The White Fly . . .
The White Fly
(imitates the mayfly, genus Ephoron)
The poet, the poetic, part of me has always enjoyed finding a word with my name within it, and being born in August, all things keen to the eighth month of the calendar year attract me.
The insect known as the White Fly to fly fishers, the mayfly of the genus Ephoron, a prime hatch of August, is then right there on my short summer favorites list.
White Fly kebari for tenkara can be tied in a most simple manner. My recipe:
Hook: size 10-16, dry fly
Body: 6/0 thread, white
Hackle: Deer belly hair, white
The body is sparse, light, and deer belly hair adds bouyancy. Fish the fly on an August evening and catch brown trout, or smallmouth bass, or panfish, even channel catfish will rise to this fly on select clear and cobbled rivers in the American northeast.
The remainder of the time I stay true to the crayfish, and other creatures of the subaqueous realm, with some variant of my Green Guarantee.
The Green Guarantee
(NYC 08 2018)
— rPs 08 29 2018
Postscript: poetic disclosure; my first stand-alone collection – museum of buildings: poems – was first published twenty (20!) years ago this month . . .
museum of buildings: poems
(first edition, August 1998)
