Pass Lake 10/28/2007

It was an average Pass day not super-hot and not super-cold. I stripped a minnow pattern about 90% of the time. I am guessing there were probably 9 fish to the net. Most of the fish came from the trail entrance at the middle of the lake by the road. The minnow patter had taken some violent hits and I missed a couple of big fish. The highlights were a 21bow, 20 bow and a 16 brown. I tried to get a picture of the brown but it would not sit still. It fought the hardest of all of the fish and was still fighting when I landed it. The coolest thing was watching the 20 incher rip through the grass in the shallows.The grass was moving and making noise as he pounded on my fly.

Rod: 4wt

Line: Full Sink

Pattern: Clown Leech

Weather: Overcast 55degrees

Time: Mid day

Pass Lake 10/13/07

Arrived at Pass at 5:45 am. There was a little over an hour left before daylight. I was anxious to fish the new 4 wt. Scooter was there and he was ready to go. As I hit the water, my line was tangled on my reel. I didn't get the chance to fish for another hour or so. By the time I had fixed my line it was 7:00 or so.
Started off in the cove with a white bugger and picked up a 6" minnow. After that I headed across the lake and to the point. I lost a decent fish on the way over. Things got slow as I headed down to the rock. I changed up to a peacock bugger. I picked up a few hits at the rock and scooter was having a slow time. I knew that there would be fish down at the far end of the lake so we headed down there.
At the reeds, I picked up a couple of hits instantly. As I trolled towards the road I picked up a 14 incher. I continued and landed a 16 incher. Now Scott changed to a minnow pattern and started catching fish. I change and pick up another couple of fish too but it begin to slow down for me. He needed to head back because he was hungry and had to leave. I think we left an area that we could have picked up a couple of more fish.

When we got back to our parking spot, I had a few brews. Scooter left and went home I continued fishing and headed back over to the point and back to the end of the lake. I went back to my peacock bugger. I picked up a decent fish but don't remember the size of it as I made my way back down the lake. It must have been 1:30 or so. As I continued, I picked up a few bumps but no fish as I made my way down the lake. As I hit the end of the lake I picked up a couple more fish but nothing special. Changed up to the minnow Scooter had given me and it wouldn't even buy a bite. I change to a couple of flys before heading to the small end of the lake again.
Before arriving at "the point" I picked up a decent fish. It had started to get dark and I saw a big fish cruising. I planted my fly right where he rolled and bam. "Fish on". It measured 21" (see pic). It made my day to have a worthy opponent on my 4wt.

Pass Lake