Oregon DFW is moving ahead with their "cranebow" program. They just spawned
the first batch of cranebow brood stock. All part of a plan to replace
current hatchery stocks and plant central Oregon waters. The fish are
larger and more robust (and maybe a little more aggressive?). Who knows,
maybe they'll send some our way.
Don
(Spokane)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Towell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: sunfish at Lenice
> 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
> >
>
>
