Upper Otay Bluegills 7/2

Though I'd give the UO bass another try this morning. Got to the lot around 6:45 and was surprised to see about 8 other vehicles.

I got in the water and kicked to the eastern shore, mainly because the bulk of tubers were fishing the west side. There were boils everywhere from tight to cover to out in the middle of the lake. Fished a crease fly first, just casting around, then up tight to the structure, and twitching and popping it out. Nothing. I tried buggers, a minnow I got at Peter's shop, even a frog for a while, but even with boils all around, I wasn't able to entice any bass.

Eventually, I worked back into that arm in the northeast, where there were a lot of bluegill boiling. I switched flies to a bead-head hare's ear and got off the skunk in about 3 casts. A nice little gillie hit the nymph on the drop.


I kicked slowly out of the arm (I've heard guys call it Canyon Arm), casting to structure on either side, bit no more gillies up there.


I worked all the way down the west shore, but didn't get anymore hits until I was entering the little cove in the southwest corner. A gillie took another hare's ear pretty near the bottom (I'd lost a collection of flies working my way down the west side).


I kicked into the little cove and tied on a small bluegill popper - one of the gear guys told me the bass lit up a frog in there in the morning. I tossed it into a "pothole" in the weeds and it got hit. But not enough to stick, so twitched it and it got hit again. But no. So I tied on an even smaller popper, and tossed it in there. Same thing; hit, no stick. So I looked in my fly box and found a dry fly, a humpy I think. I tossed it in there and stuck, 2 1/2 inches of bluegill fury.


I called work to see if I could take the day off, but got denied, so I decided I'd better work my way back to the lot.

On the way out of the cove, I tossed to structure with another hare's ear, and got a hit on the drop. This one put up a tussle, and when I got him to the tube he was pretty decent. Likely one of the biggest I've caught there.


I tossed half-heartedly on the way to lot, but time was running short. Ever noticed all the bass fry by the launch area at the main lot? Tons of 'em.