Three flies for spring BWOs

For the nymph stage:

The Beer Head Nymph

For the emergent stage:

The Flashback Purple Haze Soft Hackle

For the surface emerger/cripple/adult stage:

Purple Haze Quigley Cripple 

Spider from Mars

Royal PMX

Uh oh! RBM spent the time to learn how to take super-macros without a macro lens. It's lowest F value possible, appropriate shutter speed for light, manual focus ONLY, and the zoom feature is totally fine in this application.  I'm so freaking happy right now.  Look forward to much better pics of bugs, both living and fake.

One of the best flies on the face of the planet, one of the best albums on the face of the planet.

It's springtime in America

I looked through my logs and noticed that on this day in previous years, I was seeing Mother's Day caddis hatches on the Clark Fork.  We don't get monster hatches like the Yellowstone or Madison but we do get a solid showing if the conditions are right.  This has been a unique year and conditions have not been right yet and I don't know If they ever will be, so far as fishing is concerned.

Mother's Day caddis

March brown emerger

My old snapshot camera used to take great super-macro pictures like this old picture of a Mother's Day Caddis and March brown emerger.  I can't wait to get a macro lens for my real camera.

The Easy Mother's Day Caddis

HOOK: size 20-14 (18-16 is best)
THREAD: 8/0 color to match dubbing
DUBBING: Hand blend Super Fine dry fly dubbing in natural colors (tan, olive, yellow, brown)
WING: CDC oiler puffs
THORAX: Dub some CDC and develop a small thorax over where you tie in the wing

This fly is a great fly for teaching beginners how to tie dry flies.  This is a super effective fly and they are so easy to tie, you can do it while you are driving!


-RBM Chronicles does not promote distracted driving-