Saturday, March 1, 2014

An ode to Spring and Blue Wing Olives


"Several years ago, I set aside a certain category for those things that reach so deeply and so successfully into first principles, that one's trust in them is absolute. Among them are brown trout, the Grateful Dead, and Blue Wing Olives."

Ted Leeson, The Habits of Rivers, 1994
 
 
 
 


There is nothing more therapeutic to get one through the cabin fever months than to tie up some blue wings at the vice and daydream about watching a wild brown sip new duns on a cloudy afternoon.

Here's the latest batch that will find a home on the end of my tippet this spring.




Nymphs:





Hot spot


BH Flashback
























Mercury Baetis


As close as it gets...






















 




Emergers / Duns







BWO Emerger






 


BWO RS2



BWO CDC Dun



BWO Cripple


 




 





 





BWO SS Biot Emerger
BWO SS Sparkle Emerger

 
















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