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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Nymphs of this species were fairly common in late-winter kick net samples from the upper Yakima River. Although I could not find a key to species of Zapada nymphs, a revision of the Nemouridae family by Baumann (1975) includes the following helpful sentence: "2 cervical gills on each side of midline, 1 arising inside and 1 outside of lateral cervical sclerites, usually single and elongate, sometimes constricted but with 3 or 4 branches arising beyond gill base in Zapada cinctipes." This specimen clearly has the branches and is within the range of that species.
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Roguerat on Mar 10, 2015March 10th, 2015, 5:41 am EDT
Here's the Lower Platte in full swing, likely my kids are somewhere in that mess...
Oldredbarn on Mar 10, 2015March 10th, 2015, 2:26 pm EDT
What a mess!
Spence
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"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
Roguerat on Mar 10, 2015March 10th, 2015, 3:05 pm EDT
Spence-
That's the scene below M-22...why I stayed way upriver, safe and sane.
My oldest daughter and grandsons float the Lower Platte every summer, too much for me.
By Fall it's too cold to tube and the Steelies and Salmon can head upriver without negotiating traffic-jams.
BTW, I'm enjoying fresh windmill cookies and a tall, cold glass of milk at this moment. Goed!!
Roguerat
That's the scene below M-22...why I stayed way upriver, safe and sane.
My oldest daughter and grandsons float the Lower Platte every summer, too much for me.
By Fall it's too cold to tube and the Steelies and Salmon can head upriver without negotiating traffic-jams.
BTW, I'm enjoying fresh windmill cookies and a tall, cold glass of milk at this moment. Goed!!
Roguerat
Oldredbarn on Mar 10, 2015March 10th, 2015, 6:59 pm EDT
:)
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
Oldredbarn on Mar 11, 2015March 11th, 2015, 2:18 pm EDT
On Gates' hatch chart they actually have listed the "Aluminus flotilla" hatch starting at the beginning of June...Memorial Day being opening weekend for the canoe hatch...
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
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MiltRPowell on Mar 11, 2015March 11th, 2015, 2:55 pm EDT
Re-looking the photo, I think I see. huh? maybe a
pupa 16inch (green) tube hatch also, but could be bad photo, or me... Caddis kids, not light cahill wet.
Huh? I don't know, don't look good for fishing that day anyway....
pupa 16inch (green) tube hatch also, but could be bad photo, or me... Caddis kids, not light cahill wet.
Huh? I don't know, don't look good for fishing that day anyway....
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Feathers5
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Feathers5 on Mar 12, 2015March 12th, 2015, 6:00 am EDT
If you catch one, gut it and take it home. I bet that will end that hatch.
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