Schooling Fish

[Stan Wright]

The lake is clearing up nicely since the big floods in December. Now that the water temperature is 74 degrees, the peacock bass are starting to school up and chase the shad again. I'll be glad when the water temperature reaches 80 degrees so peacock bass will start spawning.... April????

A Schooling Size Peacock Bass


Most of the fish are 1 1/2 to 2 pound size. There are lots of them and when you scale down your tackle to a 4wt or 5wt fly rod.... it's a good fight. And really exciting when one of the 3 pounders hits.

The threadfin shad they are feeding on are very small, just an inch or so. We scaled down our flys to take advantage of the feeding frenzy. The gold fly is just a #10 AH hook with gold Flashabou... a simple streamer.
The purple looking one is a cone head wooly bugger without the hackle. Keep it simple, make it fun.

Flys....


Another Hawaii Peacock Bass on a Fly

[roadwarriorsvt]

Are they still around Boy Scout Is. or on the move?

[Stan Wright]

Tuesday we caught them from the County Yard all the way down to the dam and on up the North Fork. They was scattered schooling all over the place.