Three of us fished Nunnally from 10am to 6pm yesterday. We walked
into the eastern end where we had it all to ouselves. The weather was
bright and calm with an occassional little breeze to ruffle the
waters until about three, when a full scale windstorm blew up.
The water was weed choked. The weeds were up to within a foot of the
surface, which was fine for Scott and Earl (a fellow listmember) who
both had inflatables, but not for me, in my u-boat - I had to kick my
butt through the weeds when my feet weren't entangled.
The fishing was the best any of us had ever had at Nunnally. The fish
were big and strong and were up on callibaetis almost all day. It was
technically demanding, in that, we were fishing skinny water where
the fish were extremely wary and in some places, a slow moving
current moved over the weeds, making it necessary to fish it as you
would a spring creek. The fish were cruising in circles and picking
off duns with audible slurps while leaving the smallest of rings. And
when hooked, you had to immediately hold the rod up high and let them
take as little line as possible to keep their heads out of the weeds.
We used 3x tippet, which held the fish, but was probably the reason
we didn't hook more fish than we did.
Earl and I each had five to hand and Scott landed a dozen. We all had
numerous breakoffs, lost fish to weeds, long releases, and
rejections. Scott used a #10 weighted GRHE and caught good fish
during the windstorm and Earl caught one on an adult damselfly (he
also caught and released a turtle). Scott and I each landed a brown
while the rest were rainbows. I don't think we caught any fish under
three pounds and my largest was a whopping 25 inches.
Leland.
