are there salmon flies on the lower yuba? i swear i saw one today
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salmonflies on the yuba
are there salmon flies on the lower yuba? i swear i saw one today
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Skwala stones look a lot like giant stones (salmonflies). Probably saw those.
_SHig
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yea, thats what i figured. although i have seen alot of skwalas on the yuba and this bug was alot more orange and was like a helicopter coming in. made most of the skwalas i have seen on the yuba look like gnats.
exhibit A (although color and size not greatly displayed here)
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Cool! Bring 'em on! :^)
_SHig
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Medfly, could you take a measurement from your rod butt to the reel seat for reference?
Sure looks like a Salmonfly.
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Jake: Hit it.
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That is a Pteronarcys Californica for sure, seems to be a male. Books and experts give all sorts of sizes and rules to the size and color of bugs, but I have proved them wrong on more than a dozen times. You can't put rules and limits on mother nature - she will break them every time. For example our Velma May here on the MMFR looks nothing like the ones
on the NFFR. Great photo, I live for the big bug.
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sweet, thanks for the info. that bug landed there and hung out. was mesmerized for a bit. it then took flight across the water. seeing this thing fly was incredible. it was massive. i cant even imagine seeing a complete hatch of these things carpeting a river, ornamenting the trees. i gotta get to one of those soon.
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Salmon Flies & Hex
I had a Salmon Fly land on my hat while guiding there last week. I thought the same thing. Where did this come from? First one I had ever seen there. Then later that afternoon I watched a Hex float down a flat. What is going on. Wished more of those types of bugs we around.
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are you sure its not a golden stone? There are quite a few on the yuba, and you don't hear about salmon flies on the yuba. But who knows? it could be a salmon fly.
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Bugs migrate thats for sure. I can only imagine what those fish will be like if a salmonfly hatch takes hold in the Yuba.
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