Quick question about lenore. I drove past it on the way to Dry Falls and not one
person was fishing it. My fishing partners said it was due to some algae bloom that
wrecked the lake a few years back. The lake did look pretty scummy but it wasnt that
bad.
Anyway I have always heard good things about the lake and was surprised to not see
anyone fishing it...
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On Mon, 14 May 2001 12:12:01
Patrick Petersen wrote:
>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
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>
>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.
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>> 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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