Tiny Baetis mayflies are perhaps the most commonly encountered and imitated by anglers on all American trout streams due to their great abundance, widespread distribution, and trout-friendly emergence habits.
This Skwala nymph still has a couple months left to go before hatching, but it's still a good representative of its species, which was extremely abundant in my sample for a stonefly of this size. It's obvious why the Yakima is known for its Skwala hatch.
Well, the word from everyone around here is that the fishing is SLOOOW. This includes my own four hours of flinging flies on Thursday evening, more casting practice after a long cold Winter than anything. So, more photography...Enjoy!
Jonathon
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...
Jmd123 on Apr 11, 2011April 11th, 2011, 7:23 am EDT
Well, it's Spring for REAL now - the frogs started calling in the lake behind my house last night! Spring peepers AND wood frogs, plus I heard coyotes yipping off in the distance, kicked up a whitetail in the dark on my way back up to the house from the lake, and even saw "glow-worms" in the grass along the shore (I think they're firefly larvae). It was warm, humid, and still, after a day in which our temperature reached an incredibly balmy 75F (at least)!
Fishing is STILL sloooooow - I threw big pike streamers off the Tawas pier yesterday evening for a couple of hours, no takers. A big ice sheet had moved in from across the bay and there were "icebergs" floating around all over the place...still not quite there yet.
Jonathon
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...