Sean, wrap some small black v-rib on a size 14 Tiemco 2487bl hook with a
white bead at the top of the fly. Only four components; Hook, V-rib, white
bead,and black Kevlar thread. I had easily a fifty fish day at Lenore with
this one in March. Also productive at Lenice and Chopaka.Very Basic.
Something else you may want to try is fish the chironomid with in a foot of
the bottom. Good luck
Patrick
----- Original Message -----
From: Sean Ransom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 11:35 AM
Subject: Dry Falls
> Let me start by saying this was my first trip to eastern Washington and
> sorry if the report is long winded.
>
> Dry Falls left me with more questions than answers but did give me just
> enough to wish I could go back as soon as possible. Two friends and I
> headed out Friday afternoon around 4pm so we could get in early and set
> up camp while there was still some light. We rolled in about 8:30pm and
> proceeded to get so drunk as to where I needed help getting back to the
> tent. Still I managed to get up about 5:30am and kick everyone else out
> of bed and we headed down to the lake.
>
> There we quite a few people in the lake on Saturday but really it was
> not that bad. Also the wind was almost non-existent. We put on the water
> around 7 and were greeted by many risers and huge fish rolling on the
> surface. I think I saw one dragonfly buzzing around and a lot of
> chronomid shucks on the surface. So I immediately went for the chronomid
> patterns. Now I have read a lot about fishing chronomids but never
> actually had done it. Needless to say I watched a chronomid god anchored
> next to me catch about 7 nice trout in under an hour while I went
> fishless. Now I was frustrated as all hell and asked the guy what he was
> using and he said a light green chrono. I didn't have any of that color
> and didn't feel like going back in to tie any so I decided to tie on a
> cream damsel and decided to troll to the other side of the lake and fish
> the tullies. About half way there I hooked into a fat 17 inch fish which
> made me feel a while lot better. That was by far the largest trout I
> have been lucky enough to catch. Then that was it no more fish and we
> decided to break for lunch and come back that evening.
>
> Later that evening I tied on a green and black bugger to troll along
> while I headed to the back bay. About 5 minutes later I felt a light tug
> and fish on. From the way the fight started I thought it was a rather
> small fish but after a 10 minute fight I was holding a 20+ inch fish in
> my hand. A very nice fish and of course I had to go find my friends and
> brag about it.
>
> I hooked up with my friends in the back bay and they were just as
> frustrated as I was with al the fish the chrono guys and gals were
> catching. So we decided to put on a big dry with a black chrono tied on
> as a dropper. We basically just worked the tullies and had some
> tremendous takes. So tremendous in fact that we never had one on for
> that long cause most of the time they were snapping the tippet. Nothing
> to hand and around 9:30 we went back to camp and I resolved to spend the
> next morning seriously fishing chronos.
>
> Arrived around 7 and once again there were a lot of fish working , no
> wind, and only about 5 others on the lake. I tied on a black chrono
> about 4 feet from my indicator and anchored down about 20 feet out from
> the tullies in the back bay. After about 15 minutes I was greeted with a
> healthy take but lost the fish about a good 5 minute battle. Using the
> same method I missed about 3 more fish and we decide to take off cause
> my partners had not caught anything on the trip and couldn't take it any
> longer.
>
> So all in all it was a good time and very educational. We saw no
> evidence of damsels or callibaetis in good number either day. Chronos
> are the ticket and if you excel at that type of fishing you could
> basically catch fish all day. Black chronos seemed to be working for
> folks all day and light green was working particularly well before noon.
> With the weather being in the 80s both days we were there I would
> imagine the bigger damsels and mayflies will be coming off in large
> numbers soon. Of course I wish I would have caught more fish but the
> ones I did catch were memorable.
>
> Now a question for you all. Generic chrono pattern, is there such a
> thing? I have seen some guys chrono boxes and it looks like they contain
> 40 or more different patterns. I am looking for a basic pattern I can
> tie in an array of colors and sizes and have it work a good percentage
> of the time. Is there such a thing?
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> -sean
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