4-29 SS Spring Trout

4-29 SS Spring Trout

 Lake fishing trout with chronomids  in the spring.

 Our fly fishing genius, Josh Mills, recently called me with some great advice for those of you who want to go trout fishing on lake’s this spring.  Josh tells us it’s all about chronomids and without further ado: “So let’s say you find yourself on a lake with your fly rod and you are trying to fish chronomids which is an emerging midge pattern that fish key in on in the springtime which usually hatch in the shallows, you have thrown your flyer box at them and nothing is happening and all of a sudden the fish are starting to swirl on top, they are starting to just tip their nose up and take things off the surface, often times they are not taking the adult stage of the bug, something you would typically call a drive fly, what they are looking for  or keyed in on are called mergers. These are bugs that are between the nymph stage and the adult stage. A lot you will find these fish are looking for cripples where they can not shed their nymphful schuck. So you go by your self emerging style chronomids or mayflies or what ever that Lake has. These flies rest on the surface or just below the surface film. To a rainbow or a brown, that is just morsels of cake sitting on the surface. It draws trout in like crazy so when they are keyed in on that and you’re not having full success with jump out of the water takes but just swirling on top  those are the mergers they are eating go find some of those and you’ll find success.

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