Fished lake Lenice with my brother on Wednesday. I only landed two and
he landed four. Two of the fish were nice browns. Got em' on buggers,
bunny leeches, and 'mids. However, Preston Singletary was there, and he
was hooking fish on a callabaetis emerger pattern during a pretty steady
mayfly hatch. The speckled winged duns were coming off from about 11 am
until we left at 3:30 pm. I tried a parachute Adams and a Gulper
Special, but no dice. The emerger is what they wanted and Preston's fly
was the ticket. He gave me two of the flies during the peak of the
hatch (and my frustration); that's the sign of a true sportsman.
It was my first time to fish the lake and I was impressed by the
strong, sturdy, hard fighting rainbows that live there. They ran,
jumped, and raised hell just like rainbows are supposed to do. I
haven't seen that for a while. I'll be going back, but this time I'll
be armed with a dozen of the emerger patterns Preston showed me.
I also fished the Ford, and 5 of the rainbows went better than 20
inches. They all ate a #14 dirty olive scud. Also messed around a
little at Lenore and took 3 bright Lahottans on #12 black mids' fished
about 6 feet under an indicator. That's all fellows! Jeff Hale
