Say, do you think that they take that little hare's ear for an immature damsel nyph? Scud?
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Lufkin Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Lake Lenice report[Scanned] I saw this morning on KOMO-TV that they were predicting a 50% chance of rain for Saturday and Sunday. I like yours better. K >Accuweather says Hi 56-58 and lows 38 or so. Which forecast do you look at? > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Lufkin >Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 2:25 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: Lake Lenice report[Scanned] > > >Looks like weather reports for the weekend are much different than >for yesterday and today. If it stays cold you may well get snow - and >of course, wind :-D > >K > >>Great report, Kent. I'll be freezing my butt off over there on Saturday and >>Sunday. >> >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kent Lufkin >>Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 9:50 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Lake Lenice report[Scanned] >> >> >>Les Korcala and I drove over to fish Lake Lenice yesterday, arriving >>at about 7:45am under a cloudless sky with the sun just about to rise >>over the Saddle Mountains. It was cold, perhaps freezing or just >>below, but without even a puff of wind. Although a north wind gusted >>periodically from about 11am to 3pm, the water was otherwise calm >>nearly the whole day. >> >>Putting in, I found that my last-minute decision the night before to >>bring a 6wt bamboo rod instead of a 4wt graphite came at a price: I'd >>forgotten to bring the matching spool with the WF6 line and so had to >>muscle a puny WF4 the whole day. Thanks to the near-windless >>conditions though, it could have been a whole lot harder than it was. >> >>We decided to fish the east end of the lake and had the place to >>ourselves until about 10am when two others arrived and went to the >>opposite side of the lake. The air temperature ended up in the >>mid-50s and the water was an even 54�. The water was unusually clear, >>allowing a view of the bottom nearly everywhere. There were no signs >>of any hatch activity. I only saw a couple of wayward dragonflies, a >>few small mayfly and chironomid adults, a bee or two, and a brief >>flurry of midges just before sundown. >> >>By the time we pulled out under the Milky Way, Les had landed 8 fish >>and I'd released 15, both of us with another 3 or 4 LDR'd. Nearly all >>were RBs from 16 to about 19 inches. Their appearance ranged from >>pure silver with a few speckles to deeply colored with heavily >>spotted reddish bronze flanks. Some dogged it after being hooked, >>coming almost peacefully to hand while others tailwalked and fought > >every inch of the way. One brute that I hooked about noon at the > >inlet took off like a torpedo making my Bougle scream in a vain > >protest, pulling out half my line before finally shaking the hook. >> >>Just after sundown there was a brief period when nearly every cast >>produced a strike or a fish. We had a couple of doubles including one >>at about 5:30pm when we released a pair of 17-18 inch browns. >> >>I fished a size 12 no-bead gold-ribbed hare's ear off a floating line >>and 12 foot 4X leader the entire day, changing only a couple times >>when a fish had ingested one too deeply to safely remove. Les tried a >>couple dozen different patterns but the GRHE ended up producing best >>for him as well. >> >>I'm still grinning after a nearly perfect day on the water. >> >>K
