Looked at the list and it seems we have 253 unique addresses on the list. That is up 40 from just a month ago and 100 from when I first started working on the site about year ago. not sure about unique posts. Need to get stuff like the archive search function fixed before I cold look into that and am not sure how helpful it would be.
-sea On Sat, 3 Nov 2001 16:33:45 Kent Lufkin wrote: >Hi Andy, > >First things first. The small, unnamed eastern Washington lake did >not have any sort of discernable food activity last Friday, at least >that we could determine. My partners tried big dries (hoppers, >terrestrials), chironomids (under an indicator along the reeds to the >SE shore), and scuds. Nothing. Nada. > >What did work was anything olive (BH wooly buggers, leeches, bird's >nests, damsel & dragon nymphs, etc.), black (marabou and bunny >leeches) and an odd assortment of smaller (size 8 - 12) nymphs such >as prince, PTs and GRHEs. > >We brought 13 fish to hand in 6 hours of fishing, pretty slow at only >about one fish per 1-1/2 fisherman hours. All were cookie cutter >triploids from 16 to 22 inches except for a single 15 inch brown. >Judging from the conversations I overheard from others, fishing was >slow (by comparison with earlier in the year) across the board. > >Everyone seemed to agree that the fish were more adept at the head >shake than before. I LDR'd perhaps twice as many as I landed. Wonder >if smarter fish are a function of more angling pressure? > >Your comment about the Wenatchee club was interesting. Aside from the >two Oregon plated cars I mentioned, I didn't pay much attention to >where the others were from. In the past when there were just a few >other fishers on the water, everyone seemed to be from the Seattle >area except for an old timer named Earl who lives 'just down the >road' and has been fishing there forever. > >Not sure how many subscribers are on the list at present. Perhaps >Sean Ransom could cobble up a script to ping the database and provide >that information periodically. I'd also be interested in learning >about subscriber turnover. I know several old timers have left (Jere, >Les J. and others), but my sense is that there are far more newcomers >who've replaced them. I'd also be interested in learning about how >newcomers found out about the list. > >Aside from winter anadromous fishing, fishing should be slowing down >soon. Perhaps this might be a good time to gather photos and stories >about the year's fisning trips and make a push to update the web site? > >Kent Lufkin > > > >>Kent, >> >>Thanks for the report on the "small, unnamed lake in eastern wa." I had been >>planning on going back this fall, thinking that it might be a nice change of >>pace. It is good to know in advance that I should not be expecting any >>solitude from the occasion. I do have one question as it was going to be my >>principle reason for the late fall return - was there any water boatman >>activity while you were there? With all of that shallow water I thought the >>potential was there for a good boatman fall after the cold weather arrived. >> >>As a point of information on the way that I got there in the Spring - it was >>not through word of mouth, but through data mining a number of sources (I >>was feeling very proud of myself for having found it...) The day I arrived >>coincided with the day the word got out - as a Wenatchee fishing club >>apparently announced it at a Saturday evening meeting. That Sunday morning >>the parking lot was full and from a few conversations on the water and at >>the ramp the majority of the people were there from the Wenatchee area and >>because of that reference at the meeting. I did find an individual that had >>been fishing the lake for the previous several days/weekends and prior to >>that morning he had not seen more than 3 other anglers on the water. The >>lesson, it does not take much word of mouth for a spot to become discovered. >>The question - does that mean that it should not have been discovered and >>that the state funded rotenone and restocking program should have benefited >>only a few instead of many? >> >>To follow-up the discussion that Patrick started: what is the >>"responsibility" of the participants on this list to contribute >>reports/information to the list-serve, instead of merely lurking and soaking >>up the knowledge of others? Even veiled references, such as Kent's, can be >>very useful to other members, but any such reference also bares the risk of >>"unleashing the unwashed masses." It is a fine line to walk. To the lurkers: >>I hope that you realize that you too need to step up to the plate >>occasionally, or eventually the list will degrade down to the point where no >>"useful" information is ever swapped for fear that there will be no >>reciprocation. To the newbies: there are occasionally questions on the list >>that would be best answered by searching the archives first. And to all: >>tight lines! >> >>Andy >> >>PS Kent out of curiosity, how many subscribers does the list currently have >>and is there an easy way to compare that number with the number of unique >>posters during a given period? >> >> >>From: "Kent Lufkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Sent: Friday, November 02, 2001 10:39 AM >>Subject: Re: where have all the reports gone? >> >> >> > Richard, >> > >> > Your example is dead-on. Same thing happened to me this year. Heard >> > about a small, unnamed lake in eastern Washington that had received a >> > dose of rotenone late last year followed by plants of browns and >> > triploids in the spring. The guys who told me about it swore me to >> > secrecy, so I didn't post anything for that reason, although I did >> > tell a couple of my regular fishing buddies. >> > >> > The first couple times I went there, the fishing was even better than >> > I could have imagined. The muscular triploids regularly pulled me >> > into my backing and put a week-long grin on my face. But the best >> > part was that at most there were only 2 or 3 other guys there. >> > >> > Well I went back last Friday to find the small parking area filled >> > with cars, trucks and RVs, including 2 from Oregon, and over 20 >> > flyfishers on the water. Looked like opening weekend at Lake Lenice >> > except the little lake is only about a third that size. I ducked >> > backcasts all day long and even watched two guys get their lines >> > tangled up, just like combat fishing at Hoodsport or the Kenai. >> > >> > Looks like I wasn't the only person those guys had told. >> > >> > Kent Lufkin >> > >> > >> > >By example, a friend of mine and I took a prominent List person to a >> > >prime fishing spot last year, shared with him the techniques >> > >required for that spot, species, and time of year, swore him to >> > >secrecy, and guess what? I know of several List members, with whom >> > >he regularly fishes, who now 'just happen' to know the same spot and >> > >technique. This spot can only accommodate 2, maybe 3 persons at one >> > >time. It's a bummer to go to 'your' fishing spot to find it filled >> > >with folks who are friends of someone else with whom you 'shared' >> > >the spot. >> > > >> > >And, as far as posting that type of information on the List, I think >> > >it's the rule, rather the exception, that there tends to be a herd >> > >effect to certain fishing spots after someone posts a favorable >> > >fishing report. I'm not saying it's bad, it's just the way it is. >> > >> > > > Get 250 color business cards for FREE! http://businesscards.lycos.com/vp/fastpath/
