A cool Northwesterly trough moved in yesterday with dropping temps with some early evening  showers with a snow/rain mix this morning. Temps are 3 Deg. this morning with a moderate Northwesterly wind. Tomorrow and Tuesday it warms up nicely which will turn  on some hatches, midweek the temps drop until the weekend where it looks nice with highs in the upper teens. The warmer spells with the sunshine made for happier fish to feed as the food became more available.

Fish are being caught in deeper water prior to this weekend with sporadic short chironomid hatches with some doing well and others not doing well. Casting and stripping in shallow water has been productive with small green, black, black and red leeches and the vampire leech. Scuds on the type 1 slow stripped caught fish. A few damsel shucks have been seen, throat samples showed the odd damsel nymph, no adults have been seen yet. It’s 3 weeks early to see damsels, typically at the end of the month early June they start to come off.

Mixed reports this weekend, Friday was very windy, less wind yesterday. Leeches, small chironomids and damsel nymphs picked up fish along with a worm under a float, very small Dick night spoons and Fox Tail spinners casting and retrieving. Throat samples showed small(16 and smaller)  chironomids, baby damsel nymphs’, the odd large damsel nymph,  Hyalella scuds(small scuds) and some daphnia reports. Water temps were around 50 before this weekends cooler pattern came through. Snow has moved on with blue skies and winds 10-15 km currently.