Fishing was excellent on Tunkwa yesterday!! The edges of the drop off/weed line in front of our cabins, in 14-15 feet of water produced well, fish were actively feeding on #12 olive green patterns, or ASB/red rib emerging from the … Continue reading
Warm days, and cool nights, ‘fall’ is in the air!! This past week has seen some good action while chironomid fishing. Hatches of size 12’s in mainly green or brown colours. Today early morning anglers had good results until a … Continue reading
Fishing has been spotty with worms under a float working in shallower water close to the weed beds, Fishers trolling wedding bands and spinners or hot shots was slow but not many out there fishing these methods. Earlier in the … Continue reading
The past week saw some really good chironomid fishing, until the low pressure system from the south moved in over the weekend(right in time for the FlyBC’ers who were arriving for there annual ‘Tunkwa Bomber Run’ get-together). This change in … Continue reading
I was out Sunday evening until almost dark and fish were feeding heavily on bomber emergers, brown in color in the surface film , picked off a few fish on chironomid emerger patterns casting to riseforms on the dry, total … Continue reading
Chironomid fishing has been very good to excellent for most anglers, The ‘bombers'(giant chironomids) started to come off later last Tuesday afternoon. The trout have set up, and are feeding over the ‘deeper’ parts of Tunkwa Lake, 17-19′. Fishing size … Continue reading
Summer has finally arrived after a very wet and cooler pattern since mid June. Trollers have been catching fish in spinners and gang trolls with wedding band with a small piece of worm trailing. Hot shots and Kwick fish in … Continue reading
Finally some nicer weather in the Tunkwa area this past week. Fishing for the most part has been slower. Best action is still occurring in the evenings until dark. Chironomids are still being fished high in the water column(3-6.5′) and … Continue reading
Weather patterns the past week have been very unstable with copious amounts of rain, raising lake levels a few inches in what should be sunny and warm weather at this time of year. Trollers have been catching fish on various … Continue reading
Lots of unstable weather since the last report, but the Canada Day lon weeeknd, saw a big improvement. All the rains the past while has really raised the water levels in Tunkwa, and brought the water tmeprature down, all good … Continue reading
Last week chironomids were starting to come off in a few spots and fish would come through in schools which would last for a short period then come through again to feed. A few spots have had longer periods of … Continue reading
Fishing has really been up and down, since the last report. Like always, some guests have been doing extremely well, while other struggling. For the most most part, trolling or stripping flies has been the ticket to get into the … Continue reading