Here is this week’s images from the water. Last week I wrote it might have been my last “images” post for a while because of the weather. But I did make it out a couple of days. I hope you enjoy this week’s portfolio. I’ll begin with this PMD. I love the reflection of long…
Here is this week’s images from the water. With the weather changing, it might be the last one for a while. As I write this post on Wednesday morning, I’m looking out at the snow falling. I hope you enjoy this week’s portfolio. These large Rainbows are out there, but not on my line! It…
I hope you saw this week’s post about fall PMDs. I shared several images of insects I found in an eddy. I’ll begin this week’s images from the water post with a few more. I hope you enjoy this week’s portfolio. We’re seeing larger than normal kokanee from Lake Billy Chinook. Large trout are staging…
Here are this week’s images from the water. While waiting for fish to rise, I have plenty of time to look around and enjoy the fall colors on my home waters, the Metolius River. I hope you enjoy this week’s portfolio. Fall colors A fly fisher and his dog. Capturing the sunlight breaking over trees….
Here is this week’s images from the road. A few more pics from our recent fall fly fishing road trip. The image above is an Owyhee Rainbow Trout. A Brownie eager to take a dry fly on the Owyhee River. A Mahogany mayfly. A bison in Yellowstone National Park. The same bison with a tourist…
Here are images from Leslie Gulch and the Owyhee Basin, the first stop on our fall fly fishing road trip. The image above is the road to Leslie Gulch, named for Hiram Leslie Silver City who was killed by lightning in 1882 here. The Owyhee River flows into the Snake River and is the largest…
Here are this week’s images from the water. These are all from the Metolius in the last couple of weeks. The image of these mating grasshoppers was created with a technique called “focus stacking”. I took six pictures and merged them together, taking the “in focus” portions of each to create the final image. The…
Here are this week’s images from the water. I’ll begin with this Drunella flavilinea found on the river this week. And a close-up… We’re still in what I consider the transitional time because not a lot of fish are rising to various insects floating downstream. Here are a few we were lucky to land. These colors…
Here are this week’s images from the water. These images are from Hebgen Lake as we travelled to Yellowstone National Park to fish the Yellowstone River. We hoped to find a few Callibaetis mayflies, and found these insects along the water’s edge. These are Trico mayfly spinners. The colorful translucence from their wings are impressive….
Here are this week’s images from the water. After fly fishing the Yellowstone River, we travelled through the northwest corner of Yellowstone National Park, through Cooke City and Beartooth Pass to Red Lodge, MT. Sunrise on Beartooth Pass at 10,933 feet. Bison along the lower Lamar River in Yellowstone National Park. Sunrise – Beartooth Pass…
