Still Waters

 Fishing on most irrigation reservoirs to the southeast is slowing as waters are warming and are being drawn down for irrigation.  So fish are heading for deeper water.  With damsel fly activity, they will return to shallows to feed on their life cycle forms. Aquatic vegetation will hosts these and other lifeforms that fish will forage on. Late and early during sunlit, hot days provides the best fishing.

Midge populations on these are diminishing, but will expand again during autumn months. Roads to all these reservoirs are open. The road to Fish Creek Pond (Teardrop Lake), which hosts a few large hold-over rainbows, is open but rough in places.  Mackay Reservoir is in fishing condition. Try leech patterns in the shallows and at the edge of discolored water such as that coming in at upper end channels.  Look out for thundershowers and downdraft winds that can make for dangerous water.