Skunked at Muir
 

Was at Muir lake last night . Lots of fish feeding, some jumping right out of the water. Could not find a tempting fly. Any ideas on what the fish may have been feeding on. I did see some insects hatch and come rocketing rig out of the water- no wing drying time at all.

Cronimids...try olive green or black and white size 18

I've found a flashy scud a foot and a half under an indicator works good there too

Went last night off the shore caught 7 on a balanced leech about a foot under an indicator, keep it to yourself though seem to get ridiculed for catching fish less than 20 inches

7 is a pretty respectable day no matter if they are 6 inch or 20 as far as im concerned.

Seems unlikely that there would be a lot of 20 inch fish now since was only restocked last year after the winter kill. Before that I had some 12 to 15 fish days but only a few pushing 20 inches. Anyway, you got me interested in going back again since never fished Muir last year and haven't been this year yet.

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I'm guessing choronomids were coming back to the water to lay eggs. Hard to imitate, like has been said i would try a leech under an indicator.

Only fished it maybe 3 times last year and found the whole area on the dock side almost unfishable ( don't know if that's a proper word, before i get told off again ) because of weeds

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