Red Para-Spinners

Quick Ties 2

Caperer wet flies (light and dark), Blue Jay Tail, Olive Hen Pheasant soft hackle.

Trouting in Western Mass

  

Ecdyonurus Spinners Revisited

Wine red and couple od shades of pink, for fishing just before dark... I prefer extended body flies without the polypropylene wing throughout the day, unless tied for dusk fishing.

Mayfly Gnats Revisited

Mayfly Gnats revisited... Didn't have best of luck with Gamakatsu R10-B hooks, since they get opened by strong fish easy (and many weren't large, but 100% wild!) These are tied on Firehole Sticks 413 hooks.

 

Flat Water Sulphurs

Easy-tying pale yellow duns...with hot orange thorax and undersize "messy" hackle.

Reunion: Jazz and Childhood Paths

Limestone Crnica River in the shadow of 14th century monastery in Sisevac has prolific hatches, and jazz performance in Belgrade, Serbia.

Mayfly Gnats

Hendricksons

Emergers and half-drowned duns.

Hatching Danica & Lady Crab



Baetis and Jazz

Baetis soft hackle emergers with coot wings, and one of my favorite classic jazz documentaries...

 

French Partridge & CDC Mayfly

Driftless Photo Essay #2

 

For the past four days I had a great time visiting my old haunts in the Driftless area. The creeks were in a great shape and I was enjoying fishing dry flies over spooky wild browns during the hottest time of the day, by stalking individual risers. Most surface feeders would happily take a cricket or ant during any time of the day, or a BWO imitation during sporadic BWO hatches.