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The other thing to consider is the type of rise. In general: A gentle sip means the trout is eating dead mayflies or spinners. Head out but still gentle is adult mayflies. It also suggests they are holding just below the surface. Porpoising, (only the back breaks the water) suggest they are eating emergents caught in the film. A big splashy rise usually mean emergers or perhaps a caddis on the surface - something they need to chase a little. Breaking the surface completely ... who knows? I once had a big rainbow on the Esopus break water and take a streamer before it landed in the water. Here’s a more thorough look at rise forms - https://www.flyfisherman.com/editorial/understanding-trout-rise-forms/152245

The nymph is lower right, though you might want something a little smaller. Grasshoppers are cool but they don’t work here that well. More of a western thing. I would grab a few Caddis, some Adams, maybe a Royal Wolf. The later two don’t represent any particular insect, but just look buggy. They also float well which helps keep your nymph from dragging them down. For nymphs, keep it simple: pheasant tail, prince nymph, copper john. I’m sure the fly shop could put together the prefect package for you. If not, Sierra always has discounted flies Tom Rosenbauer in where to find fish: https://news.orvis.com/fly-fishing/tom-rosenbauer-find-trout-river

If fish are rising, most of your work is done. Come as close as you can to what’s flying around. The type of rise will tell you where in the water column and what stage of insect they’re eating. If there isn’t any surface action, you can try a dry dropper. Tie on an attractor dry fly then tie on 12”-18” of tippet and a nymph or wet fly. This can help determine what and where the fish are eating. You fish and wet and dry very differently. The goal with a dry is to avoid any drag on the fly. It must float naturally. But a traditional wet is swung down and across. Hold the fly downstream for a moment at the end of the swing and raise the tip slowly. This will mimic a nymph rising and can trigger a strike. In terms of where to cast, look for two things: a bubble line and structure. Trout wait for food to come to them, so they will sit in the current and wait. Typically this is under the bubble line. If there’s structure like a large rock, cast above the rock and let your fly float down each side in the current. Sometimes fish hold in front of the rock, but usually hanging out at edge of the current. They are rarely directly behind a rock in the swirling current. Hope that helps a little.

I just got off the phone with a dear friend in the city who is fighting the infection. She is terrified and alone, so I have little patience in debating a witless wonder like you. The fact that you can’t muster up a moment of sympathy for this five-year-old girl, her parents, or acknowledge the severity of the situation and (my point) that we not close to being free, but instead use it to attack people or their politics shows what a contemptible asshole you are. I’m not sure if you’ve always been this way or this is your response to the tragedy, but it may be time to reassess what you believe, what is of value, and what important. Good luck with that.

But the economy ... https://nypost.com/2020/04/20/5-year-old-daughter-of-detroit-first-responders-dies-of-coronavirus/ The 5-year-old daughter of two first responders has died in Michigan after a coronavirus infection left her likely brain-dead on a ventilator, her family says.

In retrospect, I think you’re right. I saw the black head and grey wings as he fluttered around my mudroom and assumed chickadee but the beak is the giveaway. I feel I’ve let down the Canadian scouting organization and once back in the city I’ll put on my old sash and have my wife cashier the bird watching badge. I’ll probably only be allowed to use the Tim Hortons drive-through now.

From that to this. So, you’re not actually going to anything other than post about it on a forum? That’ll show them. You should march. You’ll be in great company.

I find a scale of 1 - 10 pretty limiting. I think, like most people, I'm generally somewhere in the middle and slides to the sides issue to issue.

So you’ll be getting hundreds of like-minded souls together and marching arm-in-arm to Albany?

Here, I’m a flaming libtard. In NYC, I’m a curiosity to my friends but tolerable. To my Hollywood family, I’m a fire-breathing Trump loving, white supremacist Nazi. Really, I just want to be a 5’5” tapdancing, singing, one-eyed black Jew married to a Swedish babe.

How dare you bring moderate reasoned science-based facts to this discussion AND throw a little shade at the chosen one.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/member-of-tony-spells-life-tabernacle-church-in-baton-rouge-dies-from-coronavirus-another-member-in-icu Tony Spell, the pastor of Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, was issued a misdemeanor summons last month for repeatedly violating a state ban on large gatherings amid the coronavirus pandemic. Despite the charges, he has continued to hold services including an Easter Sunday gathering that he claimed 1,345 people attended. He previously claimed that his church was not at risk of being infected because coronavirus was “politically motivated.” Ahead of his Easter service, he told Reuters: “Satan and a virus will not stop us... God will shield us from all harm and sickness. We are not afraid.” However, a church usher, 78-year-old Harold Orillion, died in Baton Rouge’s Our Lady of the Lake Hospital on Wednesday. His cause of death was listed as “acute respiratory distress syndrome, 2nd pneumonia, 2nd COVID-19,” East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner William ‘Beau’ Clark said in a statement to The Daily Beast. Local lawyer Jeffrey Wittenbrink, who attended several church events during the pandemic and represented Life Tabernacle in its legal challenge to Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards’ religious gatherings ban, also confirmed he was on oxygen support in a hospital on Thursday after testing positive for coronavirus.

He may not be looking his best having gone through a head-on collision, emergency room admittance and doctor-ordered bedside rest, but I assure you he’s a chickadee. However if you’re that adamant about showing me up, here’s the contact info for the Canadian Scouting Commissioner. [email protected] I told him to expect your email.

Thread inspired me to pick up some local eggs. And since this is a bird thread. A chickadee smashed into our window and fell with his wings splayed onto the snow. Normally, that means broken neck and fox food. But not today. At this time in the world. I picked him up and gently folded his wings back in as his eyelids quietly fluttered. There was some life still in him. I wrapped him loosely in a scarf and placed him in a box in the mud room. Dark, warm, safe, said my Canadian Scout Handbook. And wait. 90 minutes later, the cat perked up to some movement in the mud room and I found the little guy out of the box and clinging to the ceiling. Picked him up and held him outside the door. He kindly took a moment for the picture then flew off to join his pals. I don’t know if bird rescue gets you into heaven but if the gates of heaven are guarded by Horus, at least they’ll hear my petition.

Was that intended as a response to the hotel post? Please say yes. What I find interesting is that every time you post a fact and are proved wrong, you ignore it and move onto the next right-wing talking point. How soon before you move onto the vaccine being the “mark of the beast?”

^ Solid post. Would read again.

They’re young, they’re strong, they’re together. Those are great odds.

The numbers in Denmark and Norway are much better. Curious to see how it works out.

Oh hi. Is this the place where we discuss Trump? Cool. Can we talk about Comet Pizza next?

I don’t think there a thrill with living on the edge. I think there’s an excitement to living in one of the world’s great cities. How nervous are you guys when you visit?

Talked to a Swedish friend today who is spending three days in Stockholm and four days on his island in the archipelago. He said that Swedes are the ultimate isolators - live alone, not overly demonstrative, independent elderly population. We’ll see if this works.

Wasn’t Cuomo doing a press briefing in Albany yesterday? The now famous briefing?

Let’s hope so.

Good news, First-light. I just heard an interview with an Italian doctor who said they’re seeing people in quarantine who still test positive after 30 days. So much for the 14 day benchmark.

I read a story this morning about two young doctors who use their phones to relay end of life decisions between the rapidly dying and their families. Much of it is bank account numbers, financial decisions etc. Then they say their last goodbye. The one doctor says she goes outside a few times a day to weep, then gets it together and goes back in to help more afflicted people. Similar story - https://www.huffpost.com/entry/doctor-tablets-covid-19-patients-goodbyes_l_5e988500c5b65eae70a0ec0e