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

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

Lateral view of a Psychodidae True Fly Larva from Mystery Creek #308 in Washington
This wild-looking little thing completely puzzled me. At first I was thinking beetle or month larva, until I got a look at the pictures on the computer screen. I made a couple of incorrect guesses before entomologist Greg Courtney pointed me in the right direction with Psychodidae. He suggested a possible genus of Thornburghiella, but could not rule out some other members of the tribe Pericomini.
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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Smallstream
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Smallstream on Dec 17, 2007December 17th, 2007, 5:16 am EST
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JAD on Dec 17, 2007December 17th, 2007, 5:41 am EST
Sorry you know I had to do it. ( a tributary of the River Itchen.

Sounds like they were Itchen to get away. :)

One time when Young Womens Creek was drying (up in the 80ies).I was walking out from fishing and in the middle of the woods their were Brook Trout swimming in a underground spring.They were at least a hundred yards from the water edge. Thats when I figured out how those fish survived when the water dried up. Fish can do some strange things to survive.

JaD

They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax.
Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times,
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Martinlf on Dec 18, 2007December 18th, 2007, 2:41 am EST
Way cool photo in the article.
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"

--Fred Chappell

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