Pumpkinheads, provided hook ups as well. Some guests hit fish on chironomids, but they had to find actively feeding fish, copper or yellowish brown(carrot) colours seemed to be the best bet.

Mixed reports from guests day tripping to area lakes....Leighton has been kinda hit and miss the past few days. Logan Lake has had a couple flurries of action, but shutting down as quick as it started. Mayfly hatches at a couple of the lakes, just down the road, has petered off a bit.

When some stable weather hits the region, we should see fishing get more consistent all over, and Tunkwa will be producing more of the giant rainbows that are in there waiting.

Tunkwa area has had a few straight days of more seasonal weather, with lots of sun and warm temps. This was very welcomed to see!
Lake levels are still up, but holding steady, water temp is still in the 50's. We've started to see a few mayflies hatches start up, but still no damsels. Chironomid hatches have been light and infrequent. Flying ants have been hatching/migrating this past week.
Fishing reports from guests, are mixed, but overall good, biggest trout to just over 5 lbs. Trollers are doing the best, and a few nice trout are being taken by guests fishing off the shore at the resort. Chironomid fishing has been very slow. Various wet, or attractor patterns in greens or dark browns have been the ticket. Mayfly Nymphs (size 16 or 14), MiniMarts, Pumpkinheads, Micro leaches and Caddis Puppea have all been working, when trolled about 3' under the surface. Worms fished under a slip float, set about 2' off the bottom, has been producing some good action as well. Trolling kwikfish in perch pattern have resulted in hook ups as well.
Guests day tripping to a couple of the area lakes (at lower elevations) have seen some incredible mayfly hatches, and have gotten into some great surface action. Darker Tom Thumbs and CDC's fished just under the surface film have been good presentations. Chironomid fishing on these lakes, and a few others in the area, has been slow as well.

Fishing has been good this week for guests trolling wet fly patterns. K Mart Specials, PumpkinHeads, Doc Spratleys, or 52 Buicks, trolled a few feet under the surface have been producing fish into the mid 4 lb range. Trolling hardware hasn't been producing like the flies. Some chironomid action has been reported, with the trick being to set up on actively feeding trout, and right on top of the hatching chironies. Size 12 in dark green or black have been working.
Leighton Lake has been fishing OK as well, mainly chironomid fishing, trolling has been slow there.
Guest day tripping to nearby lakes are commenting on some incredible mayfly hatches, with action on emerging nymph patterns, and then on dries (Tom Thumbs) when the trout switch over to the surface.

Couple of the better ones that Janet caught fishing an "original JohnKent PumkinHead" fly.

Justin nailed this one on a small hotshot, it was one of several he landed that morning,

Fishing action definitely picked up this weekend, with lots of trout on the cleaning table. Stomach samples showed the trout were actively feeding on bloodworms (green or red) and smaller bright green chironomids (choaborous). The huge winds the area received on Friday, really got the lake stirred up, but seemed to stimulate the trout into putting on the feedbag. On windy days, guests have been day tripping out to smaller lakes in the nearby area, and having good success, as well.  Trollers on Tunkwa were into fish, with green toned Kwikfish or Hotshots being the better produces. Some better fish have been caught on bright red or orange Kwikfish as well. We have been seeing off the resort dock, one extremely large rainbow trout, easily in the 7 lb class, and he is dragging a big gang troll behind him.....we can only imagine the the story about the big one getting way from the angler that hooked into him.

9yr. old Corbin Timothy with a nice Tunkwa rainbow tricked fishing a chironomid, while fishing with Dad and Grandad.

Jocelyn and Julia each pose with their first fish ever! Fishing with Dad and Grandad, trolling Kwikfish produced some great catches.