Dick Smith's Live Bait (In Delafield!)
Dragonflies! Also fun to watch!
I’m looking forward to the Dragonflies and the Brown Bats feasting on them in the coming evenings. I think the Barn Swallows eat them, too? They always follow me around when I’m mowing and kicking up bugs.
We don’t have any standing water anywhere near the house. Beau is a FANATIC about that. I’m pretty sure they’re using puddles, or that there’s so many of them that they’re all the way up here from the Pecatonica River. My rain barrel is emptied on a regular basis and I float a few drops of oil on top of that, just in case.
We’ve never seen a hatch like this!
As a kid, my dad would catch hellgramites to use as bass bait - said they were ‘the best’.