Long Range Fish Report
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Fish Report for 2-23-2013

Imitations at Lewiston Lake are Stripping & retrieving nymphs, leeches & buggers is working

2-23-2013
The Fly Shop

Current Lake Conditions: Fishing fair. Conditions have been too windy recently. That said, the rainbows will chase #16 PT nymphs stripped on a floating line, midge patterns suspended under a small indicator. Most rainbows go 12-15" with a few big enough to break your junk off and leave you slack jawed. Lewiston is a fun lake to fish. Going?

Use a sinking line! A good sinking line to use is RIO's Big Boy 24" Sink Tip.

The Fly Shop's?? Tips: A productive technique is suspending #22 red zebra midges or Gidgets under a treated piece of poly yarn. A single BB shot will get the flies down deep. About 7-8 feet. When using indicators, the takes can be difficult to see and detect. Successful indicator anglers keep the flies in the water, sometimes letting the drift extend all the way to the backing, then low and slow retrieve. Sink tip fly lines allow anglers to retrieve leeches, buggers and small nymphs fast or slow. This lake is best fished from a motorized boat, pram or pontoon boat. Float tubes are fine if you are okay with walking back up to the parking lot after the slow current of Lewiston pushes you south of the boat ramp.

Suggested Fly Patterns:

Dry Flies:
• Parachute Adams #14
• Hackle Stackers - BWO #18
• Parachute Adams - #14-18
• Fox's Scum Dun #14
• Mayfly Cripples
• Mercer's Poxyback Callibaetis Emerger

Nymphs/Wet Flies:
• CB Frostbites - #18
• Sparkle Scuds #14-16
• Pseudo Mays in brown and/or olive - #16-18
• Lightnin's Biot Baetis #16-18
• Tobinator - Rust #16
• Ultra Scuds #16
• Sparkle Scuds
• Serendipity - #20
• Chromies - #18-20
• Mercer's Micro May - Black #18
• BH Pheasant Tail Nymph #16-18
• Pheasant Tail Nymph #14-16
• Sparkle Scuds - #14-16
• Zebra Midges - #18-20
• Mercer's Gidgets

Streamers/Leeches:
• Translucent Wiggle Tail
• Zack's Swimming Leech - #8
• Zack's Damseleech - Orange/Olive

Fly Fishing Gear:
• Outcast?? Fish Cat 9-IR
• Simms?? Freestone Stocking-foot Waders
• Patagonia's?? Riverwalker Rubber Sole Boot
• Dinsmore Removable Egg Shape Shot
• Fishpond?? Swift Current Thermometer


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