Oh I guess it was actually closer to every five minutes Les, or maybe less.
Either way it was pretty much non stop from about seven to seven.
----- Original Message -----
From: Les Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: Dry Falls
> If you fished for eight solid hours without time off for changing tippet,
> flies, eating a sandwich or going ashore for bladder relief while at Lake
> Lenore you would have caught a trout every 9.6 minutes. Did you actually
do
> the math on those numbers?
>
> Les J.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Patrick Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 1:12 PM
> Subject: Re: Dry Falls
>
>
> > 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?
> > >
> > >
> > > -sean
> > >
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