Pre-Season Poppers (bass flies)

Pre-Season Poppers

Before the water fully warms, there’s a moment of anticipation.

The flies are ready.
The season is close.
And everything feels just slightly in motion.

This small watercolor explores that feeling through a cluster of poppers—overlapping, shifting, almost suspended in water. The lines tangle and cross like grasses or current, while the forms of the flies emerge and recede, not fixed, but alive.

It’s not a literal view.
It’s the sense of looking—of scanning—before the first cast of the season.

A quiet study of preparation, movement, and the promise of what’s about to begin.