Trout food

[Arlen]

Waco, your bug is a net-winged midge larva. One of the strangest bugs around here, in my humble opinion.

Here's a larger in-water picture that I took a few years ago.

 

[waco]

Oh yeah thats the same bug!

 

[desertbull]

Just got home from the Res, my guess was Daphnia, aka-"Water Fleas"...nise specimen Sinkline!

 

[brandon4455]

nice pic arlen those are some weird bugs!!

 

[Arlen]

Definitely weird. I had never heard of them until I went looking for them for a project. As closely related as they are to "standard" midges (chironomids), you would think the larvae would be similar. But the difference is like night and day.

 

[brandon4455]

might have to try an imitation sometime,probably not easy and very small but looks like trout food to me! except on the McKenzie... the fish in that river pay no attention whatsoever to midges.

 

[waco]

What about this bug!? Would a trout eat it? I don't think would be too hard to tie!! :think:

 

[brandon4455]

yes, some trout do eat craneflies, and their larva i believe

 

[Arlen]

It's a crane fly. Some of them are aquatic, but that one is not. It's larvae burrow into the ground and damage lawns.

Fish will eat both the larvae and the adults of the aquatic type, which are much smaller than the one in your hand. Try skating an adult imitation across the water at dusk during the summer.

 

[waco]

And this one?

 

[steelhead1]

Looks like a salmon fly

 

[brandon4455]

that is a salmonfly..where did you see that at?

 

[Van]

Im guessing he was looking at his flies and fishing pics in the pictures folder on his pc. lol

 

[waco]

Nope that was yesterday!

 

[steelhead_slayer]

Wow! Early one

 

[brandon4455]

very early.. hatch may be early this year? or just a retard salmnofly?

 

[eggs]

We saw a a good amount of those this weekend flybum ... we were wondering what type of yellow bellied stone fly we were hanging out with!

 

[Arlen]

Yellow Sally????
(Where's our resident bug geek to verify?)

He's probably off playing with spiders somewhere.

But if you were to think, oh, say "Skwala", you might just be on the right track.

 

[FlyBum]

He's probably off playing with spiders somewhere.

But if you were to think, oh, say "Skwala", you might just be on the right track.

I was thinking that too, but on the lower D?? Ya, most likely.....

 

[Arlen]

They're in most Oregon--and Northwest, for that matter--rivers, but don't get much press except where they are very abundant. And you wouldn't really be wrong to call them a "Yellow Sally" or "Little Yellow Stonefly", which are catch-all terms for a group of stoneflies that are small-to-medium, and, well, yellow(ish). But Skwalas have enough of a reputation that calling them by their specific name is a bit more informative, I think.