Louis Corbin interview -- October 1992

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Louis Corbin Edited Transcript – October 1992
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This interview was conducted with Louis Corbin in October 1992. The interviewer is Danny Beatty.
DB: Chironomid fishing is now your favorite method of fishing Pass Lake. You’ve talked about that too, that you like to fish chironomid patterns.
LC: Yes.
DB: At this time is fishing with a chironomid pattern your favorite method?
LC: That’s right.
DB: Has that changed in the last fifty years?
LC: Well it seems like I find something new every year or every time I go.
DB: Okay. Okay, that answers the next part of this question, which is do you fish Pass Lake the same way all time or do you change with the season?
LC: No, no, no, no, I very seldom catch two fish on the same fly; [oh I guess I always have a new pattern I want to try out]. I catch fish and change.
DB: Okay now, in terms of a method of fishing chironomid patterns, you’ve explained that to me, and we already have it written down here. I wrote that for the club newsletter a couple, three, years ago and that’s pretty much the same.
LC: Yes, practically the same.
DB: Are there any other methods you could elaborate on besides what was in the newsletter?
LC: Well on the chironomid fishing early [in the season], I recently have been working with emergers, chironomid emergers a couple of patterns that have produced pretty well for me and it surprised me the size of fish that I catch with them.
DB: Small flies, big fish?
LC: Yes.
DB: That’s what you’re finding?
LC: On the emerger, yes.
DB: That’s what you find unusual?