Posted on July 24 2004
John Merwin describes fishing size 26 dry flies during the remarkable trico hatches of late summer as “fly fishing at its perverse best.” This piece in Field & Stream describes the habits of Tricorythodes mayflies and how to contend with the challenges they present: “The insects are very small–generally from 3 to 7 millimeters long–but so abundant in some areas that their morning mating swarms can look like a dense, smoky haze over the water.”