| Mar
15 - Apr 15 |
Skwalla
Stonefly (Skwalia Paralaila)# 10 Olive Stone use
lowprofile pattern (olive bullethead) |
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Nomoridae
(#14), Louctridne (#12) Little Brown/Black Stonefly use
brown/black bodied bulletheads. |
| Apr 1 - Apr 30 |
Skwalia Stonefly on Clark
Fork and Rock Creek |
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Blue
Winged Olive (Baetis)#16,18 olive bodied mayfly
parachutes, cripples, thorax - with olive dubbing |
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Grey
Drake (Ameletus) #12 mayfly on Clark Fork and Bitterroot,Yellowish/brown body, huge wing, use deerhair
post parachute, try fast stripping a skinny, slender #10 prince/P.T nymph |
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March
Brown (Rithrogena Morrisoni) #14 mayfly on Rock Creek and
Blackfoot, use deerhair post parachute, dead drift hare's
ear nymphs (looks like grey drake) |
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Gray
Caddis (Brachycentrus)#16 elk hair or goddard |
| May
1 - May 31 |
Blue
Winged Olive continue sporatically (good on cloudy days)
throughout this month on all four main rivers. |
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Salmonfly (Pteronercys)#6 orange stonefly, starts 2nd to 3rd week
of this month on Rock Creek |
| June
1 - June 30 |
Salmonfly
on Blackfoot and some on Clark Fork and Bitterroot |
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Golden
Stonefly (Calinsuria)#8-10 golden bodied stonefly -on all
four main rivers - use yellow stimi's and madom X's |
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Pale
Morning Dun (Ephomerella lnfrequens) Creamish-bodied
#14-16 mayfly --hatches in early afternoon-- try
cripples, parachutes, and thoraxes |
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Pale
Evening Dun (Hoptagenia/Eporous) Yellowish bodied mayfly
--hatches in the early evening-- same patterns as PMD |
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Green
Drake (Ephomerelia Grandis/Drunelia) #10 mayfly- fat dark
green body -dark, dark grey wings - use Lawson's paradrake, big cripples, and fat bodied chutes |
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Caddia (Hydropsyche)tan and olive caddis #12-16, use elk-hairs,
goddards, and LaFontaine's caddis pupa emerger |
| July 1 - July 31 |
Goldens
continue on Blackfoot - use stimi's PMD, PED continue on
all four main rivers |
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Hoppers (Grasshopperidea)use #6-10 parachute hoppers |
| Aug
1 - Aug 31 |
Hoppers
continue |
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Trico's (Tricorythode)last week of this month - use #20-
22 thread bodied parachutes |
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Blue
winged Olives in the last couple of weeks |
| Sep
1 - Sep 30 |
Trico's
continue into the first couple of weeks |
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Blue
Winged Olives start up again a one/two weeks into this
month - use same patterns as above |
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Mahogany Dun (Paraleptaphlebia)
#14-16 purplish/ brown bodied mayfly - start about the same time as
the Baetis (2nd or third week)- use rust bodied parachutes, wulffs,
and cripples |
| Oct 1 - Oct 31 |
Mahoganies, Baetis
continue - great midge action late Oct |
| Nov 1 - Nov 30 |
Midges continue throughout
this month on warmer days especially |
