I was at one of the lakes that the Ottawa Fly Fishers adopted to supplement stocking of Rainbows. I started to fish the dropoff with a wet flies that in the past had been successful at this time of year while occasionally casting a dry fly towards the center of the lake. Usually one casts to 'wood' on shore but for some reason, this lake is different. Sure enough, there was a rise to the dry with no action on the wet. This went on for awhile. Catching on the dry but nothing on the wet. All in all, after four hours I had landed 18 small trout. I abandoned the wet line and fished exclusively dry flies, my favorite method of flyfishing. It is exciting to see the fish rise to the fly, even miss. As the fish were small, I was using my 3wt rod. I don't think the actual fly matters all that much. It should be a good fly but if they are feeding they will take it. I did note that a darker Caddis seemed to work better a lighter version. As well, I was getting better hookups subsurface, so no need to keep putting on the gunk.
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