On Jul 29, 11:22*am, Dave LaCourse wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:14:17 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On Jul 28, 3:26*pm, Dave LaCourse wrote:
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*Plus, a fish are eating machines - they'll strike if their
belly is full or empty.

I'll never forget fishing one of Michigan's upper peninsula streams
(each and every one a jewel!) and taking brookie after brookie on a
horsefly imitation. *Almost every one of those brookies was so full
when I brought them to hand that they had bugs all the way up their
throats and into their mouths! *But still they'd take my fly with
reckless abandon.

Dreaming of birch, loons, and the howl of timber wolves,
B

On the last day of my Kamchatka trip, one of my party took an enormous
(31+ inches) rainbow on a mouse pattern. *The fish never recovered
even though the guides and the sport tried for over 30 minutes. *They
finally killed the fish and when they cleaned it, its stomach was full
of lemmings (mice). *Big and fat it was. *And delicious for breakfast
the last day.

Dave

Dave, do you recall the particular mouse pattern? Im putting together
a box just for hog patterns, crawdads, mice, etc. No need for duckling
patterns however :-))

Dave