Understand, please, that I have and still do use long-shank hooks in lakes; it's just a matter of preference—I prefer standard and short shanks, feel they have a small but significant advantage over the long shanks, and use them instead of the long shanks when I can.
As seen in Hine's emerald dragonfly , male populations use wetland habitats, while females use dry meadows and marginal breeding habitats, only migrating to the wetlands to lay their eggs or to find mating partners.
They are fast, agile fliers capable of highly accurate aerial ambush, sometimes migrating across oceans, and often live near water.
Damsels and Dragons Skip's Furry Dragon Perhaps because they are preoccupied with the frenzied spring-summer hatching migrations of plentiful wiggle-swimming damselfly nymphs, lake fly fishers tend to undervalue the sparse, quiet hatching of the dragonfly.