I FIND YOUR DRY FLY FISHING GEAR

3 1 R I F I N D Y O U R D R Y F LY F I S H I N G G E A R J O A N S W I F T Dusty jars lids that say Bernarden Mason Skippy’s Creamy Peanut Butter Kerr’s Self-Sealing labeled raptor, bird fur English hare’s ear guard hairs. A whole jar bulging with sky as if a flock of lazuli buntings were trapped in there. A jar of rain: saddle hackles, bucktail a deer can be so many di√erent shades of baby hair honey and roan, brown horse hair, cream coyote, grizzle at the bottom wrapped in something like a turkey neck. The magnifier poises its crane over slender colors: Dry Spruce Fly, Pale Watery Dun, Black Midge 3 2 Y so light over the pale green ripples of the river. Tape curls on a jar for peach preserves, Primaries. Smucker’s jam jar: duck quill, ring-necked pheasant tail. Below, a drawer full of needle-nose pliers slender grasp of neoprene thread tying everything together before you let each one go: Light Variant Adams Irresistable Bird’s Stone Fly ...