1

Yes

Partly Cloudy

56

Yes

Small Hatch of Callibaetis

4-5ft/10-12ft depending

Olive Leeches and Juju chironomids

Scuds

GO DEEP

1

No

Sunny

Less than 10mph

Medium black wooly bugger with a bright red bead head. Black articulated streamer

Keep trying different flies to see what works for that day.

I caught a grand slam! Rainbow, brown, brook and tiger trout and all were fat! Thanks, Erik!

2

Yes

Sunny

Calm till lunch shifting to 15 mph head on wind

No

1-5 foot deep

Leeches,streamers, and scuds

Dries

2

No

Cloudy

NA

NA

Yes

Caddis Hatch towards the end of the day

3-4' under a hopper and 7-12' under an indicator

Olive/org leech,Blk/Purple Leech, Size #10 hares ears, Spanish bullet perdigons, duracells

worms, orange scuds, chironomids

cast to any rising fish within reach. Perdigons worked the best 4' under hoppers. leeches and hares ears or Callibaetis nymphs worked best 7-12' deep. All fish were hooked more than 12 feet or further from the shore

It rained shortly after we had arrived in the afternoon. We got into fish right out the gates and soon after the rain had passed. We tagged 12 fish total between the 2 anglers. None of the giant fish were landed, they continued to swim into the weeds around the dam and breaking off

1

No

Cloudy

Mostly Calm

Unknown

No

5 feet.

Olive or black balanced leech, ice cream cone chironomid.

Scuds usually work, but didn't get any takers on scuds today.

If no wind, crawl the rig in with hand crawl.

Another awesome day. Landed two huge rainbows, a tiger, and a nice brown. Missed probably 4 other strikes.

1

No

Sunny

mild

best was a black with white "eyes" booby, also balanced leach and small black leach

Very large streamers, small midges

The general vicinity of the aerators was best. Also, a little off the dam and in the middle of the lake between the dam and the aerators. I used #3 tippet but wished I had some #2 tippet because a couple of large ones broke off.

Had a productive day on a pontoon belly boat: 8 landed fish including a 22"and 20" or so rainbows, plus healthy browns. Early is probably best. Great property!!

1

Sunny

2-4mph

No

5-6 ft to bottom fly

Dorsey’s uv scud, balanced bruised leech

Only spent 30 at the lake and saw some great fishing. Went 5 for maybe 10 fishing about 20 ft off the bank. Two big brookies, two big browns & a beautiful 27” buck bow. Fish ran hard and put up quite a fight. Couldn’t believe The fishing I saw in only 30 minutes!

9

Yes

Sunny

5-10mph

61-70

Yes

Damsels, chronomids and some calis

5-8ft

Damsels, green/blk leeches, chronomids

Nymph rigs

Stop fishing when temperate gets to 67 degrees and make sure to revive the fish before realizing them! Keep them alive so they stay in lake and continue to get bigger!

9

Yes

Sunny

10-15

60’s

Yes

Damsel & chironomid

Early 8-10ft later 5-7ft

Mayers Damsel, black & white chironomid #12, scuds

Callibaetis

Fish the bugs that are hatching and just adjust your depth

Fish near the dam

9

No

Partly Cloudy

Yes

olive and black leeches, red chironomids, red copper johns, rainbow warriers

orange scuds

Last season, scuds worked great at this lake but we didn't have any luck with them today. Olive leeches had the most success.

Went shallow shore and wade fishing with the Project Healing Waters group today. It was a fun day with participants of all ability levels. Two of the seasoned anglers caught personal bests—one even topped his first catch with an even bigger rainbow trout!

1

No

Sunny

Light breeze with a few stronger guests throughout the day

59-62 degrees

No

In 8-10 feet of water, fished weed beds at 5 1/2 to 7 feet below service.

olive + rust balanced leech. Small purple leech. Gunmetal + red chironomid pupa.

Orange scuds did not attract any bites.

Drifted/retrieved flies under an indicator.

I fished Bar Star Lake 2 weeks ago and managed only one hookup (did not land her). It was my first attempt at stillwater fishing for trout from my float tube. Today, I hooked 10-12 trout and landed most of them. Although I don't take my fish out of the water, at least 3 of the Rainbows were around 24" and thick. The rest of the trout were a mix of Brown and Rainbow trout and ranged from 12-20". I strongly recommend 3x leaders to bring the fish to net more quickly and barbless hooks to reduce handling of these magnificent fish. It was a special day at Valholl Ranch.

2

Yes

Partly Cloudy

10. Gusts to 15-20

Unknown

Yes

BWO, damsel fly nymphs

18-20” to first fly, 12” to second fly

Black Pat’s Rubber Legs, black/brown Pat’s, Olive balanced leech, brown/orange scud

Two-bit hooker, Bruised balanced leech

Stay less than 10 feet out from the dam

Fantastic day with absolutely huge rainbows. Unpredictable feeding patterns and columns, but be patient and change things up if the “catching” is stale.

9

Yes

Partly Cloudy

6 mph W

54

Yes

2 feet

Olive Leach, Orange Scud, Red Worms

Woolies

5 to the net, 4x not to net. Many in group new to Stillwater

2

Yes

Partly Cloudy

12 SSW

54

Yes

Chironomid

2 feet

Olive Leaches and Orange Scud

When sun came out action started

6 to net twice that not to net

7

Yes

Partly Cloudy

7 SSW

54

6 feet

chironomids

leaches, scuds, everything else

Between 4 boats - 12 strikes, 8 hooked, and 4 landed. Slow day.