August 17-23 -- Virginia Lakes Resort Fish Report
Weather: - 7am Temp Sunrise/Sunset - Moon is done and so is the fishing pressure. Aside from spaceflight, we've got a rare "Black Moon" on Aug. 23, meaning it will be the third new moon in a season that contains four new moons. While the moon will be invisible on that night, it will set up a few gorgeous thin crescents in the nights that follow.
| Sunday |
41° |
6:13-7:48; |
Clear and calm and cold! A sparse number of leaves are turning yellow which will increase daily. |
| Monday |
41° |
6:13/7:47 |
Clear calm with light breeze and getting very warmer and it stayed warm all day. |
| Tuesday |
45° |
6:14/7:49 |
Clear. |
| Wednesday |
46° |
6:15/7:44 |
Clear and calm with a few afternoon breezes. |
| Thursday |
49° |
6:16/7:43 |
Calm, clear. |
| Friday |
52° |
6:17/7:41 |
Very warm, but we got 3 minutes of rain. |
| Saturday |
51° |
6:18/7:40 |
Clouded up fast and lots of thunder and a little lightning, but it rained for several hours until around 6pm. |
August started out great and the moon is starting to show. Pressure has diminished on all the lakes as school has resumed for the year in most areas. We are still getting stocked weekly, which has been a blessing to handle the fishing pressure.
BAIT: Again, it's the same as last week except for crawlers big and little have been doing a great job. Mice tails pink/white head, chartreuse w , Chartreuse/white head, power bait: pick a color it will probably work and don't forget the pinched crawlers.
LURES: 1/6 oz Red/gold Buoyant, silver Kastmaster, black yellow dots Panther Martin, and any gold spoon. Stay on the small size for lures in gold or silver. Fishing is still great but you might have to work at a bit. Mornings are nice and parking is easier.
FLY AND BUBBLE: This report stays the same so continue to try some small searching patterns, Adams parachute #16, black caddis #16, small mosquito and Griffith's Gnats should do well when the sky has some cloud cover. The upper lakes haven't had much action except on a Black gnat parachute, olive elk hair caddis, and Griffith's Gnat. But not many anglers using this method this week. Everyone wants to catch a big one both lower lakes are still overcrowded to say the least.
FLY RODS: This week has been filled with several hatches probably due to the increased temperature. Light dun in color toward a dark grey. Some streamers were doing well later in the week; light olive BH and Virginia lakes special (olive Matuka with red throat). Some caddis emergers were showing up on my lodge neon lights the last couple evenings, and no one tried midges. Still early in the season, but the fishing has been great!
BACKCOUNTRY: Not a lot of reports from the hikers as most of them don't fish. Oh well, not my thing.
NOTE: If you use a RAG on the fish or you let it flop on the shore or rocks when removing hooks, the fish is yours, or if the trout bleeds DO NOT throw it back into the lake, it will die. If you care about the resource please be careful when releasing fish back into the water, it hurts the resource and also attracts bears!
We have two bears, a black one with a white nose and a brown one with a collar that is being tracked, and another showed up with 2 cubs. But probably won't stay due to the other two in the area.
Carolyn
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