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  • serotonin
    ember
    • Oct 2004
    • 2399
    #1

    Brown Drake Lake

    Traveled to a large lake yesterday morning, in search of twenty-inch rising rainbows gorging on big brown drakes.

    The fantastic mayflies were there, doing there thing. Plenty of spinners on the surface but very few rising fish. The best two fish we could manage were smallmouth; a 4 and a 5 pounder. Colorwise, the nicest smallmouth i've ever seen. But Alas...! that's not what we came for.
    I'd like to sample the Evening program, but if i can't get back there by early next week, i fear that the yearly Brown Drake performance will be over.

    The water was extraordinarily clear. No problem seeing 20 feet deep. Plenty of 30 inch carp cruising by the boat, but the biggest fish we saw were darker. Lakers cruising in 10 feet of water at this time of year...?!!!
    Bass over 30 inches...?!!!
    What's going on here... and where are those Rainbows...?!!!

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    • ken999
      Member
      • Apr 2004
      • 957
      #2
      ...pike?....

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        • Ordin Aryguy
          or·di·nar·y
          • Apr 2004
          • 671
          #3
          Sero,
          You fished the infamous rise, eh? A co-worker who lives on said lake relayed that her nephew has been catching her "fish to order." She tells him how big of a trout would make a suitable dinner for her and he heads off towards the water to make his aunt proud.

          The story with the hatch timing is that this is a very cold lake, and the hatch comes when the lake thermocline inverts (all this learned from my new best friend who lives on the lake )

          Should you ever wander this way again, lemme know.


          Ordin
          They speak of my drinking, but never of my thirst...

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            • serotonin
              ember
              • Oct 2004
              • 2399
              #4
              Cool Ordin... maybe we can hook up.
              Is your friend fishing the evening?
              I fished the morning, so i'm guessing the evening is better.
              It was a sunny day w/no cloud cover, so maybe that was a factor too.
              A couple other guys we talked to didn't do any better.

              Ken, that's a good guess on the pike. They just seemed too 'girthy' for their length, to be pike. Maybe they were unusually fat pike. Those smallies sure were healthy.

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                • drofr
                  Member
                  • Jun 2005
                  • 1
                  #5
                  Please Don't Eat The Daisey!

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                    • Ordin Aryguy
                      or·di·nar·y
                      • Apr 2004
                      • 671
                      #6
                      She's out today or I'd ask her when the best fishing times are. One tidbit I did get from her is that the hatch usually goes for only a week and half to two weeks, then the inversion is complete. Wrong conditions, no bugs.

                      The next 3 days are bad for me, but next week slipping out of work mid-afternoon might be a reasonable and workable plan.


                      Ordin
                      They speak of my drinking, but never of my thirst...

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                        • serotonin
                          ember
                          • Oct 2004
                          • 2399
                          #7
                          Great. Maybe i can swing that. Let's talk after the weekend.

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