Fly fishing Kemp Lake (Sooke)

[BrodieG]

Just recently got into fly fishing still water and have had real hit or miss luck. Some days I get 10 fish in an hour and others nothing in 3-4 hours.

Just wondering what techniques work well this time of the year. What flies and what kind of line se to work?

Im setup with a nice 6 weight rod and reel and have an assortment of different lines (floating, intermediate, type 3 full sink, and a type 6 full sink)

I have a rigged 12 ft aluminum aswell as a float tube to fish from

 

[Blackleech]

Just recently got into fly fishing still water and have had real hit or miss luck. Some days I get 10 fish in an hour and others nothing in 3-4 hours.

Just wondering what techniques work well this time of the year. What flies and what kind of line se to work?

Im setup with a nice 6 weight rod and reel and have an assortment of different lines (floating, intermediate, type 3 full sink, and a type 6 full sink)

I have a rigged 12 ft aluminum aswell as a float tube to fish from

I used to fish Kemp lake a lot when I lived there. Try the along the cabins on the west side and by the lillies in the bay at the north end of the lake. I have had success trolling a full sink with black leech patterns and rolled muddlers. There are some very nice cutts in this lake.

 

[BrodieG]

I have heard of some nice cutties in that lake but havent gotten one yet. I will have to troll around the sink line nice and slow next time im out and see what it can produce.

Thanks for the tips! I would of thought maybe the intermediate line would of pulled some fish put the other day as there was a lot of surfce action in the morning. Guess fishing slow and deep is the way to go.

 

[kunni]

I find that fishing deep works in december to february, I have been fishing an intermidiate sink, about 2-3 inch per second.

kunni

 

[BrodieG]

I find that fishing deep works in december to february, I have been fishing an intermidiate sink, about 2-3 inch per second.

kunni

How do you fish the intermediate line in that lake? Troll real slow or just cast then countdown and strip it back in?

Reason I ask is im new to this stillwater fly fishing and any more specific techniques and info is awesome. Thanks!

 

[outback]

How do you fish the intermediate line in that lake? Troll real slow or just cast then countdown and strip it back in?

Reason I ask is im new to this stillwater fly fishing and any more specific techniques and info is awesome. Thanks!

i usually go and stop for up to 30 seconds at a time, and then resume trolling - You can also cast, but trolling is gennerally more effective due to your line being in the water more often.

 

[Big Green Machine]

If you can locate the fish, what depth they are at, and what they're feeding on, cast and retrieve will work better, but as others have said, a slowly trolled fly with pauses, turns , changes in speed is a great place to start.

 

[kunni]

like Big Green Machine said, unless you can actually find fish it will be more effective to troll really slow.

kunni

 

[BrodieG]

Thanks for all the tips guys. Im going back out sunday morning in the float tube and do some nice slow trolling.

 

[BrodieG]

Well I fished for a few hours on saturday and got skunked on the fly rod! Tried trolling a few different patterns at all different depths and nothing! Ended up pulling out the spin gear and hammered 8 of them within an hour (10-12" nothing bigger)

Went out again today nice and early and dodnt get anything on the fly rod again! Went home and warmed up and ended up going back around 1 this time leaving the fly rod at home. Ended up landing atleast 15 on the spinning gear! Biggest was a big fat 15" that was about a pound and a half.

 

[bee15]

if you getting 10 fish an hour what more do you want????