SOUL OF STREAMS: Chain-stitched Blue-winged Olive Mayfly Trial

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Chain-stitched Blue-winged Olive Mayfly Trial

The Blue-winged Olive mayflies are hatching. If you enjoy fishing imitations of the duns, you may qualify for 4 chain-stitched BWO patterns to try. The first 3 individuals who respond via comment to this post will receive the flies. You must then fish them over trout feeding on adult Baetis and report back through email your experience(s).

8 comments:

kolobflyfishing said...: i'd like to try. my email is kdiddyb@hotmail.com; April 1, 2009 at 9:59 PM
THeBLender said...: I don't know if I would qualify since I live in Northern Idaho and we had 5 inches of snow last night but I'd love to give your flies a try.

blender135@hotmail.com; April 2, 2009 at 8:36 AM
Mike said...: I'd love to give them a shot. This is msilv8335 from UotF. You can email me from there or shoot me a pm.; April 2, 2009 at 8:38 AM
Robert said...: Okay. Looks like we have the 3 for this one.

Mike, I'm not on UotF anymore so email me at cutttrout16@msn.com

Thanks.; April 2, 2009 at 1:22 PM
jabberwock said...: Aaaargh! Go out fishing and miss the freebies.; April 2, 2009 at 2:50 PM
Pat said...: Yup, I missed out to being that I'm going to the Green this weekend. Err!; April 2, 2009 at 5:29 PM
Mike said...: jabberwock - I'll share next time we go out. :); April 2, 2009 at 8:42 PM
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Alice Tudes; February 8, 2010 at 6:39 AM

Fremont Island of Great Salt lake

Our Scout group took a trip out to Fremont Island in the Great Salt lake. Everyone rode a barge style boat with camping gear for an overnighter, except for two brave souls who paddled a canoe playing the parts of Kit Carson and John C. Fremont, the Islands name sake. The canoe ride was suppose to be 3 miles but ended up more like 7. We didn't take into consideration that we had to paddle most of the length of the Island to get to the camping site.

As part of the adventure, we hiked to the very top of the Island were Kit Carson carved a 7 inch cross into the rock on the summit. It was neat to think we were viewing a piece of history. The cross was carved (scatched) into the rock September 9, 1843.

All Day Long

I love to fish the Logan River. The scenery in the canyon is beautiful: clean clear water, pine , maple, willow, river birch and aspen stand as the forground to backdrops of cliffs, majestic mountain peaks and billowing white clouds against a blue sky. To me it doesn't get much better, anywhere!

I prefer to seek out the cutthroat trout found high in the headwaters and meadow sections of the river. Ocassionally, I fish down lower where a few more brown trout can be found. I can spent all day in the area, catching cutthroat like the one pictured.

Air-filled Flies

I've been messing around with a material that allows for the creation of air-filled fly bodies. This stonefly adult is created with the material. I've used this pattern for several years now and have had good success. It's been used in Montana and Idaho on the Madison and Henry's Fork.

The material is nothing more than heat shrink tubing. I have a way to imprint on it, thus creating the neat patttern on the bottom of the fly.

The material is available in several colors and diameters. To date, I have created stoneflies, hoppers, cicada and beetle patterns. Fun stuff!

"Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape in his experience; to look at it from as many angles as he can, to wonder upon it, to dwell upon it.

He ought to imagine that he touches it with his hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it.

He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind. He ought to recollect the glare of the moon and the colors of the dawn and dusk."

--N. Scott Momaday

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Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Chain-stitched Blue-winged Olive Mayfly Trial

8 comments:

SUMMER FUN!

BROWN TROUT