Fishing here and there

Fishing has been spotty since I got back from Terrace. Some days have been pretty good, while other days have been slow. On the bright side, we finally tried out a lake we'd driven by, but never fished, ever since we've been coming to Tunkwa. What a pleasant surprise! It has wild fish that fight well, and the best bomber chironomid hatch I've seen so far this year. Here are some pics from a couple of days of fishing the new (to us) lake:

A rare calm day on our "new" lake

There are some nice fish in there

There are some bombers, too!

Spratley in an old homestead we found during a shore break

Another nice fatty

It's usually like this, which is why we never stopped to fish it!

The fish still bite, though!

Chironomids have a tough life. Fish eat the pupa, and if birds don't get the adults, damselflies get 'em.

We've also fished some other local lakes lately. Wendy had her first ever trip up to Island (Big OK) Lake the other day when we went up with Brad & Shawna. Fishing was OK, but not as good as earlier this summer. Most of the fish were skinny and/or dark - quite a contrast to the nice fish we were catching in July. We also fished Morgan Lake; it was slow with mostly small, dark fish caught. We popped down to check out the Thompson at Savona a couple of days ago, and we saw a steady stream of sockeye swimming by. Not much chance for trout when there are so many sockeye around!

Happily, fishing picked up here at Tunkwa a few days ago and we got into some nice fish.

We're getting some nice fish from Tunkwa these days 

 Alison, Lucas, Mom and Jim came for a visit a couple of days ago, and the wind commenced to howling, so we haven't fished for a couple of days.
Alison, Lucas, Jimmy and I went for a 4x4 trip up to Greenstone Mountain yesterday - stay tuned for pix from the old forest fire lookout up there!

Cheers! KW