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.

The "Fountain Flats" stretch of the Firehole was fishable in the morning after an uncharacteristically cold August night.

From the Firehole River in Wyoming

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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.

Troutnut is a project started in 2003 by salmonid ecologist Jason "Troutnut" Neuswanger to help anglers and fly tyers unabashedly embrace the entomological side of the sport. Learn more about Troutnut or support the project for an enhanced experience here.

Summer 2015 Fieldwork Video

By Troutnut on June 27th, 2015, 10:10 pm EDT

This summer is intensely busy because we're beginning the first season of real fieldwork on a complicated new project. We just completed June sampling and I put together a video of what we're doing, including some really nice fish videos of feeding juvenile Chinook salmon, dolly varden, and Arctic grayling in interior Alaska:

More details about the project, including context for some of the things in the video, are available at the Drift Model Project website.

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Catskilljon
Upstate NY

Posts: 160

Catskilljon on Jun 28, 2015June 28th, 2015, 6:53 am EDT

Well done Jason! That was the best flick I have seen in years. Seeing those little DV taking food off the top...you just cant not smile. Very well done. CJ

Oldredbarn

Novi, MI

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Oldredbarn on Jun 28, 2015June 28th, 2015, 2:18 pm EDT

"Balloon Popper"...I like that Jason...

Looks interesting. Great video. I'm going to have to visit the other site and find out what those measuring things are you are placing in the water...?

Thanks for sharing.

Spence

The thickest midge hatch I’ve ever seen made it impossible to drive the boat without sunglasses, and even then I was constantly wiping my eyes to clear out the ones that slipped past the glasses.

Don't let Tony (Gutcutter) see this! He'll be on a plane heading your way by morning with his 4wt and his 10x tippet, and size 30 flies! :)

"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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