Pleasantly surprised

I never really post on here but felt like sharing this one. Decided to fish Blackmans for a brief session before it gets stocked just to see if anything is actually in the lake. Drifted around for about 45 minutes with no luck and then decided to fish the eastern bank of the lake since the wind was pushing me that way anyways. Anchored up in about 18ft of water an casted to the south eastern bay (i guess you could call it that). Had indicator with balance leech and chormie on a dropper on one rod doing its thing (with no luck) and a midge tip with three flies on another rod slowly retrieving. On about the 4th cast this little fellow decided to eat the red cheek buzzer on the pause in my retrieve. Just so happens to be my personal best out of that lake. Took a throat sample and everything it was eating was no bigger than a size 18 fly. Had the midge tip rigged with 15ft leader, three flies evenly spaced, blood worm on point, red cheeked buzzer as middle dropper and diawl bach on top dropper.

 

[skyriver]

Nice work! Catching holdovers before the plants is very satisfying.

I might have to finally succumb to the midge tip line...one of these days. Probably next year. Haha!

 

[TheNautiCoug]

Thanks, if I had not gone to that setup I would never had gotten into that fish.