Bug Page 2005
Blue Winged Olives blessed my Opening Day! Rises all day long as the hatch kept up up almost all day. From emerger, to dun, to spinner fall. We threw caddis in the slow periods and still drew strikes. It was my best opening day ever. Even lost a lunker that afternoon! What a memory.
I know I'm starting to get good. I lose better fish with some regularity now!
A Sulpher Hatch from June 2005. Note the newly hatched adult in the middle of the spinners!
The Sulpher Dun. A Big juicy fly that BIG Trout do snack on willingly!
We had some fun as full grown adult Steelhead cruised and sipped and slashed at the big juicy yellow bugs, from emergance time to spinner fall.
The hatch was like nothing I'd experienced!
The bugs were everywhere. In my hair, my ears. I could hardly cast. Not to mention the violent surface splashes all around me in the dying daylight. Hard on the nerves but fun as hell! I just pointed my camera into the dark...
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Look hard for the beedy little eyes of the crawfish that were also out for mayflies to eat for their dinner. You can even see a nymph!
Scroll down to see more Sulpher Duns caught in flight. Also shown - a juicy yellow one caught in the moss at the waters edge.
