| Equipment & Check List
- Rods: 4, 5 or 6 weight, 9-10 feet long.
- Reels: Most
of the reels made today are fine for Lake Christine. A good,
smooth drag system can be found on reels in almost any price
range. If you are buying a reel the most important thing
to remember is to buy at a reputable fly shop and trust
what the salesman is telling you. They will try to match
you with a reel in your price range and matched to the type
of fishing you will usually do. They aren’t about
to put you in to any inferior product. In fact, that shop
won’t even have any inferior products, and if it does,
it is not the quality shop you should be patronizing. Other
than that, just be sure the reel can hold at least 50 yards
of backing with the fly line you will be using (see next
paragraph).
- Fly Lines: Weight forward floating fly lines will cover almost all of your bases for fishing on Lake Christine. At times, fishing streamer or damselfly patterns on intermediate or full sinking (up to Type 3) lines can also be very effective.
- Leaders: Here are some things to consider
in choosing leaders for lake fishing: buy 10 or 12 foot
leaders tapered to 4x if you will be using dry flies or
emergers or anything suspended in the top foot or so of
the water. Now have tippet material on hand of 4x to 6x, preferably fluorocarbon. The tapered leader can
be nylon or fluorocarbon but the tippets should all be fluorocarbon.
Attach 2 to 3 feet of tippet material to the leader and
you are ready to go. If you are fishing nymphs at deeper
levels you can use shorter leaders (7 ft or so) and longer
tippets. The tippet length to the first nymph depends on
how deep you want that nymph to be. If you are retrieving
streamer type flies or nymphs at shallow depths (2-3 feet)
use fluorocarbon leaders and tippets. You want the leader
and tippet to be under the water.
Miscellaneous Tackle
The only other tackle
needs one might have for lake fishing is some type of indicator. Many anglers shun indicators
and will use a dry fly instead. They just suspend nymphs beneath
the dry fly. If you are fishing at depth much greater than
2 or 3 feet you will find this method unwieldy. You will need
an indicator to hold up those nymphs, since most of the time
you will be using 2 or 3 of them. The type of indicator is
really not important, but the size is. We would suggest using
the smallest size possible that can hold up those nymphs.
Tiny split shot can be a help, especially if you are fishing
with tiny nymphs such as midges, etc. You should not need
shot when using the larger nymphs. That pretty much sums up
tackle needs at Lake Christine.
Other items to consider bringing
*Hat *Sunscreen *Polarized Sun Glasses *
Clippers *Hemostats *Camera
Flies for Lake Christine
Flies
As is the case for almost
any body of water the most productive flies for Rock Creek
Lake can change throughout the season, and sometimes
what works one year doesn’t seem to produce as well
the next. The patterns listed below are ones that have proven
themselves over the course of time. These are not the only
flies that one can ply the waters of Lake Christine with,
but the chances are if you have those listed you can catch
fish on any lake anywhere. For the
most up-to-date fly suggestions, give us a call at The Fly
Shop at (800) 669-3474.
STREAMERS
Rickard’s Seal Bugger, #8
Crystal Buggers, (olive,blk,olive), #8-12
Beaded Micro Bugger, (blk,brn,olive), #12
Zacks Zugger Bugger, (all colars), #8
NYMPHS
Zack Attack Damsel, (olive), #14
TFS Damsel, #14
Stillwater Nymph, #12
Zacks Zallibaetis, #14
Poxyback Callibaetis, #16
PT Nymphs, #14-20
CB Micro Mayfly, (blk), #18-20
Red Copper John, #14-18
GB Frostbite Midge, #16-18
Chromie, #16
Mercer’s Gidget, (olive,brn), #18
Mercer’s Zebra Midgeling, #18-20
DRIES
Parachute Adams, #16-20
Callibaetis Cripple, #16
Callibaetis Spinner, #16
Pop Top Midge Emerger, (olive,blk), #20
Griffith Gnat, #20
Quigley’s Spider Midge, #20
TFS Foam Beetle, #14-18
Oswald’s Parafoam Ant, #16
Black Flying Ant, #14
Chernobyl Ant, #10
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