"Joe McIntosh" wrote in message
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sounds like gannons every where last weekend.!!!!!
I've really only seen two big hatches in my limited fishing life [ love
bugs on route one in Florida, and a tyco hatch on Silver creek [Yea Jeff
I
know you have heard and heard that story }

Now i hear we are going out at three in afternoon to reserve our casting
spot for the big green drake hatch at 6 pm this year at Penns !!!
Yet no one has told us visitors from dixie land what fly we need to slay
these 23 1/2 inch browns
Tom are you offering a special ( I still have some of those yellow dits
you
sold me three years ago) hope this time the fly will be large enough to
spot
occasionally between gulpers.


By the way for you western clavers miss verlyn klinkenborg had a nice
editorial in last sunday's NYT about the lack of a mayfly hatch due to the
longstanding drought--"I had come with my friends to the river hoping to
find a small mayfly. The conditions were perfect--low clouds, falling
snow,
highs in the mid-thirties. At some point during mid-afternoon we should
have seen the emergence of a generation of mayflies, slate-gray insects
perched high on the river-film as though the river had somehow
crystallized
into millions of winged invertebrates. When that happens, the trout begin
to feed on the mayflies, and suddenly the river maps the position of every
fish. But we saw at best a few hundred of the insects we had come to see,
not enough to bring the trout to the surface."

I realize most of you roffers read the sunday times but included this for
those of you who were out killing snakes. And it is time for another
manahatten!
Thanks Wayno for commenting on my last message about music and the good
life--really thought i would arouse some comment calling moby a great
musician--guess no one else bothered to read it as it included no dirty
words.

Mr Indian Joe



Joe, The Feathered Hook in Coburn will hook you up for the Drake hatch and
spinner fall. You WILL be able to see these bugs just fine!
The run to about a size 10 streamer hook sized insect.
Tom