Bill, were you fishing at Dry Falls or one of your haunts in B.C.?
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From: Warner, Paul W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 2:30 PM
Subject: RE: Dry Falls
> Sean,
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> I think Phil Rowley's pattern of the "chromie" is a good generic pattern.
It's got a silver body with a red flashabou rib... but you have to subscribe
to the "shiny body chironimid" theory before you'll believe in that fly.
>
> I've used them during red, black and green chronie periods.
>
> And... if there's several sizes of chronies hatching then.. size isn't all
that important.. just match one of them.
>
> This weekend my "shiny ones" didn't work all that well for me. I had my
best luck on a #14 green superfloss bodied one. Caught one that went 25
inches.
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> Les, I had two days of fishing earlier in April where I racked up some
big numbers for fish caught and lost next to the boat. Would those losses
be "short line release". Anyways I read your comment on the "one fish every
9.6 minutes" and it made me wonder how long I was out on the lake. I
thought we did about 10 hours or so each day and had fish hit just about
every cast.
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> Your comment did make me think.
>
> Bill Warner
>
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> > From: Sean Ransom[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 11:35 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 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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