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----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:35 PM Subject: Re: RE: Lenice - Nunnally Calibaetis Variations > Leland they were definitly callibaetis but they looked a lot more like a baetis. Definitly strange cause 2 weeks earlier on Lenice we were seeing callibaetis in big size 12s that had the normal coloration you would expect. > > -sean > > You Wrote: > ---------- > > In my experience, last year, the callibaetis ran about a #16 throughout > Spring, and the later-season bugs were smaller as the season progressed, > down as small as a #18. The fish seemed picky last year and I concluded > "size does matter". > > -Jim > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of rderedfield > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Lenice - Nunnally Calibaetis Variations > > > I noticed, about 3 weeks ago, that it appeared there were a couple of > different callibaetis popping off, and one of them was just as Wes > described. However, I think of them even a little smaller than the "scant > #14", and believe they were more like a #16. > > Richard > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Leland Miyawaki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 2:59 PM > Subject: Re: Lenice - Nunnally Calibaetis Variations > > > > Wes, > > > > It's a bit difficult identifying your bugs without a looksee. I don't > > know that there are callibaetis that are not gray, gray/brown, or > > dark gray. I won't question that you know the difference between a > > mayfly and a midge but I have seen large midges in these lakes that > > have been green to bright yellow/green at about a size 14, and you > > did pick up fish on a wet green willie. > > > > Leland. > > > > > > > > > > > >On Mon, 6 May 2002, Wes.Neuenschwander (@Home) wrote: > > > > > >> Fished Bobby last Saturday with Sean and a couple of other friends. > Cloudy > > >> to partly cloudy skies with a stiff, gusty westerly wind most of the > day. > > >> Very sparse activity - to either dries or emergers or slow retrieved > > >> chironomids - from 9:00 to about noon when a few medium sized > egg-laying > > >> chironomids skittering across the protected flats began producing the > > >> occasional desultory rise from otherwise uninterested trout. > > >> > > >> About 1:00 I decided to push on up to Nunnally, checking out the > shallow > > >> channel connecting the two lakes along the way. Very little activity > in the > > >> channel, either cruising or feeding, but as I rounded the bend to > Nunnally I > > >> could see large numbers of sparrows feeding intensively along the east > end > > >> of the lake. Foam lines and waves obscured the insect activity, but > the > > >> solo float tuber fishing the area said chironomids had been hatching, > with > > >> the occasional rising trout here and there. I trolled across the east > end > > >> to the tules along the south side, picking up a couple of small browns > on a > > >> size 12 "Green Willie" fished on my Type II uniform sink. When I > neared the > > >> south side I could see fish rising along the foam lines and wind-wave > > >> creases so I switched to a #14 parachute pheasant tail and cast to the > > >> nearest rise, a good fish barely 15' away. The fly was taken in a > classic > > >> head to tail rise almost immediately and a few minutes later I landed > > >> another small brown, this one about 17-18" long. A couple more casts > and a > > >> couple more browns, but the next cast was taken viciously by a very > large > > >> rainbow that immediately took me into my backing, jumping 2 or 3 times > along > > >> the way. Fifteen minutes and about a third of a good cigar later, I > landed > > >> a very full-bodied 24" rainbow that would barely fit in my net. A > couple of > > >> casts later and I hooked a very similar fish, similarly energetic; > this fish > > >> breaking me off after a 200' run. I continued to catch fish running > 18-22" > > >> regularly until about 4:00 when the rising slowed and I had to get > back to > > >> the rest of the group still at Bobby. > > >> > > >> When I crossed back to the relatively protected waters near the > connecting > > >> channel, I was able to collect a couple of small Calibaetis duns that > were > > >> floating on the surface. These adults were quite small (a scant size > 14) > > >> and extremely pale, with a very light lime green - almost white - > underside > > >> and a light lime green (close to a Pantone 344) top. The wings were > also > > >> very lightly colored with very small dark brown spots, giving them > almost a > > >> clear appearance. At a glance, one would have taken them for PMD's > rather > > >> than the larger, more darkly and densely colored Calibaetis typically > found > > >> in eastern Washington lakes. Indeed these pale green Calibaetis were > at > > >> least a full size smaller than the deep mahogany colored duns we had > seen > > >> just a couple of weeks before on Lenice - just a mile or two away. > > >> > > >> Does anyone have any idea what causes this variation in size and color > among > > >> the Calibaetis of Nunnally and Lenice? Are these actually different > > >> species, hatching more or less at the same time on closely associated > waters > > >> or is the variation due to environmental or seasonal factors? The > small > > >> pheasant tail parachutes worked fairly well, but I did get a number of > > >> conspicuous refusals, so next time I would probably fish something > with a > > >> light dubbed body, and probably in a size 16. > > >> > > >> It's interesting to find yourself at the end of a day of fast and > furious > > > > fishing, for some particularly large and energetic trout, thinking > more > > >> about the bugs you saw than the fish you caught, but this has me > perplexed. > > >> Was this just an anomaly or does this kind of variation in size and > color > > >> occur commonly on other lakes and other times? I try to excuse my > > >> fickleness by thinking this might be useful information, and perhaps > it is. > > >> > > >> -Wes > > >> > > >> Wes Neuenschwander > > >> Seattle, WA USA > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________________ > Processed by the CommuniTech.Net Web Mail Program >
