To win the expenses paid trip to the Seychelles, the fly has to be greater than or equal to
size #10 and less than or equal to size #18. And it has to embody the most creative combination
of stark realism with fast-and-easy-to-tie.
I'll try to get out to the river again this weekend, with drift-net and camera in hand.
Trouble is it's August, and most of this year's crop of rock-clinging mayflies have already
hatched. Only the Baetis are yet to appear and they aren't clingers. Well, we do get those big
white siphlonuris something-or-others in late September too. But they're low-down-on-the-river
silt burrowers, with long cylindrical bodies. The flat rock-clinger mayflies are all long gone.
The baby rock-clinger nymphs have by now appeared, I think, from their semi-microscopic eggs.
But they won't be big enough to really look at before late this fall.
That's how it works.