I want to shout out to Micah again for providing intel on Crane Prairie. I was going again Thursday but had to cancel, so his reports from yesterday and Friday give me something to share. Friday, on a breezeless day we said the fishing was slow…. A few eats but skunked after losing a few before the net. Saturday was much better as we both agree the breeze put the fish at ease to feed and the bite seems better. He said a Black Balanced leech was best. Plenty of fish around the grass flats on the Cow Meadow Side. I think we have 2 nice weeks of CP fishing ahead, and you know how CP goes…. It is hot and then it’s not. 
Bring the Chironomids, Balanced Minnows, Leeches, Boatman, Scuds, Damsel Nymphs and Dragonfly Nymphs and don’t always rely on the indicator and get the slow sink lines out too. Plus, Purple Chubby and Red Hippie Stomper are 2 dries to carry and use them as a searcher if fish are not rising and as an attractor if they are. BTW, On October 13th 2019 I was there with my friend and good customer Skip P and we had a good little feeding action on small spiders that were using their web to drift across the lake to the forest beyond. Not all were making it and the ones that hit the calm lake were getting sipped by trout that keyed on that quickly. 
When I started in the fly fishing business in 1986 there was a customer who I have mentioned before on my blog named Clyde Keller. He was a a WW2 Vet, a National Champion for Fly Casting and he later became a mentor and co-worker and eventually an employee of mine. In the fall of about 1992 or 93 he and I were at Rock Creek on CP in his boat and there was guy in a nearby boat catching a lot of fish. We asked him on what and the answer surprised me to this day. An Irresistible Adams. He painted this scene for me after the day as a gift and this is a painting a cherish- Sorry it comes in sideways here, I am just happy that bastard with the Irresistible isn’t in the scene