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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.

Dorsal view of a Ephemerella mucronata (Ephemerellidae) Mayfly Nymph from the Yakima River in Washington
This is an interesting one. Following the keys in Merritt R.W., Cummins, K.W., and Berg, M.B. (2019) and Jacobus et al. (2014), it keys clearly to Ephemerella. Jacobus et al provide a key to species, but some of the characteristics are tricky to interpret without illustrations. If I didn't make any mistakes, this one keys to Ephemerella mucronata, which has not previously been reported any closer to here than Montana and Alberta. The main character seems to fit well: "Abdominal terga with prominent, paired, subparallel, spiculate ridges." Several illustrations or descriptions of this holarctic species from the US and Europe seem to match, including the body length, tarsal claws and denticles, labial palp, and gill shapes. These sources include including Richard Allen's original description of this species in North America under the now-defunct name E. moffatae in Allen RK (1977) and the figures in this description of the species in Italy.
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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JAD
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JAD on Mar 24, 2008March 24th, 2008, 11:14 am EDT
Ok I must be stupid or something.Thanks for letting me off the hook Louis Ha Ha .

Today W Branch tried to explain to me how to post with Photobucket. Not a very good outcome.Im sure its not the teacher.

Could some buddy please try to explain to me how to post pictures on the site----Life is not like a box of candy I seam to know what usually comes:) opps I think I stepped in it again.

Thanks
John

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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Troutnut on Mar 24, 2008March 24th, 2008, 12:23 pm EDT
You don't need to use photobucket. In fact, it's best if you don't. Instead you can just upload the pictures straight to this site when you post in the photography or fishing reports section.

Just write a new post here in the photography section, click "save and add pictures" instead of "submit post," and you'll see a form that's hopefully pretty intuitive to let you upload pictures.

They'll load a lot faster and show up bigger that way than if you go with Photobucket.
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Wbranch on Mar 24, 2008March 24th, 2008, 12:50 pm EDT
I'll surely prefer to upload directly to the site rather tha going through Photobucket. There I have to open that site, locate my albums and upload them, then highlight the picture I want, capture it in "Copy", come back to Troutnut, open my document, and click "Paste".

Then repeat almost all those steps for every picture.
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.
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JAD on Mar 24, 2008March 24th, 2008, 1:21 pm EDT
So are you saying I can"t add a picture to this post I have to start a new post?

John

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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