Spring Has Arrived

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I took these guys out of the local waters today. My wife saw the first trout upstream earlier. Looks like spring is finally coming!

All are Norther Case Maker Caddisflies. Top two photos are of a vegitation cased cadis larva and the bottom one is a stick builder.

As you can see I’m not a photographer and not an entomologist. I have two books that tell me everything I need to know (I hope). One of my goals this year is to find these guys in the water and learn some very rudementary identification.

jed

[This message has been edited by Jed (edited 27 March 2006).]

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Wow J.C. I am sincerely impressed. I did the bug/crawdad thing over 30 years ago with my 3 sons. What fond memories, peering into the aguarium for hours watching those critters. My kids enjoyed it too. Also, it is nice to see your 52 feet of reading material, I never doubted you.

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Spring is definetly here! I am starting to see the carp sunbathing on the river again. And the sunfish are bighting harder. I cant wait for the anadromous fish to arrive

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Jonezee, there are 7 more bookcases, not including my cookbooks…

LadyFisher, Publisher of
FAOL

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Nice pics! I took something similar on the Kings River last week (it’s a little big for just blasting it in here so I’m posting the URL instead):

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They’re posing for me in the water. The shot was taken using a Pentax water proof camera (macro mode, underwater).

Sticking your hand into 41 degrees Fahrenheit (5 C) water makes it very cold very quickly.

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It feels like spring here. We’re already fishing size 6 dry flies.

This is a rare catch in a major montana river. My friend caught it yesterday.