Re: [VFB] Yellowstone digital pics

[Tom Davenport]

Nope, it wasn't a Mayfly.  Its wings were never upright.  It had to be a monster caddis or some type of smaller stonefly.   I wish I had taken a picture. Tom On Jul 31, 2006, at 12:09 PM, Larry Johnson wrote: Tom:  It was probably the Green Drake mayfly,  reportedly one of the larger mayflies in the West, and provides one of the grandest hatches on the Firehole and other rivers in the Park. Larry J "Tom Davenport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 7/30/2006 7:29 PM >>> When on the Lake I noticed a large, clumsy fly emerge that looked   like a Salmon fly.  I watched one crawl out of its nymphal shuck.    They are very clumsy flyers and the adults often ended up in the lake. Another fisherman on the Lake my first day caught three cutthroat   using a small muddler minnow on top which made a very accurate   representation of the nymph emerging from its shuck.  Those three   fish were the only ones HE caught in three days of fishing.  I didn't  have a small muddler, I tried using a stimulator with no success.    The single Cutthroat I caught took the pheasant tail dropper. I have always associated Salmon flies with rivers, and know that they  crawl out of the water to escape their nymphal shuck.  Is there a   variety of Salmon fly that lives in lakes and emerges from the   surface?  Or was I mistaking this bug for something else? It had a large green body but only half the size of a large salmon   fly,it had wings stretched across its abdomen like a salmon fly, that  proved to be double wings when it flew. Any body out there familiar with a Stone fly that lives in lakes?    Could it have been a very large Caddis? Tom On Jul 30, 2006, at 4:53 PM, Michael Bliss wrote: http://www.nps.gov/yell/slidefile/arthropods/  fliesdragonfliesdamselflies/Page.htm I found this page by accident looking for flies for the Yellowstone  trip thought some of you would enjoy it. Mike Home Page: http://homepage.mac.com/tsmd Webshots Albums:  http://community.webshots.com/user/tsmdav