Callibaetis

"Callibaetis Color"

Here's another image I skipped over last summer.  It's of a callibaetis on Silver Creek and the focus is on the body rather than the head.  This particular callibaetis had probably just molted which can explain the more vibrant body color.  Image taken with the Nikon 105 2.8 and extension tubes.

I am in the process of going through my entire photo library and keywording just about all of my images.  While this is a major pain to accomplish it really taught me a lesson: When uploading images--in my case into Aperture--ALWAYS add keywords, copyright and other pertinent info.  It is far easier to do when uploading than years later with over 100,000 images to sort through.

Wet weather here today...  Snowing.  Wet snow.

Big Wood River

Girdle bug...  "The Gird's The Word."

Spent Midge

Some images taken today on the Big Wood.  Sunny and mid-forties today.  Looks like highs in the forties through the week with clouds too.  We couldn't ask for much more...

Images taken with the Nikon 105 2.8 and extension tubes.

March "Midge" Madness

Lots and lots of midges on the Big Wood right now and the dry fly fishing is really good at the moment and probably will only get better unless we see drastic changes in our weather.  I was on the Wood in Hailey and north of Ketchum today and while there were certainly more bugs North Valley, there was still plenty of good stuff as far downstream as Hailey.  The last two weeks of March really are some of the best weeks of the year for dries on the Wood. 

Winter Stoneflies

Lots of bugs on the Big Wood these days.  Rained hard last night with a strong wind event and it is now about 20.  Think ice.  Otherwise it's warming and fishing really well.  The three images above are of small winter stoneflies we get on the Wood starting around the end of February.    They are called neumoras.  The last image is to give you an idea of scale.  They are small.  Smaller than many of the super abundant midges crawling around on the snowy banks.