The Ephemeroptera are insects with 2-3 long terminal cerci, which are paired appendages on the abdomen. Most of their life is spent developing and feeding as nymphs in aquatic habitats, representing a significant contribution to the food web and nutrient cycling. Trouts feed on Ephemeroptera in every stage except dun molting to spinner. In the spinner stage, before being spent, do err and touchdown on the water surface and get stuck, or being too close to the water surface bet eaten by a leaping trout. NOTE: A spinner is mouthless and unable to eat. It uses all its resources to mate before dying.
Hold on; you can succeed at catching before the casting gods grant you passage
by Henry Clement
Statistically, fly casting is so perplexing that schooled anglers of the bait and metal brotherhood who try to convert fail at a rate exceeding 80%, according to the ASA survey several years ago.
It was pointed out that women are twice as likely to succeed as men. It’s reported that they endeavor to listen to instructions.
I learned to become a good predator before a good caster
All it took was the patience of a mentor, Tad Potter of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a willingness on my part to listen, and buying about $5 worth of hardware store items. The latter is a thermometer and a piece of mosquito screening. I had some scrap 2 X 2s and a staple gun.
An elaborate version of a stream thermometer – about $20. A Fishpond image.
The water temperature, both freshwater (coldwater) and saltwater plays a game-changing role in how bugs and baits, and the pescados that prey on them, go about their business of fornicating and eating—two of their three favorite things—evacuating processed nutrition the other. So, knowing vital temperature parameters opens a window.
Assessing the situation calls for patience
1. Knowing what is predominantly available as a food source in a stream at specific water temperatures and seasons could catch you a trout. Still, if you take one more measurement, you probably will catch a trout.
2. Knowing the makeup of aquatic life in the water is another piece of the “cerebral” puzzle. There is only one way to ensure the aquatic life composition in that freshwater body of “coldwater” where you intend to fly fish.
3. That mosquito screen you bought and built into a seine is your ticket to success. The seine is a square, small box held together by those 2 X 2s. Stick it in the water on top of your wading boots and shuffle forward. What you kick up and trap in the seine is what’s for dinner – voilà! Now, as they say, match the hatch
4. There is not always the coincidence of the stream you just fished having the same variables in a stream only a mile away.
5. Bug hatches could be timed differently or just be different altogether, and so on. The water CFM could have changed, the temperature separate, and the aquatic life lopsided one way or just different.
How to make a seine net, Jeff Allen. Click on the image to visit Allen’s website.
Recommendation: A good way to come up tight
Get up close and personal with a local fly shop. Then, through them, hire a guide for these reasons:
They’ll school you in fly casting, aquatic life, where the fish hold, choose the flies you need, teach you about knots, stream conservation, how to fight a fish, how to release a fish, and most importantly, how to fly fish.
Yes, book them again. It’s the best and fastest road to a degree in “flyfishology.”
Featured Image by Andrew Derr —–
