Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Molting mayflies from dun to spinner.

Got home from work today, and I found this fellow resting to molt on the screen of my upstairs window. I live pretty close to the Delaware river, and there are tons of different mayflies in that big water. All season long I can find mayflies on my house, resting and molting. Its just a matter of looking.



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Then the molt.

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Then spinners underside. A trouts view.

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The hook is standard shank #12 dry fly hook. This baby is easily an 8.

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A newley emergered spinner.

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