Artistic view of a Male Pteronarcys californica (Pteronarcyidae) (Giant Salmonfly) Stonefly Adult from the Gallatin River in Montana

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The giant Salmonflies of the Western mountains are legendary for their proclivity to elicit consistent dry-fly action and ferocious strikes.

We were lucky to be able to fish through this storm as it skirted around us to the north, giving us just enough clouds to prompt a BWO hatch but keeping the lighting at a safe distance.

From Slough Creek in Wyoming

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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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8 steps to better nymph fishing

Cutbow

Post Falls, Idaho

Posts: 38

Cutbow on Jun 27, 2015June 27th, 2015, 6:44 pm EDT

This youtube video is a good one to watch if you want to improve your nymphing success!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m0QbVTWhtw

"Once you catch your first fish on a fly you won't care about any other kind of fishing!"

Entoman

Northern CA & ID

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Entoman on Jun 29, 2015June 29th, 2015, 5:10 am EDT

Hilarious!

"It's not that I find fishing so important, it's just that I find all other endeavors of Man equally unimportant... And not nearly as much fun!" Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman

Crepuscular

Boiling Springs, PA

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Crepuscular on Jun 29, 2015June 29th, 2015, 5:53 pm EDT

Yeah, personally I really like Step 1. ;)

Oldredbarn

Novi, MI

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Oldredbarn on Jun 30, 2015June 30th, 2015, 7:26 am EDT

Thanks John...I'm wiping away the laughing tears! Ha!

I's got's to get me one of them chairs! And I'm drinking the wrong beer...

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

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