Mark-
The three mayflies you are most likely to encounter on the
Yakima this month are:
March Brown (Rhithrogena) in size #10 - #12
Blue Winged Olive (Baetis, etc.) in size #18 and smaller
Gray Quill (Amaletus) in size #10 - #12
Baetis is not an abbreviation for
Callibaetis. Although both
genera belong to the same family (Baetidae), Baetis primarily inhabits
moving water, and Callibaetis primarily inhabits still
water.
If you want more information about them, just visit my
website.
Sincerely,
Roger Rohrbeck
www.FlyfishingEntomology.com
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 9:25
PM
Subject: Yak Report: 04/02/05
Headed over again to the yak on Saturday. Was on the river by
10 and pretty
much stayed in the same 30 feet of river all day long. The
fish were rising
when I hit the river peaked around 12:30 and went quiet
around 3:30 and then
started rising again around 4:30. It felt like the
fish were changing what
they were keying in on as I was fishing them. I'd
tie something on, catch a
couple of fish in a row and then would go
fishless for 20 minutes. I'd
change flies till I started catching fish,
then I'd go fishless for 20
minutes.
A couple of fly id
questions:
1. I seemed to see two flies hatching on Saturday.
a.
One was very big (not skwala) dark colored maybe size 12ish or
so, was this
a march brown? I didn't see very many.
b. The other was grey size 14 - 16
also had upright wings, guessing
that this is a baeits, this is short for
callibaetis? Would a appropriate
fly for this would be an adams? What other
patterns could I get from a
store? I saw a lot of these guys.
c. Blue
Wing Olive is also a callibaetis, but bwo flies are usually
green/olive not
grey. On the yak I feel like I'm often fishing a size 18,
are these
different than the flies in question b?
Anyways, more things to learn
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