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stoneflies
i know some about stoneflies and there being the salmonfly,goldenstone,yellowstone,lime and yellow sally, skwala, little black and little brown stone. but every once and a while on a river i have fished every summer of my life. theres this bug that hatches. its a stonefly forsure. but its 3 inches long ATLEAST. it makes the salmonflies look like midgets.. i can only imitate it by using a size 2 streamer hook and tying a stonefly patter on it.so i was just wondering if this is just another subspecies of the salmonfly. they look pretty much the same. dark brown with some orange/pinky color on there belly but these things are HUGE. i just got thinking about it after all this talk about sedges and caddis only hatching ever few years type life cycle. and if theres some humungoid stone that does the same. or am i just nuts???
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could it be a hellgramite , Where are you located?
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Did a search...very short...but the Dobson Fly wasn't said to have some orange...maybe you aren't used to the ...
Pteronarcys californica)
it has been called the "giant stonefly"
your location would help...
[This message has been edited by ducksterman (edited 17 December 2005).]
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His profile says Calgery...I'm assuming hes in Canada...
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Sorry, was in a hurry and missed it...still wonder if he didn't see what I said.
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yes im in canada. it may have bin the dobson. i have only seen this hatch in one place in central britishcolumbia. the river is high gradient freestone stream. i thought the hellgramite was a insect found more out east. also i thought they likes low too meduim gradient type water. this river is as cold and clean as she gets. water is drinkable right out of the river and u still get cold wearing waders in the heat of summer.
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Dear sunsky,
Did you catch any of these insects or just observe them in flight?
If you caught one and it didn't have pincers up front it wasn't a hellgrammite, or dobson fly. You cannot mistake an adult once you see one. You definitely would not forget one after it has bitten you.
I've tried googling and I can't find any record of hellgrammites in Western Canada but I didn't run an exhaustive search. I'm guessing you saw an stonefly of some type.
Regards,
Tim Murphy
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yes i caught a few. they use too crawl all over me. scare the hell outta ya when u pull a monster bug out form somewere. they were forsure a stonefly. i googled some pcis and stone and i think it was a monster stone of some sort...
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Dear sunsky,
You weren't downwind from a nuclear power plant were you?
Regards,
Tim Murphy