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.

I spent more than an hour casting to several rising trout in this pool and caught only two. Its clear water and tricky currents harbor dozens of free-rising, usually very hard-to-catch fish.

From Enfield Creek in New York

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Zapada cinctipes (Tiny Winter Black) Stonefly Nymph Zapada cinctipes (Tiny Winter Black) Stonefly Nymph

Dorsal view of a Zapada cinctipes (Nemouridae) (Tiny Winter Black) Stonefly Nymph from the Yakima River in Washington

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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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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Mr Mathews Visits the Michigan Fly Fishing Club

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Straight, ironed zelon...BRF actually has women who iron it straight.

Spence trying to steal some flies from Craig Mathews...:)

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Oldredbarn on Jun 16, 2015June 16th, 2015, 10:24 am EDT

I had a really hectic May and haven't been able to post here, so I'm making up for lost time...Poor you! :)

I have to get speakers for the MFFC meetings and the banquet we have in May.

I was lucky enough to talk Craig Mathews from Blue Ribbon Flies fame...and the Sparkle Dun, and the X-Caddis, etc...to speak at our banquet. He grew up here in Michigan and has a couple Master's degrees from MSU in Lansing.

He stayed here with my wife and I and she made a lasagna dinner the night before the banquet evening and we had a great time sitting around the dinner table listening to his fishing stories.

Actually, his stories of his time as the chief of police in West Yellowstone need to be put in a book. They are hilarious! He could be our next Voelker and "Trout Madness"...I won't ruin his stories, if they do make it to print, but the night he met Jack Gartside, now that story for sure needs to be written down...I laughed my ass off!

Anyway...It was great to have him here. He did a tying class for about 25 of us and then did a talk at our banquet on some of the less visited fishing spots in Yellowstone Park...Great pictures.

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