02-08-2007, 04:42 PM
[laugh] strange to see a #12 referred to as a "big ol' thing". Those were about all I fished with in eastern Washington's lakes.
Thanks so much for the benefit of your experience. I read (or used to) all that was written on Fish Biology. I also went to all the Biologists talks all I opportunity to.
Even the Biologists are perplexed at the feeding habits and times of the wild fish.
The hatchery fish even change after a season in the wild.
They become picky, just as the wild ones are picky.
In Eastern Washington, the weather was almost always the same.
Hot, Clear and Sunny. In those days I never would have considered using the Tiny #20 flies.
I'd come up with a Shrimp imitation with some Green chenelle. That usually worked. So I always started with that one.
Those Leech's might have worked. I just cant remember if any did.
I casted and retrieved. Mooching a wet fly slowly through the weeds.
Flies that expand when you stop the mooch, and retract when you pull always work better using the Mooch tecnique.
Fat flies, with softer dubbing are better than long skinny hard body Flies.
Casting from the lake, up into the stream that's flowing down into the lake, a Bi-Visable works best.
The one I liked best was called a 'Horse Turd' I dont know if that was a local name or not.
It had White hackle on both ends, and brown in the middle. Small hooks, about #15-17 were best with that fly.
I never knew why that fly worked. It just did. And only in that spot.
Doing that you needed a line with a sinking tip, not the heavy weight forward fast sinking line used for the deep part of the lake.
Out in the lake, I caught as many right up near the Beach (in the grassy area's) as I did with the same tactic out in the Deeper water near the rocks.
I rowed. I learned to hate the sound of a motor while trolling.
The sound, the shaking, the smell, constantly steering....all of it together was annoying.
I bet I've rowed half way round the world.
A guy trolled a Carey Special. Trolled it and it caught fish too.
In the cold waters of Alaska's small lakes, those Maribou Leechs worked very well. Small shrimp too.
The trick up there was finding a high spot in the lake.
A place where you could cast out into the deep and mooch the fly up hill, toward the shallow.
Strangly, I never botherd to fish for Rainbows in the Rivers. In the Rivers we always fished for Salmon.
I know a guy who could catch fish in a Mud Puddle.
He doesn't know why he has that kind of luck.
I'm after the reasoning. Why do YOU try something?
Is it because it worked once before?
Do you get some kind of a feeling when you look at all those flies in your box?
Or when you look at the water, the Weather, the Sky, the...???
Something triggers your mind to select something.
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Thanks so much for the benefit of your experience. I read (or used to) all that was written on Fish Biology. I also went to all the Biologists talks all I opportunity to.
Even the Biologists are perplexed at the feeding habits and times of the wild fish.
The hatchery fish even change after a season in the wild.
They become picky, just as the wild ones are picky.
In Eastern Washington, the weather was almost always the same.
Hot, Clear and Sunny. In those days I never would have considered using the Tiny #20 flies.
I'd come up with a Shrimp imitation with some Green chenelle. That usually worked. So I always started with that one.
Those Leech's might have worked. I just cant remember if any did.
I casted and retrieved. Mooching a wet fly slowly through the weeds.
Flies that expand when you stop the mooch, and retract when you pull always work better using the Mooch tecnique.
Fat flies, with softer dubbing are better than long skinny hard body Flies.
Casting from the lake, up into the stream that's flowing down into the lake, a Bi-Visable works best.
The one I liked best was called a 'Horse Turd' I dont know if that was a local name or not.
It had White hackle on both ends, and brown in the middle. Small hooks, about #15-17 were best with that fly.
I never knew why that fly worked. It just did. And only in that spot.
Doing that you needed a line with a sinking tip, not the heavy weight forward fast sinking line used for the deep part of the lake.
Out in the lake, I caught as many right up near the Beach (in the grassy area's) as I did with the same tactic out in the Deeper water near the rocks.
I rowed. I learned to hate the sound of a motor while trolling.
The sound, the shaking, the smell, constantly steering....all of it together was annoying.
I bet I've rowed half way round the world.
A guy trolled a Carey Special. Trolled it and it caught fish too.
In the cold waters of Alaska's small lakes, those Maribou Leechs worked very well. Small shrimp too.
The trick up there was finding a high spot in the lake.
A place where you could cast out into the deep and mooch the fly up hill, toward the shallow.
Strangly, I never botherd to fish for Rainbows in the Rivers. In the Rivers we always fished for Salmon.
I know a guy who could catch fish in a Mud Puddle.
He doesn't know why he has that kind of luck.
I'm after the reasoning. Why do YOU try something?
Is it because it worked once before?
Do you get some kind of a feeling when you look at all those flies in your box?
Or when you look at the water, the Weather, the Sky, the...???
Something triggers your mind to select something.
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