Mkorb,

No straw, just drop the oars between strokes and give the line a twitch with one hand and hoist the beer bottle with the other. Boy, you really do need help learning to fly fish, don't you?

I've never fished chronies under an indicator, but if I did, I'd attach the indicator so that the chronie imitation was suspended one foot off the lake bottom cuz that's what other anglers tell me they do. I wouldn't use a sink tip line for this application.

Preston,

I don't fish lakes much, but have always read and heard that dry fly fishing is unproductive the vast majority of the time. Exceptions I'm familiar with are the callebaetis and sedges on Chopaka and some BC lakes and the evening pink lady rise on western WA lakes. Most of the time it's dragon fly nymphs, chironomids, damselflies in season, caddis imitations, and then woollybuggers anytime. Although I haven't tried indicator fishing on a lake, I'm not sure how watching a dry fly on a lake is any more interesting than watching the bobber, unless the rise form is spectacular somehow.

Sg