Salmonflies
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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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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My father taught me and my brother to fly fish back when we was kids. It sparked my interest again when I was in my early twenties and since then I haven't been able to stop.
The city where I live has a decent salmon river and is by the sea so I mostly fish for salmon and sea trout even though I find brown trout fishing the most fun.
trout flies and salmon flies.
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The city where I live has a decent salmon river and is by the sea so I mostly fish for salmon and sea trout even though I find brown trout fishing the most fun.
trout flies and salmon flies.
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Salmon and sea trout fisher that sometimes get the chance to fish brown trout. Occasionally write about trout fishing.
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