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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Konchu on Sep 8, 2016September 8th, 2016, 10:22 am EDT
Dickson Despommier, a retired professor of Public Health and Microbiology at Columbia University, and a life-long trout angler/ecologist, kindly shared with me a recently developed website that might be of interest to some of those who haunt this site.
http://www.thelivingriver.org/
Enjoy!
PS Jason, if you don't want other sites promoted, feel free to delete this post. I was asked to share, and so I am doing so.
http://www.thelivingriver.org/
Enjoy!
PS Jason, if you don't want other sites promoted, feel free to delete this post. I was asked to share, and so I am doing so.
Oldredbarn on Sep 8, 2016September 8th, 2016, 5:03 pm EDT
Looks very interesting! Thanks Luke...Reminds me a bit, at first glance, of some of the books by Jason Randal.
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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
Taxon on Sep 8, 2016September 8th, 2016, 7:19 pm EDT
Couldn't help but notice "Caddis fly" and "Stone fly" in the Glossary. I believe they should be be spelled "Caddisfly" and "Stonefly", as only Dipteran common names are properly spelled with a space before the "fly".
And yes, I plead guilty to being an intransigent nitpicker. :-)
And yes, I plead guilty to being an intransigent nitpicker. :-)
TimCat on Sep 8, 2016September 8th, 2016, 7:29 pm EDT
Thanks for sharing. I'll be reading more from this site in the future.
"If I'm not going to catch anything, then I 'd rather not catch anything on flies" - Bob Lawless
Jmd123 on Sep 9, 2016September 9th, 2016, 4:23 am EDT
"And yes, I plead guilty to being an intransigent nitpicker. :-)"
Oh, you taxonomist you! Lest we forget, only birds have official common names...there is no such thing as a "Canadian goose", they're Canada geese...there's no such thing as a "seagull", they are herring gulls or ring-necked gulls, etc....but I certainly get your point, only the Diptera are true flies, like the Hemiptera (I think they're now called the Heteroptera) are the only true bugs.
Which reminds me of a Peace Corps story...my (now ex-) wife and I went with a couple of friends of ours to one of the properties owned by the university I was teaching at in Chile (Catholic University of Maule), a beautiful spot called Costa Azul (Blue Coast) right on the south Pacific Ocean. In our hiking around the place, my ex and I saw an interesting insect, which was a true bug in the Hemiptera (or whatever!), and upon showing it to our friends they asked, well what is it, you entomologists? And our response was, "It's a bug!" "NO SH*T!! We already knew that!!" And I don't think our explanation helped...
;oD
Jonathon
Oh, you taxonomist you! Lest we forget, only birds have official common names...there is no such thing as a "Canadian goose", they're Canada geese...there's no such thing as a "seagull", they are herring gulls or ring-necked gulls, etc....but I certainly get your point, only the Diptera are true flies, like the Hemiptera (I think they're now called the Heteroptera) are the only true bugs.
Which reminds me of a Peace Corps story...my (now ex-) wife and I went with a couple of friends of ours to one of the properties owned by the university I was teaching at in Chile (Catholic University of Maule), a beautiful spot called Costa Azul (Blue Coast) right on the south Pacific Ocean. In our hiking around the place, my ex and I saw an interesting insect, which was a true bug in the Hemiptera (or whatever!), and upon showing it to our friends they asked, well what is it, you entomologists? And our response was, "It's a bug!" "NO SH*T!! We already knew that!!" And I don't think our explanation helped...
;oD
Jonathon
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...
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Feathers5 on Sep 9, 2016September 9th, 2016, 5:54 am EDT
Looks like a very nice site. I will explore it. Thanks
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