"Jonathan Cook" wrote in message
...
Tom Nakashima wrote:

(mostly him doing the talking) about working the emerger patterns. I felt
as
though I was getting a personal instructor and learned quite a lot about
emergers and how to fish them.

Do tell!

Jon.

PS: One time on a lake in late morning the sun was bright and the wind was
zilch and nothing at all was happening, so I parked my canoe in a deep
(15')
trench between a little island and the shore, and rigged up with a
chironomid
and a sinking line. I'd cast out short and let it sink all the way, and
then
stand in the canoe, start the rod tip at the surface and do a slow steady
lift
as high as I could (~10 feet of vertical movement). Had trout dinner that
night ;-), and the strikes were surprisingly hard.