forgot some things . . .

I'm calling it a searching pattern as I simply swing it through
riffles, looking for fish -- there's not much targeting going on. If
I had wished, after getting hits and no hookups, I could've switched
over to another type fly and hope for better hookup results.

The fly did squat in slow current -- it needed faster water. It even
picked up fish in very fast chutes -- the only decent fish and only
brown was hooked and LDRed in a very fast chute.

The 50 hits is a very conservative estimate -- some fish were whacking
it three and four times. At first I though "chubs" but all but one of
the fish that I hooked up, landed or saw, were rainbows. These are
baby steelies, first, second, and third year fish where the oldest run
8" to 10" -- a lot of fun on a 2/3 wt.

I've had days on Whitemans where I've had a lot of hits but never on
the same fly like this. I'll be trying it on the Grand for browns as
well -- the upstream end of Frustration Flats should give it a
workout.

I think the approach should work for any caddis species where the
females dive to lay eggs then swim back up.

Peter

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