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Flavs and Wildflowers

Here are a few pics of flav spinners (Drunella Flavilinea).  While the larger green drakes (Drunella Doddsi and Drunella Grandis) garner more attention locally, I have often found a fly sized more closely to a #14 flav works FAR better on the Wood and nearby streams.  The dog days of Summer have started with the high today in Ketchum somewhere near 90. Here are a few flav spinner pics:

 

 

 

 

Here's a pic of Bitterroot taken around 7,500 feet:

 

Larkspur:

 

Stonecrop:

 

Royal Stimulator.  I don't have many guide days where not a single fly is lost or changed, but yesterday, we managed to fish the entire day with just this stimulator: