Fished today with Roney and John Foley at Algonkian from 7 to 10:30am. Cloudy, calm day with a few sprinkles. Water was stained with visibility about 2'.
River was covered with tiny (1/8") white flying insects. Where the insects were the thickest on the surface, smallies were sucking them down with great regularity...as were some carp too. Anyway, we caught a ton of smallies, but most were small with only about 20% of the fish between 12" - 15'. Most of the fish were caught on 3" Rapala floating minnow lures. Just had to watch the surface, see where the fish were eating the flies, and try to land your lure nearby. Almost every well-placed cast produced a fish. Sorry, but no pictures as the fishing was too much fun to stop for pictures.
Does anyone know what the white insects might have been? Not sure how long this hatch lasts, but when it occurs, fishing is great.
Bruce
p.s. same message posted on Pacemaker Forum...
River was covered with tiny (1/8") white flying insects. Where the insects were the thickest on the surface, smallies were sucking them down with great regularity...as were some carp too. Anyway, we caught a ton of smallies, but most were small with only about 20% of the fish between 12" - 15'. Most of the fish were caught on 3" Rapala floating minnow lures. Just had to watch the surface, see where the fish were eating the flies, and try to land your lure nearby. Almost every well-placed cast produced a fish. Sorry, but no pictures as the fishing was too much fun to stop for pictures.
Does anyone know what the white insects might have been? Not sure how long this hatch lasts, but when it occurs, fishing is great.
Bruce
p.s. same message posted on Pacemaker Forum...
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