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Two nymphs

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From a 30 year old fly box. I don't know the fly names. These are both #18 itty bitties. Both flies have been fished with. Getting this close to flies this small--and all still in focus isn't easy. This is a 6 exposure focus stack. Focus stacking is tricky and difficult now. In another three or four years it will likely be a new point and click menu item for new cameras.

 

up-2019-12-06-14.44.55ZSDMap_Two-nymphs.

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This one is a 56 exposure focus stack--of a Terrible Troth--tied by Al Troth

 

Wow! 56 exposure stack!

 

Kimo

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A Bunyan Bug. Norman Means (aka Paul Bunyan, locally in Montana, not sure which town) made these. I think he died in the late 1940s so this is an old bug. This was the fly they used in A River Runs Through It, when whatshisname caught the big fish and went swimming for it.


This one a 46 exposure stack. My focusing rail is set to 1mm increments and this translated to 46. I probably could have set it to 2mm increments, and then it would have been 23 exposures. I was lazy.


up-2019-12-07-11.21.03ZSDMap_Bunyan-bug.


Cell phones do a surprisingly good job, if you hold them close and steady. But this is a bit beyond what a phone can do. A regular dslr with a macro lens would only have about 1/10th this length in focus.

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Does anybody know what fly this is? I'm not good with classic dry fly names.

The one in front is unused. The one behind has the barb bent down with a bit of something organic dried onto the hook. And the wings are a bit ragged, as if they were once chewed.


up-2019-12-07-12.26.35ZSDMap_Two-dries.j

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Little Marryat?

Little Marryat, Geo. Marryat, 1876.

Visually one of my favorite patterns of this project

This looks closer than the one I tied.

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