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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 Glossosoma (Glossosomatidae) (Little Brown Short-horned Sedge) Caddisfly Larva from the Yakima River in Washington
I caught this tiny larva without a case, but it seems to key pretty clearly to to Glossosomatidae. From there, the lack of sclerites on the mesonotum points to either Glossosoma or Anagapetus. Although it's difficult to see in a 2D image from the microscope, it's pretty clear in the live 3D view that the pronotum is only excised about 1/3 of its length to accommodate the forecoxa, not 2/3, which points to Glossosoma at Couplet 5 of the Key to Genera of Glossosomatidae Larvae.
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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Troutnut on Dec 7, 2011December 7th, 2011, 10:23 am EST
In case anyone was wondering, the site being down had nothing to do with the Chinese spammers that were recently attacking the forum. It was a problem with my web host affecting a bunch of their clients, and it's been fixed.

I'm pretty confident in saying I have the spammers beaten now. I put some powerful new anti-spam code in a few days ago, and since then they haven't posted a thing.
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Entoman on Dec 7, 2011December 7th, 2011, 9:01 pm EST
Thanks for all the work, Jason. Sorry you've had so much trouble lately. You probably needed all this like an ear infection. It's not as if you have nothing else going on in your life...:)

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CaseyP on Dec 8, 2011December 8th, 2011, 5:23 am EST
thank you, Jason! your passion for bugs, fishing, and this site make a lot of lives much happier.
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PaulRoberts on Dec 8, 2011December 8th, 2011, 6:25 am EST
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Oldredbarn on Dec 8, 2011December 8th, 2011, 7:56 am EST
Jason,

I just figured that everything up your way, server and all, had just froze up...and you were out looking for some wood for the stove and it would thaw out eventually...Maybe June or so. :)

Stay warm! Thanks!

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Troutnut on Dec 8, 2011December 8th, 2011, 4:14 pm EST
The servers hosting this site are located in Chicago. Of course, most people would still call that a cold place. Compared to Fairbanks, though... ha ha HA HA ha HA ha ha HA HA HA ha ha HA ha HA HA HA etc...
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Jesse on Dec 8, 2011December 8th, 2011, 4:25 pm EST
Jason thanks for dealing with all that comes with the bad ass site ha!
Most of us fish our whole lives..not knowing its not the fish that we are after.
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