I was at Hosmer on Friday. No apparent hatches and very clear water. I threw the box at them for three hours with nothing. Other fishers were getting maybe a fish per rod at best. Finally, I put on a #18 red Chronomid and did a S L O W twitchy retrieve and caught eight in about 45 minutes before I had to go. All Atlantics. That place can bring me to my knees.. but if I'm lucky enough to find the right pattern, there's no place funner!
Jay
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they can sure be finicky there. I remember a trip out there two summers ago. Was trying to land some atlantics with a quick stripped streamer, nada! My two buddies head in with 1/2 hour of light left. I stayed and fished near the ramp. The atlantics started to feed hard on a hatch, and I tossed the basic #14 adams. As fast as I could cast and twitch, it was hammered. I landed
about 10 plus a BAT before it was all over. One of those times when you are just in the "fly zone"
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I didn't see any Brookies. I fished from 9:00 am until about 2:30 on a hot bright day. Not what I would call ideal conditions. The biggest Atlantic was about 16 inches. The two times I have fished that lake I have found my best luck following the left weed edge as you leave the boat ramp. On this occasion the magic combo was to keep 30-40 0ff the edge, cast a floating line just off the edge with a 12' leader down to 6x florocarbon and the red fly I mentioned and its black twin as a dropper. All but one fish took the red one. After I cast I slowly kicked backwards in my pontoon boat one fin--rest-- then the other fin. The whole time I was twitching the heck our of the line with my right index finger. The last time I was there the same technique worked with a small flashback pheasant tail nymph.
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