"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
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"snakefiddler" wrote

it was rather entertaining, with the mayflies dancing, diving, and
rising,
being the most beautiful, and the most entertaining of the three insect
types. they looked like fairies dancing around in the air and on the
water.

well said, jen; but you might have been describing caddis instead of
mayflies.

hi uncle wayno-

i posted (below) a web-site with a picture of the *entertainers* that i said
looked like fairies. see what ya think. let me know if you know of a good
web-site for images of caddis. i was looking for one earlier, but didn't
find much.

my experience has been that the latter just pop out of the water
and rise gracefully, on a rather static angle.

hatches are so rare for us

so are you saying that it probably wasn't a hatch- just a lot of flies comin
out all at once? - and have you ever seen or heard about hatches happening
in "multiples" like that?

that i usually stop fishing, find a comfortable
rock, and just watch for a while.

yeah, that did seem like the appropriate thing to do. i was just kind of
awestruck, as i have never seen anything like that before.

the fish don't seem to become any more
active, anyway.

i didn't see a difference, but like i said, all the activity was taking
place around where i was standing, and i wouldn't have expected the fish to
start jumping out of the water around my legs, although *that* would have
been cool.



yfitm-
jen

yfitp
wayno



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