Re: [VFB] Pere Marquette report

[Eric the Flytyer]

Hey all-

Went on the PM last night (Baldwin, MI).  By the claybanks.  LOTS of water, about a foot higher than normal, and still stained.  Too much rain has put the screws on the fishing here.  Saw some sulfurs, some tan caddis, but it was a tough go.  Have heard rumors of some brown drakes, but I didn't see any (stayed until 930P).

 

Caught a couple little rainbows on some #14 soft hackles with brown roots type dubbing.  Then I got serious about looking for some big browns.  Had one great hit that I missed using a #6 black wooly bugger w/ gold bead head.  I was too busy watching a heron fishing 80 yards or so downstream, and I was at the end of my swing.  About 15 seconds after it stopped...Bang!  and I missed 'em.  Oh well, thats life!

 

Any other Michigan fishing reports out there??

 

Eric

Wes Wada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Just back from a trip Wed. evening-Sat. afternoon at Central Oregon's
Hosmer Lake. To put it briefly, the weather was a real challenge!

It rained steadily with few breaks between Wednesday night and all day
and night Thursday. Talk about a soggy camping experience. I was in
our camper van, a friend was tent camping and was buried under blue
tarps that managed to keep his stuff dry. Other campers weren't so
fortunate. One poor soul, Mike from Boise, the walking sponge, had
been there for over a week and had experienced one rainless day. That
Mike was a gamer, however, as he put in more than his fair share of
time, in a float tube in icy water, no less.

Those braving the rain, wind and cold managed some decent fishing. I
managed a couple of 14"-16" brook trout as my best fish, and brought to
net a couple dozen Atlantic salmon and brook trout overall. I was
content with conversation by the campfire while the diehards were out
fishing, so didn't put in the usual marathon fishing hours. Going
again this week, and will be meeting Jim Burbank and his family there
at the end of the month, so many more opportunities are coming.

Spring has been wet and cold here in the Cascade Mountains, and the
hatches are all delayed. A few days of hot, dry weather in a row, and
the bugs should really explode (which unfortunately includes mosquitos).

The big caddisflies are what bring the big brookies to the surface, and
that's the hatch I look forward to every year. The morning hatch is
the Grey Wing Sedge, and the evening hatch is the smaller bodied
Traveling Sedge (the 'Motorboat' Caddis). As caddises go, these are
big bugs (1 to 1-1/4" long including the wings), and it takes something
like that to bring the normally big cautious brook trout to the
surface. There's a 19" brook trout there that hopefully has my name on
it...

Wes Wada
Bend, Oregon

Here's some photos of Hosmer to give a sense of place:
from the trip: panorama of the marsh channel area between the north and
south lakes of Hosmer. The dark arrow-shaped patch to the left of the
central pine trees is a portion of the 1-mile long channel.


from another web site: south lake of Hosmer with Mt. Bachelor in the
background
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