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.

For how many years, I wonder, have these huge slabs of rock sheltered wild brook trout?

From Mystery Creek # 89 in New York

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Dorsal view of a Kogotus (Perlodidae) Stonefly Nymph from Mystery Creek #199 in Washington

This one pretty clearly keys to Kogotus, but it also looks fairly different from specimens I caught in the same creek about a month later in the year. With only one species of the genus known in Washington, I'm not sure about the answer to this ID.

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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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Coha

Cazin, Bosnia

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Coha on Jan 7, 2021January 7th, 2021, 5:19 am EST

The RS2 or Ray’s Semblance 2 is, in my humble opinion, one of the best fishing flies ever designed. If you haven’t fished with the RS 2, you don’t know what you have been missing.
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Roguerat on Jan 7, 2021January 7th, 2021, 6:38 am EST

I've tied and fished the RS2, or Rim's Semblance, and its a good fly...I'd agree IMHO that Rim Chung is a great tyer and his patterns are well worth trying.

Anyway, a late Happy New Year to all, and sadly I haven't been on the water since October? something due to lots of requests and patient clients in my woodworking side-job; I'm sort of retired but not so much lately.

Roguerat

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