Fished LNL 1-8

Plans got cancelled so decided to just pack up the tube and head over to LNL since it's only 15 min away. Got to the lake a little late around 9:00am and the guy tracking take and tickets that worked the lake said it was really slow and only a few fish. He said the fish recently stocked where fat and where in the middle of a "hatching". Not sure what that meant, but I figured it out after I got home. Shore guys soaking power bait seemed to be getting shut out.

I started off throwing the mira shad and didn't get any bites. Soaked a little power bait at the same time and nothing on that. Switched over to few other trout spoons with no luck. Watched a few fly guys pull in 3-4 fish and 1 good sized one so I knew the fish where there. Decided to throw some trout worms and various small lures and missed one bite. It's a little after 1 and only bite seems to be the fly guys. 1 guy got 2 said he was using midges deep. I didn't have any of those, but decided to go with an old tried and trusted super duper. I had the large one so tied it directly to my line and bounced it on the bottom. After about 30 min I got into a good 3lb fish. 10 min later a small 1.5 lb and 15 min after that I got a med 2lb fish. Seemed like I was the only one getting fish on the entire lake. My last fish snagged the line on the net and the lure broke off in it's mouth. While pulling the lure out it gave a little head shake and my lure went flying. I found a smaller super duper, but didn't get any bites for the rest of the day on that.
Decided to call it a day around 3:00pm.

I seemed to have located a couple of holes or ledges holding fish so I'm figuring out where the fish are.

Did a little bit of research on using flies with a water bubble and other type of floats so will pick up a few flies and hope I can figure out how to use those midges for the slow bites in the future.

I'll post a couple of pics tomorrow.

Cool report dude! What does a "hatching" mean? Im not big into trout and have no clue.

Ohh sorry about that I forgot to say. I found some info online that when the bugs are "hatching" the wild trout won't eat anything, but that. I did notice a ton of little moths on the water and actually noticed a small 1lb trout swimming a few inches under the surface next to my tube. A few other guys said they saw trout really close to the surface also. Not sure where the fish come from, but that's probably why the midges and flies worked for the fly guys.

Cool info....never knew that. I bet if you rigged a moth up you'd catch something too. I definitely need to catch some trout though...ive only tried once but it seems like a ton of fun on light gear.

I actually tried to catch a few. The problem is since they are stocker trout you don't know if they are feeding on the stuff in that lake now or the stuff from where every they are farmed at.

I enjoy trout fishing. I use ultra light poles small reels and 4lb test with a 2lb flouro leader. Some actually put up a good fight and will break the surface. Plus I love eating trout so that's one of the main reasons I go to the pay lakes. As long as I can catch at least 1 fish it sort of justifies the cost of paying since I actually buy trout from time to time anyway.

Great report yes a fly guy would benefit from the hatch everyone else is in for a tough day on the water. I hate when the fish are surfacing right next to you but you can do nothing about it.

Well I found a book called Kiana's Cast that is all about fishing flies using spinning gear so might pick up a copy for those tough fishing days.

cool report!