I fished Peterhope Lake by Merritt last weekend and had good luck with Tom Thumbs as a searching/attractor pattern. The fish were keying on migrating damsels and while that was the primary food, they were short-striking and slapping at damsel imitations. It wasn't until I put on a Tom Thumb that they really started taking the fly. I also got to fish a small mayfly hatch that for a brief period of about 15 minutes was "a fish a cast". They liked my chopaka may. The travelling sedges hadn't really started yet. Some of the bigger sedges were up, but only one or two. I did reasonably good the last evening there on a size 12 green bodied elk hair caddis. Bill Warner
