spittendrigh wrote:


Of those 400 or so painted outlines of large fish (at Bailey's) almost
all were large browns. The number of 4 pound or larger rainbows was
small, for some reason. One interesting (also missing) detail was
that of the "24% were taken with Woolly Worms, Bitch Creeks, Girdle
Bugs"
a disproportion number of those were taken with "Duck Lake Specials"

The Duck Lake Special (now a forgotten fly) was an extra-long
Woolly Worm, tied on an 8x long shank, with or without a Bugger
like tail. Also, not all of the Duck Lake Special fish were caught
in Duck Lake (on the Blackeet Reservation).

The Duck Lake Special certainly isn't a forgotten fly in Idaho.

The one time I fished the Duck Lake Reservation (Lake Billy Shaw) I
tried the Duck Lake Special, but didn't have much luck with it. I had my
best success with a Skip's Nymph drifted (by wind drag) through the
drowned sagebrush. That was deadly.

Billy Shaw is an interesting lake. It's a rather recently created
reservoir with lots and lots of dead sagebrush. The decomposing organic
manner evidently makes for a rich feeding environment. The downside is
that it also makes it hard to land fish.

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