Tag: mayfly

Being a teenager isn’t easy, even for those who have experienced what one would think of as a normal childhood. Unfortunately, many teenager’s experiences aren’t exactly what one would consider normal. Too often, the hand that some young people have been dealt with is from a deck that is heavily stacked against them. At age 15, Kayla Lockhart got...

I'M A BIG BELIEVER in fishing few flies many ways, rather than stuffing fly boxes with hundreds of variations. That’s partly because I’m cheap, and also disorganized. But I honestly think that working the same bug different ways, sometimes even performing streamside surgery with scissors to change its profile or whipping out the Sharpie pen to make it...

THE 1970s and early 1980s ushered in a new era of information and angling literature about insect hatches and imitative fly patterns. As a teenager in southern Idaho, trying to figure out how to fool the rainbows of Silver Creek, Selective Trout became my bible for several summers. I collected and studied the classic bug books that followed: Hatches...

This clip is from Ralph and Lisa Cutter's extraordinary "Bugs of the Underworld" and features the chapter on mayflies. The Cutters' documentary work has appeared on National Geographic, PBS, BBC, TROUT, and at the California Academy of Sciences. This DVD showcases their extraordinary skill in underwater cinematography, and also features stoneflies...