BTW, the last time I was at Lenice six weeks or so ago, the only pattern that worked for me was a scud while my GRHE attracted nothing but scorn.
But that's why they call it fishing . . . :-D
K
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
andAccuweather 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 SaturdaySunday.
-----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>>when a fish had ingested one too deeply to safely remove. Les tried aand 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 timescouple 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
