Brought home a few buzzers from Menteith on Saturday, where they were hatching in biblical numbers. Was going to try using them to do a macro shot. But, same old problem - even by Monday night, open the box and they just fly out! Chill them at 4C, and they quieten down, but as soon as you bring them out they warm up and take off again. I tried a couple in the freezer, but it is a fine line between the same problem as 4C and them ending up like Jack Nicholson at the end of The Shining
So, with one plucky survivor left, I tried something else. How about photographing the fly sitting on the surface of the water... from underneath it?
First the control:
A size 14 Adams hopper (slightly used)...
Worked not too bad. Next the buzzer. However, he wasn't too happy being given a bath and kept trying to climb out. So, I kept poking him back in. Then he kept drifting out of the viewfinder, and I had to chase him about. It was not easy. All the messing about ended up with the buzzer getting well frottered and the surface film ending up in a right old mess. I can only guess most of that came off my skin... or the buzzer... or the 6 oz lead weight being used to balance the whole assembly
Hairy legs, or what? Hairy @rse too! It maybe has potential. Might be worth experimenting with how different leader materials look either stuck in the surface film or submerged. Of course, it is all very much dependent on how well the light set-up mimics reality. Not sure a desk lamp shining into a 1 cm deep Petri dish of water quite captures the authenticity of a trout stream
I'll get me coat...
Col
Trout's eye view of a fly... sort of
Danny
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