I like to tie Deceivers of various sizes and colors, they are fairly simple and seem to work. My brother is a more advanced fly tyer than myself and makes much more complex flies. They all seem to...
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I like to tie Deceivers of various sizes and colors, they are fairly simple and seem to work. My brother is a more advanced fly tyer than myself and makes much more complex flies. They all seem to...
Depends on the time of day as well. On a trout stream, if there is little to no visible activity I always throw a grey hackle peacock and a random fly that should represent something fairly common...
Yep, Robber fly. Think someone else had a picture of one a while back too. Come in all sizes and colors, my favorite ones look like bumble bees.
I've never fished the Webber, but if it's a weekend date, the Provo can get pretty crowded. It has a lot of easy drive in access and isn't a very large stream, just a heads up.
We used to get a few of them in Butte Creek close to Chico. They are cool to look at under a microscope.
Unless the pulses cause some bedroll I doubt much will happen. As long as the Iso habitat is not utterly destroyed, they will stick around.
As far as the FERC stuff goes, at least they try I...
I used to help with some of the POD sampling. Just hanging out with the boat operator explaining the history and the changes of the delta was eye opening itself. The best example is the C&H sugar...
Just my opinion, I would recommend the vice be rotary as well. Doesn't have to be full on rotary as in you can wind thread on by spinning it, but I've found being able to look at all sides of a fly...
Yeah until they fix the politics/water issues you'll never really see good smolt survival and recovery of populations. To really protect the salmonids they need to desginate a lot of our valley...
Have the flows dropped yet? We did our first drift of the year on Sunday, flows were around 3500, was hard to get good presentations in the fast deep stuff, but picked up some fish here and there. ...
Robber fly, they are predacious, catch other insects and suck them dry. They come in large and small sizes, some even look like bumble bees.
I like borax, and you should scrape off any fat as well. Pretty much what Bill said, nice dry place, just make sure the beetles and moths don't get at it while it dries.
Yeah post a picture, sounds like a horsehair worm maybe, a very large nematode. The only thing I can think of in that size range.
Yeah most of the pics in the thread thus far aren't beetles or aquatic beetles. The first one is a naucoridae, which is a hemipteran, and yes the 2nd (I think 2nd) was a stinkbug. The last picture...
The ultimate sacrifice for your kids. I'm pretty sure in some species, the male's head is an inibitor to genetic material transfer. One reason while typically the female removes the male's head...
Yes the diffuser is usually just a pipe with a bunch of holes in it that lays across the bottom of the channel. So there is more at source diffusion of the effluent itself, and also spreads out the...
Getting a ccw permit is somewhat county specific in terms of the process and fees. Those living in Sacramento county, if you haven't applied already, you'll have to do so elsewhere. I'm fairly...
It still surprises me the wide array of flies those things will take. The last one I caught ate a red striper fly which really surprised me.
Most likely it is a splittail and they can get quite large for being a "minnow". It is used as a common testing species for water quality stuff here in CA, and some of the broodstock I've seen in...
Charlie,we need to get you out there one day when you're not too busy, we promise we won't make you row haha. I wish my first striper was that big as well, I think the first one I ever caught was a...
First outing for 2011 for me, been a busy year. Went to chase stripers on the American, lost my big flies, tied on some smaller ones. First fish of the year was a shad. No complaints here.
Yeah, temperature is important, but you need some time for the larva to get mature enough to molt into adults. Like many plants, insect growth can be predicted by environmental thermal energy input...
Make a stop at the local guide / fly shop, buy a couple flies, and chat em up at the register. They will give you the scoop on what's fishing good and individual flow conditions for the local...
Yeah pretty sure that's a german cockroach. The good news is that they prefer to live outside instead of inside unlike most of the other roaches we see. Probably flew inside coming to a a...
I used to never worry about lions til I walked by one 4 years ago. I still don't worry too much, as that one didn't try to eat me. I was quail hunting some lava draws in the burney area, ther were...