Recent content by fkajwg

Yes. The body should be gray and tied thin. https://charliesflybox.com/blogs/step-by-step-tutorials/sparkle-dun Jay

OK, I’ll confess, there was one day on Leech when they were taking Callibaetis and my sparkle duns, and then later they were refusing my fly even though the real bugs were still around. I switched up to a leech, caught a fish, and sampled it. It was now eating little antish/waspy things. So...

My 2 patterns for hatching Callibaetis on the left, and two good midge emergers on themright.

My experience has been that parachute Adams work sometimes just fine, but may be refused at other times. I’ve settled on sparkle dun in gray as an emerger taken without hesitation or refusal, and similarity, a gray cripple. 14 or 16. Jay

Greensburg IN. High thin clouds and jet trails. Jay

And now multiple species of orca are likely. Interesting! https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/new-research-reveals-full-diversity-killer-whales-two-species-come-view-pacific-coast Jay

The last shot catches the act, and in addition to showing the hood in profile, reveals how it uses its tail to push down on the water to help raise it up for the dive, which I did not know. Good shot! Jay

very cool that you got the olive in the beak and pictures in the olive tree setting. I took my visiting daughter around locally for some "nature" a couple of days before christmas. at WE Johnson Park at the usual spot we saw up to a couple of dozen bluebirds. Gray day, low light, high ISO long...