Paulina Lake was really good yesterday for us with a strong chironomid bite going mid morning in 8 to 15 feet of water. Throat pump samples showed a majority of the pupa as #18-20 olives with some #14 chromes with a black banding and that is what we did best with right on the bottom.
We also caught fish on olive and white soccer moms, both stripping them on a 7 foot sink tips along the drop off’s and under an indicator with a red PT as the dropper which also accounted for a fair number of fish.
We did well (enough) on a jiggy beetle, surprisingly none on an Ant or Hippie Stomper which are normally go to flies for us there. Water temps are still mid to high 40’s. For the 3rd time in a row I’ve been there, the fish were feeding on the surface to something aggressively in the afternoon and I do not see to what???!!!! An episode of stump the chump in the making. What I collected yesterday with my aquarium net were a lot of juicy lady bug type beetles, bigger than the ones we see in the garden and make a wish when they land us. I suppose this is possible, and believe it or not I carry 2 foam lady bug patterns in my box, but they were much smaller than what I collected and I don’t know if that was what they were eating anyway.