We initially planned on fishing the Bidwell Ponds but last minute I thought about fishing somewhere the boys had not fished before. I thought the sight fishing at Lewiston Lake might be fun for the boys. I checked the weather forecast for Lewiston Ca. the night before we left and it said “sunny with 5-6 mph ESE winds”. When we arrived in Anderson to meet up with Pop B (Benson Kanemoto), he informed me that he just checked the Weather Channel forecast it it called for NNW wind at 19 mph by Noon! With that kind of wind it would make the fishing difficult and it would not be worth going up there. However my forecast I got the night before was from the WeatherUnderground so I looked it up again and the forecast was the same as the night before. SO, which forecast was correct, the Weather Channel’s 19mph NNW wind or WeatherUnderground’s 5-6 mph ESE?? We left for Lewiston to find out.
When we arrived the wind was very light (below 5mph) and coming from ESE. We saw fish working midges immediately and we put on small midge pupaes to match the hatch. The boys were a bit rusty on their casting at first since they had not fly fished for trout since last summer. They got their casting stroke back relatively quick and all was good.
The boys sight fished to many trout and they thought it was such a fun way to fish. By the end of the day Michael had landed 14 and Matthew 11. They lost a bunch of fish too. Matthew also caught his first Kokanee salmon.
Having Pop B guide us was such a treat. There is no one that I know that has more trout experience than he does. It’s amazing how much he knows about the different fisheries and the subtleties of the flies that fish eat. I learned a lot that day.
So back to the weather. The wind shifted to NNW mid morning and then back to ESE later in the day. The wind got to as high as 8 mph or so but that’s it. I think WeatherUnderground won this battle!
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That looks like lots of fun! Cant wait to fish with you this summer. Cool Midge Pupa.