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.

A beautiful braided reach of the Sag River, with the Philip Smith Mountains in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) in the background.

From the Sagavanirktok River in Alaska

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Lateral view of a Clostoeca disjuncta (Limnephilidae) (Northern Caddisfly) Caddisfly Larva from the Yakima River in Washington

This one was surprisingly straightforward to identify. The lack of a sclerite at the base of the lateral hump narrows the field quite a bit, and the other options followed fairly obvious characteristics to Clostoeca, which only has one species, Clostoeca disjuncta.

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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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Nymphs vol1 & vol.2

Emerger
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Emerger on Nov 7, 2007November 7th, 2007, 2:58 am EST

Interested in your thoughts of these two Schwiebert's books. They seem to be pretty thorough with over 1400page combined. Thinking of getting both of these. I have many of the well known books on mayflies and caddisflies, but these two seem interesting.

Not interested so much in fly recipes, more on different species of nymphs and their lives. So are they worth the money, or is there better books on the subject in your opinion?

Troutnut

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Troutnut on Nov 7, 2007November 7th, 2007, 3:38 pm EST

Depends how much money you have, but the books are a masterpiece.

I posted my thoughts about them a couple months ago when they first came out here:

http://www.troutnut.com/topic/1017

Unfortunately I haven't had time to give them a really thorough look yet, but so far so good.

Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D.
Troutnut and salmonid ecologist

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Oregon Coast

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Flybinder on Nov 7, 2007November 7th, 2007, 6:17 pm EST

Emerger:
I own both books and find them MORE than worth, the money invested in them! If,of course, you love to read in depth, as these books really get into the "hows and why and why nots" of the subject matter.
If you're really into nymphing, or wanting to get, really into it, these two books are sort of like "Nymphing bilbes" as far as I'm concerned.
Just my, two and a third cents worth, anyway!

Flybinder:
"You should'a been here, NEXT week,the fishing's great!"

Emerger
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Emerger on Nov 7, 2007November 7th, 2007, 10:53 pm EST

Thank you for the replys. I'm new to the forum, been searching bugs from the site for a while. I think I'm going to visit here more often.

Money? Not alot, but I'm pretty sure that these two are woth it. Just wanted to make sure.

I've put them on order. Now I can't wait to get my hands on them.

Martinlf