So, just spent a couple days in north central WA with my husband. We kayak fished one lake on Wed and each caught a number of decent trout - he on spinners and I on flies, almost all out in deeper water. Nothing in shallow.
Thursday we hit another lake only a few miles away from the first. No weather change, similar topography.
Husband managed one fish on a dick nite over several hours. Despite marking fish and trying lots of stuff, neither of us caught a single fish in deeper water. On the other hand, I caught dozens on flies - dries, buggers, leeches, a crazy charlie, whatever, but all within 4 feet of shore, along the entire shoreline of the place, from mid morning to early afternoon. I saw no bait being chased, and nothing obvious they were feeding on.
???
So much for figuring trout behavior out!
They were sticking so tight to shore that I started worrying that there was something in the deeper water that they were afraid of
Thursday we hit another lake only a few miles away from the first. No weather change, similar topography.
Husband managed one fish on a dick nite over several hours. Despite marking fish and trying lots of stuff, neither of us caught a single fish in deeper water. On the other hand, I caught dozens on flies - dries, buggers, leeches, a crazy charlie, whatever, but all within 4 feet of shore, along the entire shoreline of the place, from mid morning to early afternoon. I saw no bait being chased, and nothing obvious they were feeding on.
???
So much for figuring trout behavior out!
They were sticking so tight to shore that I started worrying that there was something in the deeper water that they were afraid of