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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 Zapada cinctipes (Nemouridae) (Tiny Winter Black) Stonefly Nymph from the Yakima River in Washington
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.
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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GoofusBug
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GoofusBug on Jan 11, 2009January 11th, 2009, 2:36 pm EST
Was reading an article on brook trout which said that brookies most often feed on the bottom.

Is this true in your own experience?
UPTroutBum
Marquette, MI

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UPTroutBum on Jan 12, 2009January 12th, 2009, 9:18 am EST
Pretty broad statement there. On my local streams in northern michigan, I have caught most brookies on nymphs, especially the bigger ones, I have caught some small guys on drys like an adams, never any bigger than 8, maybe its just my luck.
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RleeP
NW PA - Pennsylvania's Glacial Pothole Wonderland

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RleeP on Jan 12, 2009January 12th, 2009, 9:43 am EST
It is sort of a broad statement, but it isn't (IMO) without some modicum of truth, even if it is a more comparative truth.

Here's what I mean by this:

In my experience, of the 3 species of trout/char most of us fish over in the East/Midwest, I have found that day in and day out, brook trout are the least likely to be free-rising. This is among wild populations and presumes we are not talking about fish that live (as brookies often do..) in a setting sufficiently infertile that they cannot afford to let virtually any feeding opportunity pass.

I don't think the difference in this between the species is that pronounced, but I do think it is real.

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