Just what is a "dragonfly emerger cripple" or "floating dragonfly emerger
cripple"? I had someone last week at Lenice tell me he was catching fish on
a 'damsel fly emerger'. I thought both of these critters do their thing on
shore, not in the water. I guess I've missed something in that stage in the
life-cycle of a dragonfly or damsel fly . . . ? Please explain.
Thanks,
Richard
-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Towell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 7:16 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
>>
>
