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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JAD on Jul 2, 2007July 2nd, 2007, 2:27 pm EDT
Nice brown Jason, what did he take.
JaD
They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax.
Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times,
Troutnut on Jul 2, 2007July 2nd, 2007, 9:27 pm EDT
Congratulations!
I fixed the picture and link for you. (The code straight from photobucket doesn't work.)
I fixed the picture and link for you. (The code straight from photobucket doesn't work.)
Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D.
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IEatimago on Jul 3, 2007July 3rd, 2007, 2:55 am EDT
that one took a parachute adams,