The next day I brought Mike to Little Lava Lake and we started out in a cold fog. This is a good time to remind angling friends to be careful driving to the lakes in the morning. I wasn’t surprised to see icy roads, but was shocked when an F150 with a pontoon boat in the bed passed me in those conditions. Maybe they didn’t recognizer the ice from Mt Bachelor to Devils Lake, but that rain the day before and the overnight clearing and heavy frost made that mostly black ice. Slow the F**K down in the morning and recognize the conditions. Anyway, sliding off the road and wrecking your truck and boat, and probably yourself is just going to screw up a lot of fishing and now that this rant is over let’t talk about how good the fishing was at Little Lava once the sun poked out. Just like fishing, Luck runs its course. 
As for the fishing, once we safely arrived driving slow it was really good. Different than the last time I was there which was just over 3 weeks ago when we were still in full summer mode. How was it different? We did not find many fish along the shoreline looking for terrestrials. What we did find was out in 5 to 10 feet of water, with a mix of marl and weed beds were a plethora of hungry trout. 
Indicator fishing a Silver Lighting Bug and 4 different Callibaetis Nymphs was really really good. 
I throat pumped a couple of fish, and early in the day they were only eating a tiny (probably size 24) Olive chironomid pupa, but later it was evident that callibaetis nymphs were moving more prior to the hatch. Just after lunch that callibaetis mayfly hatch was excellent, but we never found an emerger or dun the fish would eat for us, even though they were most certainly eating in the film or even on the surface. So we adapted to that and set up the Fulling Mill Bung and two 2.3 mm bead callibaetis jigs, one at 2 feet under the indicator and the other at 4 feet down. The fish may have slighted us, okay, outsmarted us at the surface, but we kicked their tails on that bung rig for another 45 minutes or so.