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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 Neoleptophlebia (Leptophlebiidae) Mayfly Nymph from the Yakima River in Washington
Some characteristics from the microscope images for the tentative species id: The postero-lateral projections are found only on segment 9, not segment 8. Based on the key in Jacobus et al. (2014), it appears to key to Neoleptophlebia adoptiva or Neoleptophlebia heteronea, same as this specimen with pretty different abdominal markings. However, distinguishing between those calls for comparing the lengths of the second and third segment of the labial palp, and this one (like the other one) only seems to have two segments. So I'm stuck on them both. It's likely that the fact that they're immature nymphs stymies identification in some important way.
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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Hellgramite
Southern calif.

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Hellgramite on Mar 22, 2009March 22nd, 2009, 12:14 pm EDT
I would love to learn some other rigging ideas what say you?
Wbranch
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York & Starlight PA

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Wbranch on Mar 22, 2009March 22nd, 2009, 2:02 pm EDT
Well I don't know very many unique nymphing rigs other than these four;

Conventional set-up with one tail fly and one or more dropper flies, spaced out about 12" or more inches above the point fly.

Drop shot nymphing where you put a significantly heavy BB or many BB's at the end of the tippet and rig up droppers off of the main tippet and add the flies to the droppers so the weight is on the bottom and the flies are floating at varying points in the water column.

Drop a nymph, or two, below some sort of indicator.

Drop a nymph off of the bend of a dry fly - add a piece of tippet to the bend of the dry fly hook anywhere from 6" - to whatever and add a nymph to this section of tippet. It casts a 100X better than any indicator set-up and sometimes a trout will rise to the dry fly too.
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.
LittleJ
Hollidaysburg Pa

Posts: 251
LittleJ on Mar 22, 2009March 22nd, 2009, 3:39 pm EDT
Czech nymph rig-
Leader- 6' 4x flouro. flat no taper. Tie in a 10" piece of old fly line,amnesia, or yellow stren, about 15" down from your "butt".
Tie a small tippet ring on the lead end, then attach 16" 4x to another tippet ring. Tie a 16" dropper and a 7" dropper off the last ring, then a 7" dropper off the first. Be sure to use your heavy fly on the middle 7" dropper. I've also found that if my droppers go longer than 7 or 8 inches they twist up a good bit. I'm not sure if that's how the pros rig it ,but that is how I do it and it works for me. Total leader length is about 8 1/2 feet, best suited for a long rod.
jeff
Martinlf
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Palmyra PA

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Martinlf on Dec 30, 2009December 30th, 2009, 10:16 am EST
Hey Matt, We had been discussing Czech nymphing; remember this one?
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"

--Fred Chappell
Cdcaddis18
Huntington, PA

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Cdcaddis18 on Jan 6, 2010January 6th, 2010, 2:02 pm EST
Louis,

I copied Jeff's explanation of the Czech nymph rig and sent an email to myself with the info. Thanks.

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