More rising trout

Here are some more rising trout shots I took yesterday.  After cropping a few of the images to take a much closer look (I looked at the mouth & what the fish was about to eat at 2:1) I noticed first, there were midges on the water I didn't even see while taking the shots.  Also, I twice captured a fish coming up to take what appeared to be nothing but on MUCH closer inspection (so grainy I won't post here) it appeared to be an empty midge exoskeleton...  Stuff to note.  I am heading down to Silver Creek again today.  I can't get enough of it.  Should be a good baetis day given the cloudy weather.  We'll see...

Rising Trout

While I was down at Silver Creek today there were quite a few baetis coming off and I thought I'd try and get a few "rise and bug" close-ups.  I shot over 500 frames and have only looked at a few of them.  I had to sit still in the same spot and let the fish "adjust" to my presence before they started to feed as though I was not there.  It was pretty interesting to watch the fish decide which baetis to eat.  Even though fishing season is closed, there is no doubt these fish are still selective.  I watched on many occassions a certain rainbow look closely at a baetis and at the last moment refuse it and move on.  Pretty cool stuff.

First remote post using the iphone

OK, I am sitting down at the Nature Conservancy on Silver Creek at the moment. I am just out taking a few shots of feeding fish and remote thunderheads. The doves and sand hill cranes have showed up. Other than not being able to fish down here at the moment (our fishing season opens on the Saturday of Memorial Weekend) May is a great time to be poking around Silver Cr. There are essentially no human things around. There are as many swallows eating the newly emerged baetis as there are trout. Here's a pic I just shot with the iphone. I converted it to black and white using the Best Camera application (http://www.thebestcamera.com/). I'll post my feeding trout shots soon.

Drunella Grandis

OK, don't get too excited.  These green drake nymphs (drunella grandis) are not emerging yet, but they are all over the shallow slowish water very close to the banks.  I took a walk over to the Big Wood in Hailey this afternoon and discovered the green drake nymphs while looking for the perfect skipping rock.  There really were  a lot of bugs!  These green drake nymphs are clingers which means they are great at attaching themselves to something underwater, usually a rock or submerged branch, but when they become dislodged they are carried by the current and stay suspended for sometime before re-attaching themselves to another hold.  What this means is they are very easy targets for trout once they become dislodged.

On another note, the Big Wood is very low and very clear for this time of year.  As of this afternoon the river was flowing at approx. 380 cfs and the median for this time of year is over 1,000 cfs.  Our low elevation snow has already melted and it has been cooler than average.  We will still see a substantial bump in the river once it FINALLY gets warm.  Openning day fishing on the Big Wood this year is a real possibility.

Abby Grosvenor's art

I just took some shots of Abby Grosvenor's new art for her gallery card.  Her work will be up at Gilman Contemporary in Ketchum starting Friday May 28th.  It's great stuff and will certainly be worth a look.  Here's a link to the Gilman Contemporary site:  http://www.gilmancontemporary.com/  Also, here's a quick look at a few of Abby's new pieces:

New Web site!!!

Well..., it's finally up and running.  This blog should be far more user friendly than my past blog and I hope it becomes useful in many ways.  I am using squarespace as my web publisher and they have some pretty cool features including an application for the iphone that allows me to manage much of this site remotely, which means I can be on the river or a shoot somewhere and speak to the conditions, hatches or lack therof, wind, or whatever it is I feel like rambling on about that is relevant enough to photography and or fly fishing.  I can also update this blog from my iphone.  That's just one of the cool features.  Another feature is, you can subscribe to this blog.  That's right, just go to the link on the right hand side of this page to do so.

I also plan on using this blog as a fishing report for the Sun Valley, ID area and other places I guide including Yellowstone.  It will be updated regularly...

More to come!