Salmonflies
Pteronarcys californica
The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.
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This one seems to tentatively key to Holocentropus, although I can't make out the anal spines in Couplet 7 of the Key to Genera of Polycentropodidae Larvae nor the dark bands in Couplet 4 of the Key to Genera of Polycentropodidae Larvae, making me wonder if I went wrong somewhere in keying it out. I don't see where that could have happened, though. It might also be that it's a very immature larva and doesn't possess all the identifying characteristics in the key yet. If Holocentropus is correct, then Holocentropus flavus and Holocentropus interruptus are the two likely possibilities based on range, but I was not able to find a description of their larvae.
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Oldredbarn on Oct 2, 2015October 2nd, 2015, 7:43 pm EDT
Mike,
They work here just fine...I carry a memorial box in my vest with nothing but Mark's flies in it...A "Softhackle" box...It has a label on it, "The Libertone Box".
I'm a match the hatcher and I fish them to feeding fish more often than not. Mark wanted me to fish them the old fashon way and swing them...That works...I think that wets in the right sizes work simiilarly to emergers. They need to be sparse and may appeaar like insects stuck in the surface film...
They have been fooling fish for a long time.
Mark was the guy that got this old ex-Teamster ex-hockey player to stand at an embroidery thread display in Jo Anns! They were on sale and all these women were giving me some odd looks...Maybe I imagined it, but it was funny...The colors available are incredible!
Mark was always helpful to others on this site and a real angling gentleman.
Spence
They work here just fine...I carry a memorial box in my vest with nothing but Mark's flies in it...A "Softhackle" box...It has a label on it, "The Libertone Box".
I'm a match the hatcher and I fish them to feeding fish more often than not. Mark wanted me to fish them the old fashon way and swing them...That works...I think that wets in the right sizes work simiilarly to emergers. They need to be sparse and may appeaar like insects stuck in the surface film...
They have been fooling fish for a long time.
Mark was the guy that got this old ex-Teamster ex-hockey player to stand at an embroidery thread display in Jo Anns! They were on sale and all these women were giving me some odd looks...Maybe I imagined it, but it was funny...The colors available are incredible!
Mark was always helpful to others on this site and a real angling gentleman.
Spence
"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively
"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
Martinlf on Oct 3, 2015October 3rd, 2015, 1:34 pm EDT
Spence, last June I picked up a fish on one of your PA streams that has a reputation for tough customers by powdering a wet tied to imitate a Drunella cornuta and fishing it in the film. That fish had passed on a number of dry and emerger patterns, but ate the soft hackle right away.
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"
--Fred Chappell
--Fred Chappell
Oldredbarn on Oct 3, 2015October 3rd, 2015, 6:19 pm EDT
Louis...Maybe we should of kept this between ourselves and sent PM's to each other. :)
Spence
Spence
"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively
"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
Martinlf on Oct 3, 2015October 3rd, 2015, 6:49 pm EDT
Now you tell me. ;>
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"
--Fred Chappell
--Fred Chappell
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