Entries by Jon Ray

New Bug 2 Tails

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So from time to time you see a bug on the water, and at certain time of year it stands out. It separates it’s self from every other bug on the water.  When this happens it must be funny to be the birds in the trees, watching me chase after the bug in my Clackacraft. […]

Gray Drake

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A gray drake on it’s last leg.  With the next couple days coming back to normal, look in the evening sky for this great bug.  Also if you havn’t already picked up your gray drake spinners pick up a hand full of Ed McCoy’s Gray Drake Spinner.

Jaws

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Jaws of a Pike.  Had a chance to fun fish for pike on an inland lake, captured this picture with a GoPro3 and took a screen shot of the video.  Hard to see but the fly is totally sucked into the jaws of this Alpha predator.

13 or 15 chestnut lamprey lost count

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I have never seen this before, a couple weeks ago I set my record , and today I broke the record for most lamprey on a fish, with what I thought was 15 lamprey but only see 13 in the picture.  We will say 13 as the official mark.

Baltimore Oriole

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One of favorite birds of the early summer has soon up, the Baltimore Oriole.  This means as I talked before in a previous blog  that sulphurs are going to hatch soon.  Mother nature has certain relationships and this over the years has proven true.  But until I see my first sulphur (guessing this weekend) I’ll just […]

Goshawk Video

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If you follow the site you know I enjoy taking pictures of birds of prey, this Goshawk video is amazing.  Imagine this bird chasing it’s prey down through the woods, thank goodness this bird has not grown any larger to chase down humans.