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I fished Corbett Lake last week and did very well.
Early morning there were a few mayflies and fish hit on adams and extended body
callibaetis. Also picked up two on cadis pupae (one was a pupae imitation, the
other a #16 softhackle with a peacock body). The damsels came out as thick as
can be about 8:30-9am. With a good imitation, patience, and either laying
it at the base of the reeds or targeting a moving fish, I was able to pick up
several on damsel dries. Only about a 50-60% hook up rate, and a lot of broken
off flies (until I went to 4x). They seem to hit the damsels quite hard from
below, and either were hooked very slightly in the upper lip, or they
practically inhaled it. Incidentally, though the nights were still quite
chilly, there was very little action for chironomids (and no
mosquitoes!).
It was warm last weekend, and at about 11am things
really slowed down. I put on my slime line and an olive sculpin, let it go deep,
and with an erratic retrieve picked up several, including one extremely large
fish (8-9 lbs). Wouldn't fit in the net.
For those who don't know, Corbett is a "husbanded"
lake. Peter (proprieter, cook, and bamboo rod builder) raises the fish, mostly
Kamloops strain, in ponds (has been doing it for almost 30 years I think, and
claims to have brought back the Douglas Ranch lakes from oblivion before a
parting of the ways when the developers took over). He had stocked about 100
monsters in the lake this spring (8 to 15+ lbs). I picked up the one mentioned
above, and a friend picked up a fish that had to be in the 15lb class...looked
like a short (24-25") fat steelhead. With the warm weather, they took a bit of
time to revive.
Has anyone been fishing in the Carabou area up
around Little Fort this year yet? I'd love hear how that's going for next
month.
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