Blue Wing Olives

An ode to Spring and Blue Wing Olives

"Several years ago, I set aside a certain category for those things that reach so deeply and so successfully into first principles, that one's trust in them is absolute. Among them are brown trout, the Grateful Dead, and Blue Wing Olives."

Ted Leeson, The Habits of Rivers, 1994

There is nothing more therapeutic to get one through the cabin fever months than to tie up some blue wings at the vice and daydream about watching a wild brown sip new duns on a cloudy afternoon.

Here's the latest batch that will find a home on the end of my tippet this spring.

Nymphs:

Hot spot

BH Flashback

Mercury Baetis

As close as it gets...

Emergers / Duns

BWO Emerger

BWO RS2

BWO CDC Dun

BWO Cripple

BWO SS Biot Emerger

BWO SS Sparkle Emerger

Spinners

Rusty Hackle Spinner

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