MAINE - Life in the Slow Lane
Hi Shaun
I moved this post to the General forum, more appropriate.
See Yah
Lee
Quote by: Shaun HI've been keeping an eye on Profile Lake (I commute right past). Most of the spring its been pretty quiet. The past two evenings (4pm) I've been seeing a lot of surface feeding going on. Couldn't tell what was hatching but they were busy eating it.
Well what you waiting for son ? Get that rod and clean house my man . 
Quote by: Dave VQuote by: Shaun HI've been keeping an eye on Profile Lake (I commute right past). Most of the spring its been pretty quiet. The past two evenings (4pm) I've been seeing a lot of surface feeding going on. Couldn't tell what was hatching but they were busy eating it.
Well what you waiting for son ? Get that rod and clean house my man .
Agreed! Little tiny PT's copper johns and hares ears seemed to be hot up there recently. Give it a go man and let us know how how you do. I usually trail my tiny nymphs behind a heavy bugger or weighted streamer in open water like that. And if you have a float tube, I advise using it.
Good luck!
T~
Some big fish in that little pond. If they are breaking the surface try a BWO or Wulff with a small hairs ear or caddis nymph dropper. Otherwise they mostly feed deep there and if the raptors are circling they will only be along the treeline. A big bugger with a small nymph trailer like T-Bone said will get them going, it's gotta be right on the bottom though.
killed um' on just about any dries we tried on Sunday morning. hare's ear, buggers, bead heads did nothing.
Sounds like either the water conditions or the food had them high in the water column. Often times emergers work awesome in that situation too. If for some reason your dries started to lose their attention.
I am a huge fan of emergers trailed by tiny nymphs. By tiny I mean 18 to 20's not the 32's keith is becoming famous for. LOL.
Top water activity is a bit more exciting I think anyways, just have to remember that 80-90% (I have no legitimate sources for this) of trouts' feeding activities occurs subsurface. But that 10-20% on top is what fly fisherman live for. Not jsut the tug but seeing a fish rise and slam your fly is just awesome!
T~
Shaun and I hit Profile last week and when I got there the water was boiling. I tied on a #16 BWO with a #20 Hares ear trailer and started to cast to the rises. The takes were very light and required very careful timing. Long story short I landed about a dozen or more brookies all in the 10-12" range and lost probably 2-3 times that many. Shaun was wading and had a few hits but I believe he skunked.
I've been keeping an eye on Profile Lake (I commute right past). Most of the spring its been pretty quiet. The past two evenings (4pm) I've been seeing a lot of surface feeding going on. Couldn't tell what was hatching but they were busy eating it.