Upper Sac Green Drakes !

Well, I guess I had better not make any promises about when updates will happen to this blog. Last entry said I would report on the following Saturday, and here it is five weeks later,
time flies when you are having fun.
I have been all over the place in the last five weeks, looking at and fishing a bunch of the local waters. Most recently I spent a few days on McCloud Reservoir. Many anglers do not try still water fishing, but it can be very productive fishing buggers on sinking lines and nymphs on floating lines in a lake. Main thing you need is a knowledge of the lake and where the schools of fish like to hang out. Once you know the best areas, it is just a matter of fishing each until you locate the schools. I have about a half dozen spot on McCloud Reservoir that I commonly fish and I can always find fish in at least a few of them. On the really good days there will be fish in all of them.
So given that the fishing is productive the other nice aspect of lake fishing is working out of the boat. This provides fishing opportunities to anglers who are not interested in the rigors of a walk and wade trip.

The latest news is the fishing on the Upper Sac. Went out last night with Tom Chandler (of the Trout Underground fame) and stumbles across a nice green drake hatch. Rumors of a green drakes on the river have been going around for a week or so, and I have been doubting the idea. Too much believing the hatch charts. I was convinced that it was too early for a Green Drake hatch. Showed me. Now I gotta eat a little humble pie.
It is interesting that the Drakes I was seeing last night were a little smaller that the “normal “ Green Drake hatch on the Upper Sac. The June Green Drakes are a good size 10 to 8, whereas the ones last night were more like a size 12ish. I did see one larger drake flying thru the air that looked like a size 8 but the rest were more like a 12. Tom took some nice macro shots of one that I caught and has posted it on the Trout Underground. It is hard to tell size from a photo but I guess it at a fat size 12. I suspect that this is a hatch of Drunella Doddsi rather than the Drunella Grandis. I have done a little bit of internet research but have not found a easy way to tell them apart except by size.
This page talks about the Doddsi genus as being 25% smaller than the Grandis:
The Mckenzie Page

So that’s my story and I am sticking to it (for now).

Any entomologists wanna weight here?