Bug Eyed

Caught on a #18 thorax cdc fly knotted to an 18’ leader, this brown trout posed for a moment with a New Zealand Sulphur dun, or an Ameletopsis perscitus. This image not only captures the brilliant sulphur yellow of the mayfly on her natural predator, but the flowing water over the trout’s head and its gleaming skin produce the visceral memory of river and trout leaving an angler’s wet hands.