… models - at least that is my best guess considering what is hatching around here these days.
John
Looks like a Slate Drake.
Ralph -
I wondering if that is a matter of semantics or local terminology ??
A couple points be considered - the local fishing reports refer to gray drakes, Jim Scholmeyer in his “Hatch Guide For Western Streams” does not even discuss “slate drakes”, and least important, I’m not familiar with the name “slate drake” for this neck of the woods.
Whatever it is ( a gray drake out here and a slate drake in your area ?? ), the pix should still provide a model for size, proportion, some level of detail, and color.
John
Ralph -
I’m wondering if that is a matter of semantics or local terminology ??
A couple points to be considered - the local fishing reports refer to gray drakes, Jim Scholmeyer in his “Hatch Guide For Western Streams” does not even discuss “slate drakes”, and least important, I’m not familiar with the name “slate drake” for this neck of the woods.
Whatever it is ( a gray drake out here and a slate drake in your area ?? ), the pix should still provide a model for size, proportion, some level of detail, and color.
John
John,
A Mahogany Dun is often referred one-and-the-same out here. Do you have mahoganys out there?
Definitely, but later in the season. Without checking some references, my recollection is that the mahoganies are a late summer fly around here.
Okay, I got Scholmeyer out again. He does refer to both spring and fall emergences for the mahoganies depending on the species in the genus, but his pix of a mahogany dun ( and the ones I have seen locally ) are distinctly different than those posted above.
John
P.S. My best mahogany dun pattern is a loop wing dun, similar to your LTD’s.
What about a March Brown?
John,
Likewise, the LTD is my best Slate pattern.
We have 2 hatches in the East as well, the larger of the 2 I have found to be in the Spring. The female duns are often referred to as the Mahogany Dun and the White-gloved Howdy also.
Byron,
I wondered about that as well, but that would be a huge March Brown. Ours out here are a bit lighter in shade…but they do vary water-to-water.
Ralph
Looks more like a March Brown then a Slate Drake.
Allan
Can’t answer to the looks of the local MB’s? For out here, they are much lighter in color.
I saw the most prolific hatch of March Browns I have ever seen about ten days ago. Follow the link and note the last paragraph.
http://www.flyanglersonline.com/bb/showthread.php?45886-Yesterday-s-Spots
Those March Browns were much lighter and much more a brown tone than the “gray drakes” shown above. And somewhat smaller.
Also, Scholmeyer’s pix of a March Brown are quite different than these “gray drakes” and quite similar to the March Browns I saw last week.
John
… I could get using some pretty rudimentary software.
Several things always strike me when I look very closely at mayfly duns - the segmentation, how “stark” the body profile is, and how slim the body is even through the thorax area. The thorax is typically much more pronounced than the abdomen, but in a vertical way, not width.
This drake would probably be well represented by a “Purple Haze” tied very slim with a flex floss type material for the body, based on my thought that the success of the Purple Haze is a result of the “dark and stark” profile rather than the color. ( The color rendition in this enlargement is much lighter than the real thing. )
John
do you need me to come out there!!??
huh ???