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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Nymphs of this species were fairly common in late-winter kick net samples from the upper Yakima River. Although I could not find a key to species of Zapada nymphs, a revision of the Nemouridae family by Baumann (1975) includes the following helpful sentence: "2 cervical gills on each side of midline, 1 arising inside and 1 outside of lateral cervical sclerites, usually single and elongate, sometimes constricted but with 3 or 4 branches arising beyond gill base in Zapada cinctipes." This specimen clearly has the branches and is within the range of that species.
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Troutnabout
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Troutnabout on Dec 1, 2007December 1st, 2007, 12:53 pm EST
My father in law talks of a fly he used in the 1960's in Colorado called the colorado golden. Does anyone know what this is?
Flybinder on Dec 2, 2007December 2nd, 2007, 9:03 am EST
TnAbout;
There's a very popular fly, that's been around for a while, called "The Golden Stone"!? It's a nymph, and quite a good one.
Does your father in-law mention if his fly is a wet, dry,nymph, anything other than just the name?
Unfortunately, almost every fishing area, with any sort of popularity seems to always spawn it's own "secret weapon fly"! Or, "name, specific to that region". Case in point, is the "St.Joe Special", a very popular fly for the North Idaho Panhandle region, where the St.Joe river is located.
However, the poor St.Joe Special, is also tied in about 50 different ways, with 50 different, fly fishermen saying; "Why, their version is the RIGHT version and WHY it works the best"!!
"The Truckee River Special",very popular for fishing the Truckee River in and around, Reno Nevada, is another example of the exact same problem......... 50 fly fishermen, mean 50, different versions of it available.
If your father in-law can give you any more information it would sure help in your search!
Good luck!
Paul
There's a very popular fly, that's been around for a while, called "The Golden Stone"!? It's a nymph, and quite a good one.
Does your father in-law mention if his fly is a wet, dry,nymph, anything other than just the name?
Unfortunately, almost every fishing area, with any sort of popularity seems to always spawn it's own "secret weapon fly"! Or, "name, specific to that region". Case in point, is the "St.Joe Special", a very popular fly for the North Idaho Panhandle region, where the St.Joe river is located.
However, the poor St.Joe Special, is also tied in about 50 different ways, with 50 different, fly fishermen saying; "Why, their version is the RIGHT version and WHY it works the best"!!
"The Truckee River Special",very popular for fishing the Truckee River in and around, Reno Nevada, is another example of the exact same problem......... 50 fly fishermen, mean 50, different versions of it available.
If your father in-law can give you any more information it would sure help in your search!
Good luck!
Paul
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Troutnabout
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Troutnabout on Dec 3, 2007December 3rd, 2007, 12:32 am EST
Flybinder Thanks` for your reply. I'll try to get more info.I'm not sure if the word golden refers to a stonefly or the town of Golden Colorado.
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