blue-wing

It was originally designed for a specific application-to imitate the nymphs of blue-wing olives, a widely distributed group of mayfly species.

Krystal Flash Baetis 1999

It may be the subtly alluring sparkle of the Krystal Flash body, or it may be that blue-wing olive nymphs are so abundant that they figure into the trout's menu most of the time.

Krystal Flash Baetis 1999

They are loaded with fat (14 - to 20-inch) brown, rainbow, and cutthroat trout that feed all day on lavish hatches of midges and pale morning dun, sulfur, and blue-wing olive mayflies.

PARADISE VALLEY: Trout Among Magnificence 1999

I had killed a small blue-wing duck that was feeding in my spring, and had roasted it nicely on the brow of the hill, about twenty steps east of my house.

Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer Cecil B. Hartley

A quaint, squeaking call attracted my attention one day, and I found that it proceeded from the throat of a young blue-wing perched in the bushes, for presently the mamma came and thrust a morsel into the open mouth of the bantling.

Our Bird Comrades 1896

Chillon himself was not above the sentiment of their "very early days"; he stopped to ask if she had been that lustrous blue-wing, a rarer species, prized by youngsters, shoot through the chestnut trees: and they both paused for a moment, gazing into the fairyland of infancy, she seeing with her brother's eyes, this prince of the realm having escaped her.

The Amazing Marriage — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

Chillon himself was not above the sentiment of their "very early days"; he stopped to ask if she had been that lustrous blue-wing, a rarer species, prized by youngsters, shoot through the chestnut trees: and they both paused for a moment, gazing into the fairyland of infancy, she seeing with her brother's eyes, this prince of the realm having escaped her.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

Chillon himself was not above the sentiment of their "very early days"; he stopped to ask if she had been that lustrous blue-wing, a rarer species, prized by youngsters, shoot through the chestnut trees: and they both paused for a moment, gazing into the fairyland of infancy, she seeing with her brother's eyes, this prince of the realm having escaped her.

The Amazing Marriage — Complete George Meredith 1868

(PMD) and blue-wing olive (BWO) mayflies will also be seen in large numbers.

Aspen Times - Top Stories 2010

(PMD) and blue-wing olive (BWO) mayflies will also be seen in large numbers.

Aspen Times - Top Stories 2010