In the prior blog post I commented on Bill Long's realistic dragonfly nymph. I have now uploaded to fishingwithflies.com Bill's story of this big bad boy. Included are tying instructions and tips, fishing tips, and a few pictures including a top view and side view.
The story is indexed at the top of the following page. It is labeled as story #89:
http://www.fishingwithflies.com/FliesWithaStory.html
Showing posts with label dragonfly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dragonfly. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Monday, February 18, 2013
Bill Long's Realistic Dragonfly Nymph
A while back (actually, a very long while back) my friend Bill Long from Pennsylvania sent me a sample of a very realistic dragonfly nymph that he has fun tying and fishing.
I've drafted a page for the "Flies With a Story" section of my Web site and have sent it to Bill to check for any errors or revisions to the recipe. It will include several photos of the sample he sent me, and some tying and fishing tips.
When the page is ready for the Web site I will post a follow up blog to this one, with the link. In the meantime, below is a single image to give a sense for the size of this beauty. The nymph is a bit left of the wooden ruler because I pressed the hook point into the end of the ruler, but you can see that it is very close to 2" in length.
I've drafted a page for the "Flies With a Story" section of my Web site and have sent it to Bill to check for any errors or revisions to the recipe. It will include several photos of the sample he sent me, and some tying and fishing tips.
When the page is ready for the Web site I will post a follow up blog to this one, with the link. In the meantime, below is a single image to give a sense for the size of this beauty. The nymph is a bit left of the wooden ruler because I pressed the hook point into the end of the ruler, but you can see that it is very close to 2" in length.
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Dragonflies as macro subjects
Perhaps this is a bit off-topic as the dragonflies here were not used as fish-bait; nor were they used as inspiration for some new fly pattern. But, during the last couple of summers I have been having fun taking macro shots of dragonflies and butterflies. Dragonflies are of course desired food for fish. When fishing the farm ponds around my home in the summer, the bass often leap out of the water in hopes of catching a passing dragonfly or perhaps one landing on a lily pad.
I once saw the front half of a dragonfly buzzing on the surface. I am sure a bass was somewhere nearby enjoying the back half. And of course, because dragonflies are aquatic insects, fish enjoy the big ugly nymphs that crawl along the rocks underwater and migrate to the waters edge to emerge as dragonflies.
As reported in a blog post on July 3, 2009, I had the thrill of photographing the half hour process of a dragonfly emerging from its nymphal body. If you didn't see the post, the sequence is on my photos Web site here:
I once saw the front half of a dragonfly buzzing on the surface. I am sure a bass was somewhere nearby enjoying the back half. And of course, because dragonflies are aquatic insects, fish enjoy the big ugly nymphs that crawl along the rocks underwater and migrate to the waters edge to emerge as dragonflies.
As reported in a blog post on July 3, 2009, I had the thrill of photographing the half hour process of a dragonfly emerging from its nymphal body. If you didn't see the post, the sequence is on my photos Web site here:
The two closeup images I am posting here today were actually taken in my back yard during the summer. They recently scored well in monthly competitions in my local photo club. Fortunately, dragonflies are relatively easy to photograph. They stay motionless for long periods, and if you accidentally scare them off, they will often return to the same perch within seconds.
Friday, July 3, 2009
I have added Photo Galleries
Other than this blog (which is hosted free by google blogspot), fishingwithflies.com uses Frontpage 2003 for software. All changes are made on my computer and stored on my hard drive, then uploaded to Godaddy which serves as my Web site "host".
Frontpage 2003 is very old and cumbersome and even uploading photos is a pain. So, I have decided to sometimes upload pictures instead to my photo site, http://www.peterfraileyphoto.com/.
Within this site I have set up a seperate folder on the "All Galleries" page, appropriately called "Photo Galleries for fishingwithflies.com".
My first entry is a 15 image sequence of an emerging dragonfly. I took these during a 30 minute period while fishing the Millers River, earlier this season.
You can get there either by going to the gallery home page and finding the first folder of galleries here:
http://www.peterfraileyphoto.com/emergingdragonfly.
To whet your appetite here is the first of the 15 images:
Frontpage 2003 is very old and cumbersome and even uploading photos is a pain. So, I have decided to sometimes upload pictures instead to my photo site, http://www.peterfraileyphoto.com/.
Within this site I have set up a seperate folder on the "All Galleries" page, appropriately called "Photo Galleries for fishingwithflies.com".
My first entry is a 15 image sequence of an emerging dragonfly. I took these during a 30 minute period while fishing the Millers River, earlier this season.
You can get there either by going to the gallery home page and finding the first folder of galleries here:
http://www.peterfraileyphoto.com/emergingdragonfly.
To whet your appetite here is the first of the 15 images:
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