Bug levels signal good health for Oregon's Diamond Lake
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — Greg Huchko peers through the microscope at a slide that shows why Diamond Lake fly-fishers need to hang out at the lake's south end this spring casting chironomid flies.
The slide reveals a handful of the 3,332 chironomid larvae plucked from a dinner-plate sized sample of muck from the lake bed just off the pizza parlor dock, and that number has everything to do with how well Diamond Lake's trout will grow this year and what fly in the box likely will best catch them.