This was my first time fishing Blue Lake since it was rehabbed last year. If you had any doubts about the recovery of the lake since the rehab, put them aside. The fish are back and quite healthy. I got a bit of a late start for Blue and hit the water by 7:30. Blue is normally best fished from sunrise until 30 minutes after the sun hits the water so I shorted myself an hour of great fishing. As it was, I managed to get 3 to hand. A nice 14 incher, a fat 16 incher and a monster 20 incher that was really thick. The first two came on trolled wooly buggers on a type III full sink line. The big one came on an olive chironimid over the weed beds. I most likely missed a few more chances at fish by being slow to switch to the chironimids. I don't care for this type of fishing and don't switch to it until I am convinced that it is the only way to go. In 30 minutes of fishing I missed 2 others and landed the big guy.

Glad to see Blue Lake putting out the nice fish again.

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