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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.

Mystery Creek # 244 in Montana

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Zapada cinctipes (Tiny Winter Black) Stonefly NymphZapada 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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Landscape & scenery photos from Nome Creek

The dorsal fin of a grayling is one of the prettiest sights in Alaska.
A very nice grayling for this small stream.
Beautiful grayling brought to hand.
The first fish on a fly of 2011 for either of us, and she caught it while I was still rigging up my rod.
Lena landing a feisty grayling.
Playing around a bit with backlighting and demonstrating how not to hold a fish.
View of lower Nome Creek at the canoe launch for floating Beaver Creek (the next take-out is at the Yukon River bridge a couple weeks downstream). From Nome Creek in Alaska
Nome Creek in Alaska
Inspecting the net with my intrepid sidekick. From Nome Creek in Alaska
This is the first time I've kicknetted bugs since we got Taiga, and she turns out to be so very helpful. From Nome Creek in Alaska
Nome Creek in Alaska
Nome Creek in Alaska

Underwater photos from Nome Creek

Nome Creek in Alaska

Closeup insects by Troutnut from Nome Creek in Alaska

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Male Ephemerella aurivillii Mayfly Dun
Male Ephemerella aurivillii (Ephemerellidae) Mayfly Dun from Nome Creek in Alaska
This dun hatched in my aquarium on July 16th from an easily identified nymph collected on July 10th, and it molted into a spinner after I photographed it. The beautiful spinner form is listed as separate specimen. I forgot to photograph the dun with the ruler, but naturally his size is pretty similar to what it was as a spinner.
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Male Ephemerella aurivillii Mayfly Spinner
Artistic view of a Male Ephemerella aurivillii (Ephemerellidae) Mayfly Spinner from Nome Creek in Alaska
This spinner molted from a dun after being photographed, and the dun form is listed here as a separate specimen. I've rarely found a more cooperative and photogenic mayfly.
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Male Cinygmula ramaleyi (Small Western Gordon Quill) Mayfly Dun
Lateral view of a Male Cinygmula ramaleyi (Heptageniidae) (Small Western Gordon Quill) Mayfly Dun from Nome Creek in Alaska
This dun hatched out from a nymph in my aquarium on July 16th, after being collected July 10th. It is probably of the same species as this nymph, and this dun which also hatched from one of these seemingly identical nymphs.
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Ephemerella aurivillii Mayfly Nymph
Dorsal view of a Ephemerella aurivillii (Ephemerellidae) Mayfly Nymph from Nome Creek in Alaska
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Heptagenia pulla (Golden Dun) Mayfly Nymph
Dorsal view of a Heptagenia pulla (Heptageniidae) (Golden Dun) Mayfly Nymph from Nome Creek in Alaska
Like most Alaskan mayflies, this one is tricky to identify to the species level. See the discussion section for an informative chat about this one's ID. The current leaning is to call it a fairly immature Heptagenia pulla nymph, but a case has been made for Heptagenia elegantula as well.
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Drunella doddsii (Western Green Drake) Mayfly Nymph
Dorsal view of a Drunella doddsii (Ephemerellidae) (Western Green Drake) Mayfly Nymph from Nome Creek in Alaska
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Female Cinygmula ramaleyi (Small Western Gordon Quill) Mayfly Dun
Lateral view of a Female Cinygmula ramaleyi (Heptageniidae) (Small Western Gordon Quill) Mayfly Dun from Nome Creek in Alaska
This dun is almost certainly of the same species as this nymph, as it hatched in my cooler from a nearly identical nymph.
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Cinygmula ramaleyi (Small Western Gordon Quill) Mayfly Nymph
Cinygmula ramaleyi (Heptageniidae) (Small Western Gordon Quill) Mayfly Nymph from Nome Creek in Alaska
This nymph is almost definitely the same species as this dun, which hatched from a nearly identical nymph from the same collection.
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Male Ephemerella aurivillii Mayfly Dun
Lateral view of a Male Ephemerella aurivillii (Ephemerellidae) Mayfly Dun from Nome Creek in Alaska
This is the most widespread species of Ephemerella, and also the most abundant in some places, but nobody I've talked to seemed to know what its duns looked like, and there were no pictures of its duns online or in any angling books. That mystery is solved with this male dun, which hatched from a definitively identified nymph.
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Ephemerella aurivillii Mayfly Nymph
Dorsal view of a Ephemerella aurivillii (Ephemerellidae) Mayfly Nymph from Nome Creek in Alaska
This nymph hatched out in my aquarium into this dun.
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Female Ephemerella aurivillii Mayfly Dun
Lateral view of a Female Ephemerella aurivillii (Ephemerellidae) Mayfly Dun from Nome Creek in Alaska
This dun hatched out in my aquarium from this nymph.

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