Hi all. I'm new to the group. I've seen your posts a lot in my newsgroup searches on various fishing spots and have finally joined. I visited Lenice and Rocky Ford over the weekend and had good fishing on Saturday. Lenice: 4:30 - 5:30 a.m. - 1 brown and 1 bow - #4 black rabbit strip leech 7:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - huge callibaetis hatch ensued - mostly #18, a few larger, a few smaller fish were extremely selective with so many naturals available but could be taken on calli emergers and spinners during the (heavy) spinnerfall 11:30 - 4:00 - the callibaetis hatch happened in other locations on the lake but never as heavy as the first hatch at the NE corner of the lake - spinnerfall persisted for quite some time Other good patterns throughout the day - 18 brassie, 18 pheasant tail Rocky Ford: fished for about 1/2 hr before dusk with a #16 olive scud - got a couple hogs. A nice PMD emergence happened at dusk - was a nice little hatch. Sunday spent some time with my 2 wt. on secret spring creek water in Eastern WA and found that despite low water this year the cold spring creeks still have extremely healthy fish - the holding areas have changed a lot though. Those rainbows are little footballs - caught an 8-incher that would make you laugh it was so fat, looked like a daphnia-feeder - 16" fish act like miniature hogs. Trico mating swarms in the morning were thick in places and had even the largest fish lined up on the seams sipping spinners. If fishing creeks in the desert make sure you bring a few #6 or #8 dave's hoppers - even the big ones are just smackin' 'em from around 10 a.m. through the afternoon. Also noted a single October Caddis and a very light PMD emergence in the afternoon - orange stimulator around #12 was effective as were #18 PMD cripples and duns, #16 brown elkhair caddis and the usual bead nymphs as droppers. tight lines -Jim Speaker
