Artistic view of a Male Pteronarcys californica (Pteronarcyidae) (Giant Salmonfly) Stonefly Adult from the Gallatin River in Montana

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Pteronarcys californica

The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.

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Onocosmoecus (Great Late-Summer Sedge) Caddisfly Larva Onocosmoecus (Great Late-Summer Sedge) Caddisfly Larva

Lateral view of a Onocosmoecus (Limnephilidae) (Great Late-Summer Sedge) Caddisfly Larva from the Yakima River in Washington

This specimen keys pretty easily to Onocosmoecus, and it closely resembles a specimen from Alaska which caddis expert Dave Ruiter recognized as this genus. As with that specimen, the only species in the genus documented in this area is Onocosmoecus unicolor, but Dave suggested for that specimen that there might be multiple not-yet-distinguished species under the unicolor umbrella and it would be best to stick with the genus-level ID. I'm doing the same for this one.

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27" brown trout, my largest ever. It was the sub-dominant fish in its pool. After this, I hooked the bigger one, but I couldn't land it.

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VaalShuffle
Johannesburg South Africa

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VaalShuffle on Apr 18, 2008April 18th, 2008, 9:37 pm EDT

Jason I am new to your site and noticed that the insect photgraphas in the streams etc are awesome. how do you do it? These pics are mind blowing you seem to get the perfect light all the time. Do you spend a lot of time carrying around camera equipment or what?

Troutnut

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Troutnut on Apr 19, 2008April 19th, 2008, 11:05 am EDT

I do spend lots of time carrying camera equipment around. But the real secret is to take lots of pictures and not put the bad ones on the website. :)

Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D.
Troutnut and salmonid ecologist

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Shawnny3 on Apr 19, 2008April 19th, 2008, 2:20 pm EDT

The digital age has spawned a lot of great photographers, hasn't it, Jason?

-Shawn

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Nateps
michigan

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Nateps on Apr 26, 2008April 26th, 2008, 11:48 am EDT

heres a pic of my last brown trout of the season 2007, not a great camera, but a great fish!!!

http://www.picable.com/Nature/Animals/Brown-Trout.113766

Nate

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Shawnny3 on Apr 26, 2008April 26th, 2008, 4:12 pm EDT

That fish is a beautiful monster, Nate. Nice going.

-Shawn

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