Little Dell - 03/06/2020

[Joe_Dizzy]

Sorry for the delay here (had log-in issues)…

Fished Little Dell Reservoir on Friday afternoon, beautiful day, but unfortunately only the middle (~40%) of the lake is open. Both the upper end and lower end were still completely locked up as of Friday.

Maybe it was “too nice” a day as the bite was really off for me. I managed one (really nice) Cutthroat on Rickard’s Seal Bugger but that was it… 1 hit, 1 fish from 1:00-3:00p. Others I spoke to were struggling as well. Felt good to get back out there though… won’t be long now.

One noteworthy item… the reservoir has been at/near full pool for almost two years, but they appear to be re-filling the lower (Mountain Dell) reservoir so the water levels are very pretty low at Little Dell which should make for plenty of casting room for shore-bound anglers once things do open up.

[Riffle]

@Joe_Dizzy

Sorry for the delay here (had log-in issues)…

Fished Little Dell Reservoir on Friday afternoon, beautiful day, but unfortunately only the middle (~40%) of the lake is open. Both the upper end and lower end were still completely locked up as of Friday.

Maybe it was “too nice” a day as the bite was really off for me. I managed one (really nice) Cutthroat on Rickard’s Seal Bugger but that was it… 1 hit, 1 fish from 1:00-3:00p. Others I spoke to were struggling as well. Felt good to get back out there though… won’t be long now.

One noteworthy item… the reservoir has been at/near full pool for almost two years, but they appear to be re-filling the lower (Mountain Dell) reservoir so the water levels are very pretty low at Little Dell which should make for plenty of casting room for shore-bound anglers once things do open up.

Just curious if you tried any nymphing. Water is probably still very cold. Maybe not alot of midge action yet?

[kjox21]

@Joe_Dizzy

“Riffle” pid=‘1095367’ dateline=‘1583938912’ wrote:
Just curious if you tried any nymphing. Water is probably still very cold. Maybe not alot of midge action yet?

I tried drifting hare’s ear, scud, and chironomids under an indicator (usually quite reliable this time of year) but no action. Tried a balanced leech as well… no bumps.

In hindsight maybe a chironomid larva (bloodworm) would have got a look.

I’ve always struggled at Little Dell, its just such a deep lake with not much shoal area. The one good day I did have was on a hare’s ear near the inlet.

[_6x]

Thanks for the report!

[system]

@Joe_Dizzy

Sorry for the delay here (had log-in issues)…

Fished Little Dell Reservoir on Friday afternoon, beautiful day, but unfortunately only the middle (~40%) of the lake is open. Both the upper end and lower end were still completely locked up as of Friday.

Maybe it was “too nice” a day as the bite was really off for me. I managed one (really nice) Cutthroat on Rickard’s Seal Bugger but that was it… 1 hit, 1 fish from 1:00-3:00p. Others I spoke to were struggling as well. Felt good to get back out there though… won’t be long now.

One noteworthy item… the reservoir has been at/near full pool for almost two years, but they appear to be re-filling the lower (Mountain Dell) reservoir so the water levels are very pretty low at Little Dell which should make for plenty of casting room for shore-bound anglers once things do open up.

Good info. Thanks!

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