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Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: fishman1 on July 11, 2009, 09:42:01 AM

Title: Lightning Lake
Post by: fishman1 on July 11, 2009, 09:42:01 AM

Headed to Manning Park next week any suggestions on what flies to use on Lightning Lake.

Thanks very much

Title: Re: Lightning Lake
Post by: Brian on July 12, 2009, 04:43:41 PM

My 3-year old son and I casted small yellow (brass?) spinners from a canoe a month ago.  Landed 4 small trout, 5 got away.

Title: Re: Lightning Lake
Post by: lude98r on July 12, 2009, 05:20:26 PM

depends on the weather, leech or chrominid

Title: Re: Lightning Lake
Post by: bcguy on July 13, 2009, 09:10:01 AM

You might run into the tail end of a Damsel Fly hatch, try one of those if your fly fishing,or Mayflies.
I've aalso had success with small yellow spinners (Panther Martin), and Mepps Black Fury

Title: Re: Lightning Lake
Post by: Coho Cody on July 13, 2009, 06:15:55 PM

definately a better fly lake then hardware. fish dries like mayflies and tom thumbs at night, use chromie chronis in the late morning-afternoon ;)

Title: Re: Lightning Lake
Post by: Radman on July 13, 2009, 09:20:31 PM

I was just there yesterday, we just cast small dries anywhere around log areas near shore and we caught trout all day long.  The only problem is there all very small trout, the largest we caught was maybe 11 inches.

Title: Re: Lightning Lake
Post by: bcguy on July 14, 2009, 02:36:20 PM

Yeah if tyou nail one bigger than 12" its a monster...

Title: Re: Lightning Lake
Post by: fishman1 on July 16, 2009, 03:14:58 PM

Thanks for the info guys. Just got back today.  The ticket was any small dry adult mayfly imitation.  My favorite was a Royal Wolfe.  The mayfly were hatching like crazy.  The fly wasn't on the water any more than 30 seconds before a trout would take a swipe at it.  Biggest caught was about 8 ".  My 6 year old daughter had a blast.