"Tim Lysyk" wrote

use is called the Flat Creek Hopper, and is from the same book. It floats
like a cork, and the trout will really hammer it. I used it on a


wow, more memories ... I spent a couple summers training dogs on clients
private property and the south section of the Elk preserve in Jackson. As
I remember Flat Creek opens really late in the season, but is a 'stalkers'
dream come true.

I'll google the pattern

Jack Dennis once told me how to 'sneak onto' a spring creek along the Snake,
near my clients property and told me that at worse the owner would just
chase me off, probably even let me stay and fish, but not to bother asking
permission as it was never granted in advance (apparently the owner was well
known as eccentric in Jackson ) .... I was too chicken **** ( oh, let's
change that to ethical :-) to ever do it though