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Tag Archives: mayfly
Have Trico, Will Travel
[I’ll be going off the grid for a week or so beginning in the afternoon on 8/22, so if you leave a comment here after that time, it may be a few days before I can respond to it. In … Continue reading
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Tagged fly-fishing, mayfly, nature, outdoors, photography, reverence, small stream, travel, Trico, wild trout
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Fish Tails and Mayfly Wings
To prime myself for the start of a reading tour promoting Beautiful Like a Mayfly, I went fishing. No surprise there, right? It was a cold day with snowflurries and an air temperature never climbing out of the 30s. There was … Continue reading
Good Morning From the Lily Pool
Dear Everyone, Longtime Reader and Newly Arrived, I thought I’d post this in a different manner, as a “letter.” You’ll recall, no doubt, that a letter is a form of communication used in ages past, before the Dawn of Email. … Continue reading
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Tagged fly-fishing, kinks, letters, lily, mayfly, music, natural balance, nature, small streams, soul, sunny day, West Branch, wild trout
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Matchin’ That Hatch
May 30: In the long meadow pool of the Allegheny, rainbow trout were rising to the surface but it took a while to figure out that it wasn’t mayflies or caddis they were feeding on, but midges. Tiny black midges. … Continue reading
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Tagged bait-fishing, balance, Blue-winged Olive, caddis, crawfish, dry fly fishing, Green Drake, Kettle Creek, matching the hatch, mayfly, midge, nature, Roger Chapman, Streetwalkers, wild
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Late Hatch, Home River
Despite the afternoon wind and chilly temperatures, the sun was shining and I decided to check on the upper Genesee. Past experience told me that if anything was hatching from the river it would be the autumn sedge (a caddis … Continue reading
Rivertop Rambles 