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.

Here Oksrukuyik Creek flows away from the Dalton Highway toward the pipeline. It eventually grows into one of the major rivers of the North Slope, and the main drainage to the west of the Sag, but where it crosses the road it's just a small grayling stream.

From Oksrukuyik Creek in Alaska

Stream photos

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Dorsal view of a Kogotus (Perlodidae) Stonefly Nymph from Mystery Creek #199 in Washington

This one pretty clearly keys to Kogotus, but it also looks fairly different from specimens I caught in the same creek about a month later in the year. With only one species of the genus known in Washington, I'm not sure about the answer to this ID.

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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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Catch and Release

Hellgramite
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Hellgramite on Jan 11, 2009January 11th, 2009, 9:25 am EST

Catch and Release GOOD or BAD?

Shawnny3
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Shawnny3 on Jan 11, 2009January 11th, 2009, 11:38 am EST

Do a quick search and you'll find that this topic has been discussed on this forum a number of times from slightly different angles. Here's one of them:

http://www.troutnut.com/topic/748

I don't mean to stunt the thread, because many may want to weigh in on this topic, I just wanted folks to be aware that there are a lot of other similar threads that might be worth digging up, especially since some very knowledgeable people who posted in previous threads are currently on hiatus.

-Shawn

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