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Matthew Supinski's Gray Drake/Selectivity/Nexus Blog
After chasing wild #groundzero Browns on local ice cold Michigan spring creeks last week during the heat waves with my clients and avoiding the bigger rivers and tailwaters , the cooler nights and rainfall has lowered the temps of tailwaters to cooler levels that you could get out at 5:30 am and fish at the crack of dawn for a half day and quit by 10 before waters warm up. I was amazed to see how fat and healthy our Eagle Lake California rainbows Michigan has adopted as their own have held up so far thru the worst heat wave and drought Michigan has seen. Thank you Charlie Atkinson for staying on top of Consumers Power and exposing their shifty doings on WOOD TV as far as their flow regime inconsistency and temperature / oxygen bubbler maintenance.
Please carry a very functioning digital thermometer and take temps at all sides of the tailwaters. Yesterday I found a significant cooler water difference between which side of the river I was on , and dissolved oxygen levels just by moving 20 feet- and different from USGS Gages that are set up in the wrong place- a series of new temperature monitoring is coming at the end of July by trout unlimited to our tailwaters - bravo!!!.
Now that Consumers are experimenting with the mixing bottom and top spill blubber flows, I think they are finding their groove and what is working- the trout seem to love it!. I pumped a throat and the rainbows were filled with caddis and midge larvae and were fat and happy . If you fish , do it very early and fight fish fast and keep them in the water, or holding up near it for 2 seconds, and only using Ketchum release to slide down to your barbless hook for fast release .
Tricos, midges, ants, soft hackles and caddis are getting ready to start- the rocks are covered with caddis larvae, and the best trout fishing on the MO is August and September to come!!!!
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