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.

This little pool in update New York is enjoyed by many tourists every day, and it still holds a few trout -- stockers mostly, but you can't complain about the setting!

From Mystery Creek # 62 in New York

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Onocosmoecus (Great Late-Summer Sedge) Caddisfly Larva Onocosmoecus (Great Late-Summer Sedge) Caddisfly Larva

Lateral view of a Onocosmoecus (Limnephilidae) (Great Late-Summer Sedge) Caddisfly Larva from the Yakima River in Washington

This specimen keys pretty easily to Onocosmoecus, and it closely resembles a specimen from Alaska which caddis expert Dave Ruiter recognized as this genus. As with that specimen, the only species in the genus documented in this area is Onocosmoecus unicolor, but Dave suggested for that specimen that there might be multiple not-yet-distinguished species under the unicolor umbrella and it would be best to stick with the genus-level ID. I'm doing the same for this one.

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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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FredH

Lake Charles , Louisiana

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FredH on Jul 4, 2013July 4th, 2013, 11:57 am EDT

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Can anyone tell me if this is a darner or skimmer?

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Taxon

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Taxon on Jul 4, 2013July 4th, 2013, 3:29 pm EDT

Hi Fred-

The outline looks more like that of a Cruiser to me, but if the only choices I am given are Darner or Skimmer, I'd have to go with Skimmer. :-)

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Roger Rohrbeck
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FredH

Lake Charles , Louisiana

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FredH on Jul 4, 2013July 4th, 2013, 3:40 pm EDT

Yeah , I believe we have more species of skimmers than anything. Of course It might be an amberwing . Next time I'll take a photo with a coin or something to show scale.

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