Golden Stone Fly

Unless its an obvious hatch, or just a lot of obvious bugs cruising around I usually just have a seat and retie a fly or tippet and almost always the bugs reveal themselves. I will find them climbing on my legs, or just flying down low where I wasn’t noticing them, or I see them back lit against a dark background that I couldn’t see while standing. They appear in lots of different ways but they seem to pop out of the woodwork if you get into their zone and try some different viewpoints.

Even big insects like this Golden Stone often go unnoticed unless you look hard for them. They aren’t always flying. This Stone fly was about as interested in flying as I was and I would not have noticed him if I had not stopped and he happened to find his way onto my leg.