a fine lake day
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Is that Dark Assassin a size #20? How far down did you set your dropper length?
correct, dropper at 4', fishing it in water from 8' to 12' deep. The usual Crane Prarie go to's of Balanced Leeches and Chrom's and larger midges just weren't doing much the past coupla sessions, so decided to give micro a try. Biggest fish of the day smacked the Ant and took off running with it, spit the barbless hook out when it went aerial.
Cool, thanks! I'd love to also see your Ant pattern. I was in Sunriver a couple weeks ago and hit East Lake a few times. One day they only wanted a red snow cone chironomid 5' under the bobber, the next two days they only wanted hares ears about 2' under, but I ran into a couple fly fishermen who said they were getting them on black beetles and ants. I saw their beetle but want to see a good ant pattern for future trips.
Smaller Ant and Beetle patterns work from mid summer on fishing the edges of East and Paulina.
Chernobyl Ants are a bigger fly, popular on the bigger rivers in Montana and Wyoming, that foam makes a great indicator.
Actually prefer using a Chubby in size 10, was just out of them...routinely gets takes on them during summer when being primarily used as an indicator.
Chernobyl
Chubby
Thanks, you just shortened my learning curve! At my age, that’s really helpful, LOL.
whenever coming to our area to fish, always good to catch up on Jeff Perrin's latest report on same, his weekly fshing report offers up the flies working best the time of the report...and his shop in Sisters is a great place to stop by for fly suggestions in person, quality crew works there
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I have been following Jeff's reports for the last couple years, and got to meet him a couple weeks ago when we were in town. His references to red snow cone chironomids at East Lake were my report to him, LOL. They killed 'em one day, mostly browns, but were ignored in favor of hares ears the next two during the week I was down there. The #20 nymphs were something I hadn't tried but they would have matched those occasional chironomids I saw hatching.whenever coming to our area to fish, always good to catch up on Jeff Perrin's latest report on same, his weekly fshing report offers up the flies working best the time of the report...and his shop in Sisters is a great place to stop by for fly suggestions in person, quality crew works there
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very cool..wife and I wandered into Jeff's shop almost 20 years ago, got to talking, and he drew us a complex map to a hard to find stretch of river where we enjoyed some excellent dry fly action.