My two cents on Sunfish and Hoppers...
(also, Les had asked about the streamer that I was using - if interested see
http://www.northshoretu.org/white_streamer.jpg )
My opinion on the hoppers was that the fish were taking them as dragonfly
emerger cripples. Not having any hoppers with me (or floating dragonfly
emerger cripples...) I did not get to participate in the dry fly action
(damsel dries were not the ticket). I did notice that the substantial wind
and wave action pushed a decent number of dragonfly shucks and at least one
dead dragonfly nymph out of the reed line and on to the surface film of the
lake, so maybe the fish were seeing enough of this floating out of the weeds
to readily accept the large hopper pattern - or maybe it was just a good day
to be fishing any large attractor, wet or dry. Any thoughts on this from
anyone? In either case, I guess I need to start throwing some big dries in
the normal lake arsenal.
As for the sunfish, I wonder why WA DFW does not play around more with
various rainbow strains, like BC is doing, instead of jumping straight to
the idea of Browns or Tiger Muskies. I would be happy to participate in any
trips up to BC to borrow some Blackwater strain rainbows for DFW to use...
Alternatively, I remember hearing from a UW fisheries grad student a while
back that the Donaldson strain (steelhead/kamloops cross?) fish were
extremely aggressive. Maybe this applied only to lures and not potential
bait fish meals.
Tight Lines (and keep those Island Park Reports coming - only 15 more days
tell my vacation starts!),
Andy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Fellow crusaders" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 7:29 AM
Subject: sunfish at Lenice
> A couple of weeks ago while fishing the west end of Lenice I pulled up
next
> to a small island and next to me were two 6" sunfish or perch. Not quite
> sure what kind of fish they were but they were not a trout. Hopefully the
> browns will keep there numbers to a minimum or perhaps WDFW could
introduce
> some tiger muskies like they did in Green lake(probably not). Also fished
it
> again on Saturday amongst the howling winds with fellow list member Andy
> Towell, we managed a few fish but the surprise of the day came when the
fish
> started taking size 4 giant hoppers on the surface.No hoppers even
hatching
> yet though.
> Enough of trout, time to start thinking about the Steelies and Kings. If
> Justin Teagarden is still lurking on the list I would love to get a Kalama
> report.
>
> I'm not an animal, I just like peanuts. The Elephant man.
>
> Patrick
>
