Hi Folks, Ran the boat twice yesterday guiding in the morning and evening for bass. Fished with spin gear in the morning and cast flies in the afternoon. Feels like summer with air temps. in the 80's. The sun is really intense right now. Water temperatures have warmed significantly in the last couple of weeks with surface temperatures between 64 and 68 degrees. Very little wind yesterday which was nice. Did see a few spawning beds yesterday with some big smallmouth holding over top of them. Fished an all smallmouth (smb)lake in the morning and combination of smb and largemouth bass (lmb) in the afternoon. The surface fishing was non-existent in the morning and pretty good in the afternoon. With the water being so low, the spawning beds I could see were in deeper water than previous years. Many of the smb were holding in deeper water betweem 10' and 15'. We did have a number of fish chase our offerings out into deeper water where I had the boat positioned. In the end we had to put a 5" green colored Senko on and good things began to happen. We landed 7 smallmouth and missed a lost a few others. The afternoon was slow for the first couple of hours and the picked up as the sun went down. We got largemouth and smallmouth to eat a black deer hair surface fly. We had a few fish come and investigate a frog popper but they all turned off. The color change and profile change seemed to make the difference. Kinda of fun fishing a lake where you not sure if a smb or lmb will eat your fly. Off to chase trout this morning. With the current weather pattern and early and late are the ticket. Remember to clean your gear and keep the non-native species at home. Have Fun, Willy
