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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I was not fishing, but happened to be at an unrelated social event on a hill above this tiny creek (which I never even saw) when this stonefly flew by me. I assume it came from there. Some key characteristics are tricky to follow, but process of elimination ultimately led me to Sweltsa borealis. It is reassuringly similar to this specimen posted by Bob Newell years ago. It is also so strikingly similar to this nymph from the same river system that I'm comfortable identifying that nymph from this adult. I was especially pleased with the closeup photo of four mites parasitizing this one.
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Joemathis on Jul 10, 2008July 10th, 2008, 5:32 pm EDT
Hi Everyone!
A new recipe site has launched! It's called Fly Recipes [dot] com (www.flyrecipes.com)
Yeah, it's my personal site and this is a shamless self promotion, but I'm not selling anything or otherwise trying to trick anyone. I just love fly tying and I think I've put together a pretty cool site starting out with over 800 recipes with another 1,250 cataloged and to be online by end of summer. I've built a filtering system using over 100 tags to help you find you pattern quickly.
Come look around, tie a fly, upload a fly, tell me what you think.
Thanks,
Joe
Proslackass on Jul 17, 2008July 17th, 2008, 9:17 am EDT
Your website is great.
Thank you,
Thank you,
Joemathis on Jul 19, 2008July 19th, 2008, 3:13 pm EDT
The pleasure is mine!
Thanks for visiting and contributing on the forums!
-Joe
Thanks for visiting and contributing on the forums!
-Joe
Shawnny3 on Jul 19, 2008July 19th, 2008, 7:13 pm EDT
Hey, Joe. Nice website - I hope you do well with it. I've got a brother who lives in Georgetown, and another in Cedar Park. Neither one does much flyfishing now that they're down there. What sort of fishing do you get to do?
-Shawn
-Shawn
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Joemathis on Jul 20, 2008July 20th, 2008, 7:35 am EDT
Hi Shawn,
Around here you can hit any of the locak river, lakes, and farm ponds (if you're lucky) and fly for bass and panfish. Many of the rivers and creeks have long stretches of shallow water where you can cast to carp. We tensd to have a lot of longnose, spotted and alligator gar around here and I have hooked some of them up on a white wooly bugger floated on top.
Joe
Around here you can hit any of the locak river, lakes, and farm ponds (if you're lucky) and fly for bass and panfish. Many of the rivers and creeks have long stretches of shallow water where you can cast to carp. We tensd to have a lot of longnose, spotted and alligator gar around here and I have hooked some of them up on a white wooly bugger floated on top.
Joe
Joemathis on Jul 20, 2008July 20th, 2008, 7:35 am EDT
Hi Shawn,
Around here you can hit any of the locak river, lakes, and farm ponds (if you're lucky) and fly for bass and panfish. Many of the rivers and creeks have long stretches of shallow water where you can cast to carp. We tensd to have a lot of longnose, spotted and alligator gar around here and I have hooked some of them up on a white wooly bugger floated on top.
Joe
Around here you can hit any of the locak river, lakes, and farm ponds (if you're lucky) and fly for bass and panfish. Many of the rivers and creeks have long stretches of shallow water where you can cast to carp. We tensd to have a lot of longnose, spotted and alligator gar around here and I have hooked some of them up on a white wooly bugger floated on top.
Joe
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