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  Midges & Crane Flies ( Aquatic Diptera)        The subject of aquatic Diptera is vast, fascinating and much too comprehensive to treat here, except in a most general manner.  Most Diptera are not associated with trout waters but are slow water species of the warmer climates.  Thus we will limit our discussion to those that seem to important to the diet of the trout:  midges and cr... Read More

The hiss of a line in a light evening breeze sends this rose of feather, fur and steel out over a pool so clear shadows freeze where it drops.  To be in this place, to feel the and promise of the river turn to wishing then transformation in wing scattered points of evening light, a woman learns fishing with her heart.  For all the loss fall anoints with yellow and red under a painful blue, she watches her question drift in the last light and waits to see it dimple and vanish through a... Read More

Stone Flies (Plecoptera)           Stone flies are primitive insects, fossils show that they have existed for 220 million years; Stone flies generally represent a much smaller percentage of the trout's diet than do May flies and caddis flies.  This type of generality can be quite misleading however, forever if stone flies represented less than 10  percent of the trout's diet on a particular stream, it is quite possible to arrive on the... Read More

Are Trout of this river's song, sharp in the current and vague on the flats? Do trout dance for any reason but love, fanning a harp of water for the sheer gravity of a chance encounter with death, Clearing the surface in time to stop a mind from shattering distraction? Can trout know the purity of the pools they mime in the deep mirrors of their scales? Who began this risky trip into the howl of a broken river? The small streams mother us all back to a speck in our brains called home on a trai... Read More

It may not be apparent to the casual observer, or even to the novice fly fisherman, but beneath the stark beauty of a tumbling trout stream there lives a complex, thriving community of life.  This community of microscopic organisms, aquatic insects, and fishes, is quite intricate.  Each form of life, from the tiniest to the largest, is interlinked and dependent upon the other for survival.  Scientists call these communities ecosystems, food chains, or food webs.     &nb... Read More

This method has been described by some as the repeated series of leisering lifts used to fish the water.  That is a fair description and while it does not require the preciseness of presentation of the lift in order to be more than marginally effective, the artificial must be a fair to good imitation of a natural found in the stretch being fished.     In fishing either method, the line used must be one that takes the fly down very quickly.  If the botton is relativ... Read More

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