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Post by jskowron on Jun 3, 2008 15:37:30 GMT -5
Nice pics and post.
I believe that there bug is a Dobsonfly nymph, otherwise known as a Hellgrammite. Though traditionally copied with with long, multi-legged patterns (e.g. wooly worm like things), I think I read somewhere recently that they actually curl up into a ball when they are being swept in the current. Dobsonflies are big, scary looking things with horns half the length of their bodies. Don't think the adults are much interest to anglers.
Jeff
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Post by jskowron on Jun 3, 2008 15:44:43 GMT -5
You Bamboo guys- giving us lots of info on the rod, line, reel, etc, but forget to tell us what flies and techniques.
;DOh yeah, how about some GPS coordinates as well ;D
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Post by Mark Patenaude on Jun 3, 2008 15:57:59 GMT -5
Sweet pics!
That is a Hellgrammite. The larval stage of the Dobson Fly. Smallies love em'. Be careful, they bite...
Mark
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Post by dragonma15 on Jun 4, 2008 9:04:46 GMT -5
Hey Dan, You weren't kidding. I guess you have been keeping busy on the river. I've been sneaking out an hour here and there after work. You're right, there are plenty of fish! And now, the new house is about 5 min. to the Foggy's pull off. So sneaking away is getting easier. PM me, we should hook up on the water some time. We can invite Jeff too. And the way you are catching them, I'll leave the rod at home and just bring a net  Gregg |
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Post by jskowron on Jun 22, 2008 5:50:37 GMT -5
Fished the E.Branch below the Chesterfield Gorge gate yesterday with my Brother-in-law. I got 3 rainbows and Brown with dry flies- one Bow on an 14 EHC with a caddis pupae dropper and all the others on Bugmeisters (size 12, 3x hooks). My Bro in law caught a couple of Rainbows on a Borger Hares Ear nymphs. Bows in the 12-16 inch range, brightly colored and good fighters- a few of the put on a good aerial display, leaping and shaking. The brown was about 6-8 inches and had par markings (could've been a small salmon). We seined the river, and found several big stonefly nymphs, caddis in and out of cases, isonychia, a hellgramite, and several smaller stonefly and little mayfly nymphs. It pays to go to our meetings. I had never heard of Bugmeisters until Walt Geryk talked at one of the meetings about how he used them in the Westfield between hatches. He showed a video of drifting them in a slow pool in the mid-day sun. As a result, I tied some up and they were the big fly yesterday. If Walt reads this, he'll probably expect some guide fees from me. Here's a link to a site with the pattern www.flytyingforum.com/index.php?act=flyshow&showid=1087I tied mine with standard wrapped hackle rather than parachute style. |
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