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While I lived in Elmira ,New York I love fishing on the
Chemung River on Hudson Street.. In the fifties I would strap my spinning rod
,can of worms, 1/4 inch screen in a 24 x30 inch screen nailed in a wooded frame
,a potato fork ,tackle box all attach to my 24 inch Rollfast bike. I use the
potato to rake the bottom rocks of the river and let the river flow into the
screen to pick up the Dobson and it was a guarantee a bunch of healthy bass
.This is the funny part and honesty I'm telling the truth .I remember others
screen for the Dobson nymphs and the bait shops always had a good supply .Those
crazy fools would have a few dozen in their hat ,wrap a wet
cloth and not all of them didn't stay in the wet cloth..Can you imagine how I
would see this common use technique, thinking how crazy it seen to a young
fellow and I been pinch by then several times. I used a large can with a wet rag
in it with a wire handle I made . I never wore a hat ...Glenn
Overton
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 2:59
PM
Subject: Re: [VFB] Yellowstone digital
pics
Nope. If those things were emerging from the lake, I
doubt I would stay in it! It's about four inches to big. Ugly
Bug! Thanks for the link and pics.
Tom
On Aug 2, 2006, at 8:44 AM, Garry V. Wiles wrote:
Tom,
I'm still wondering about the Dobsonfly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobsonfly -- it's a
stonefly wanna be. It crawls out like a stonefly and drys on the foliage
along the banks.
Garry
At 10:19 AM 8/2/2006, you
wrote:
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
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