August ended with our first time fishing the "hot spot" at North Fork Reservoir, "hot spot" seems to be a giant misnomer however as nothing was hot about it, except for the sunshine. H, Managed only a pea sized handful of nibbles using trusty old Chartruse Powerbait, and hooked one 12" rainbow. But I got completely skunked. Not a bite, nibble, nip...I was beginning to wonder if a single fish swam past my rigging at all. It certainly didn't feel like it.
Perhaps I was still working the "new rod smell" off of my Daiwa Laguna 6.6 carbon fiber rod. The rod worked flawlessly, this was my first time running an ultra light and there was a slight adjustment period to noticing small movements in the tip, from water fluctuations (or the irritating boat, speeding through the "no wake zone" that sent water crashing into the shore and successfully tangling my rig into the weed bed, but I promised I wouldn't talk about it.)
We stayed at the lake for only a couple of hours before deciding to move around a bit and make a day of it. We got in around 6:45am and left around 8:30am, it was a clear blue sky and the lake surface was like polished glass when we dropped our first lines. We visited 2 other lakes before finally settling down on the other end of North Fork Reservoir at Promontory Park. In that time before we left, we witnessed an older gentleman just north of us catch 3 nice sized "bows" in short order, and overheard him say that he was using red power bait eggs. We tried the red, the green, with sparkles, without sparkles, the patriotic smear, fireball eggs, even what has been called amongst friends as our secret weapon, the power maggot...didn't seem to be working. Maybe we spent too much time with the cats this morning before we hit the lake. Or maybe we just weren't in the right hole.
The 12" rainbow H caught. A good looking fish.
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