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Stone Flies (Plecoptera)           stone flies are primitive insects, fossils show that they have existed for 220 million years; stone flies generally represent a much smaller percentage of the trout's diet than do May flies and caddis flies.  This type of generality can be quite misleading however, forever if stone flies represented less than 10  percent of the trout's diet on a particular stream, it is quite possible to arrive on the... Read More

It may not be apparent to the casual observer, or even to the novice fly fisherman, but beneath the stark beauty of a tumbling trout stream there lives a complex, thriving community of life.  This community of microscopic organisms, aquatic insects, and fishes, is quite intricate.  Each form of life, from the tiniest to the largest, is interlinked and dependent upon the other for survival.  Scientists call these communities ecosystems, food chains, or food webs.     &nb... Read More

This method has been described by some as the repeated series of leisering lifts used to fish the water.  That is a fair description and while it does not require the preciseness of presentation of the lift in order to be more than marginally effective, the artificial must be a fair to good imitation of a natural found in the stretch being fished.     In fishing either method, the line used must be one that takes the fly down very quickly.  If the botton is relativ... Read More