The Yakima's first wave of real adult entertainment is just around the corner. And, his excellency - Mr. Skwala was kind enough to pose for Chum reader Jim Olsen.
We gave her a go on Sunday and got our nymph on. The prize to our surprise was a Winston Vapor 590 - 6x shuffle down the Yakima - hot in pursuit of some rare Yak Steel (one of 200 or so lucky enough to make it back to our backyard blue ribbon trout stream).
Prints are approximately six times the size of the actual insect. LINK
The Bronx Bombers were done in by a large midge hatch last night in Cleveland.
Red Sox nation shouts,"we got your curse right here!" LINK
Via: Gizmodo LINK
From David James Duncan's, "Not Rocking the Boats", a short story that appeared in River Teeth.
What I have against you, Mister River Jim Burnett's Riverfuckin Wetdreams, is that this time next year you'll be hypin' some new IBM microelectronic Pteronarcys or Acroneuria you operate with a toggle switch on the butt of some nine-thousand-dollar Jedi Jim Zukonite Fly Rod that sends electrolytic impulses down the line to the fly, causin' it to go through every life-stage of the bonafide insect, includin' screwin' an' dyin'!
A video follow up to this post we did back in February.
Providing bits of precious and semi-precious material for Caddis to construct jewelry is actually not all that unique. Caddisfly case jewelry is available at the Classic Fly Fisherman and Wildscape.
11 years, 8 cameras, 3 countries, countless breaths underwater. LINK
When you cast big ole dries and you won't switch up flies, that's amore!
Submitted by Jim Olsen, Chum smoocher and one hell of a photographer.
Via: Bugs for Thugs LINK
This Caddis trapped in amber dates back to the Eocene Epoch making it somewhere between 33 and 54 million years old. LINK
VIA USGS LINK
The top and bottom larva are Chironomids, the larva in the center is Chaoborus, the 'phantom midge'. LINK
Kudos to Marshall at Midcurrent for unearthing this piece on "going against the grain". LINK
French artist Hubert Duprat has developed a method of getting Caddis larvae to use bits of gold, pearls and saphires to construct their protective cases. LINK
On his site Nova Scotia Fly Fishing, Pat Donoghue tells you everything you need to know about setting up your very own home entomology lab. LINK
...for those that really want to geek out on bugs. Via Iowa State Entomology LINK
If you can get official about Mayflies. LINK
Kittanning Hose Co. 1 Fire Chief Gene Stephens said Monday night, "We shut the bridge down before we had any accidents. Earlier this month, we had three motorcyclists go down as a result of the mayflies." LINK
Mayfly Central is a place, a program, and an information resource. It is located in the Department of Entomology at Purdue University, where it is associated with the Laboratory of Aquatic Entomology. LINK
Thigh-deep in the swift water, he whips his shimmering line in slow graceful curves. His lure (a finely tied bit of deer hair, filament and hook) skips and dances on the surface of the water -- both lure and motion intended to mimic the very insects that dance in the sunlight. VIA The Pilot LINK
This year, the Great River Shakespeare Festival’s season opener coincided with a mayfly hatch. LINK
A BIG mayfly hatch!
The weather service says some roads along the river and around La
Crosse were covered with bugs, which piled into drifts in some places. LINK
It's rare but not unusual for mayfly hatches to appear on radar.
July of 2003. LINK
A sequence from July of 2001. LINK
It's that Shaquille O'Neal of mayflies, that Andre the Giant of
Ephemerids, that behemoth of bugs, the Hexagenia limbata, which is
starting to make its annual appearance on streams. LINK
The project will be a CG-animated children's movie focusing on the short-lived insects, some of whom live only for a day. LINK
Yesterday's report, what worked last season and the local killer fly. All great pieces of information, but you need one more piece to complete the picture: knowledge of insects active in the water right then, right there. LINK
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