…if you like getting down and dirty with the East County Ho Stone (you know, cheap, easy, dirty & works all day and all night)…
that leads to this:
which after multiple cartwheeling, and jumping and just general mayhem, will lead to this:
there was also a good 20 min. MB/BWO hatch that was so thick I couldn’t take a single breath without inhaling some of those things…had a lot of fun during those 20 minutes.
Luv the bug !! do you have a recipe? love the bow as well !!!
sure, right here from a report a couple of weeks ago…several posts down.
http://fiberglassflyrodders.yuku.com/topic/12658
I think the key is to keep it slender. When you look at the naturals, they’re always much more slender than most of the standard patterns out there (like the Kaufman stone)…goldens are a little chunkier than salmonfly numphs, but not much.
Nice report, and GREAT pics, Randy! I checked the link you included, and those are some amazing macro pics of the fish heads too!
VERY well done!
In looking at the wet vs. dry pictures of your fly (which I really like, BTW), the wet version appears to have a lot of fur hanging off the abdomen. Is that just what it looks like after the fish have been chewing on it for awhile? :o)
Great Thank you very much I may have just found my new Ho for the SWAB Area…
Thanks again, great report and great macros of the fish…
Thanks for the kind words on the macros…but alas, it’s more of a product of one taking pictures alone, rather than a product of my picture taking prowess…but, I’ll take it.
I think that part of the key to successful stonefly patterns is keeping them slim. If you look at the naturals, they are all much slimmer than the cast majority of stonefly imitations out there (especially the venerable Kaufman Stone)…of course, any fly that has peacock herl in it isn’t a bad thing.
That’s a great shot of the bending glass you have there! If I attempted that shot I would have slipped on a rock, dropped the camera, snapped my tippet and fallen in…
Why no love for poor East County? Forgotten by PDX and despised by Gresham it needs all the love it can get.
Great report and great looking fly. I do enjoy an easy to tie pattern that works!
Enjoy the pics as well.
It just had a better ring to it…try it with any other name and it just doesn’t seem to sound right…
Nice reports and pics!!! I think I might have to take a drive to the D one of these days. I messed around on the N. Fork of the M the other year that was fun too 
hero shot of one of my buddy’s whiteys…they’re slippery little buggers.
had another good weekend out there with a nice MB hatch with somewhere around a half dozen fish brought up during those thirty minutes. Nymphing was very productive the rest of the time.