Caught a stonefly nymph

[midnightmoonlight 0]

Well I got skunked yesterday. The rivers and brooks havent gotten stocked yet but I want to get out there. While I was fishing a size 20 midge I thought I caught a leaf or stick. When I went to clean the it off of the hook I found a large stonefly nymph stuck right on the hook. Black with a green belly. I tied on something similar to it and still got nothing. Good thing is at least my midge I was fishing was at the right depth and I brought it home to make some flies to match it.

 

Anyone else catch bug before? I cant be the first

[trizkid 0]

i was fishing the current last week and came up with a small caddis larva on my glo bug

[riffleriversteelheadslayer 0]

my wife was fishing a dragon fly I hadtied for some bass in one of our favorite lakes well to make a long story short she casted it out was letting it sit on the surface and a real one came down and tried mating it well when she lifted the line it got tangled in the tippit so the last thing that dragonfly mated was a foam fly

[Flytyer14 0]

Wow that's an interesting story.

[Brian Brown75 0]

i caught a dead trout once, i guess i snagged it

[Flytyer14 0]

LOL, no offense intended, but that's hilarious.

[letumgo 0]

Are you sure it was a stone fly nymph? The colors make me think it was a Green Caddis Larva. Here are a couple photos of the bug I am thinking of. These little guys have a bright green belly and black back.

 

Green Caddis Larva (Rhyacophilidae)

also known as: Green Sedge, Rock Worm

[BigDaddyHub 0]

I've often hauled out BIG hellgrammites that attacked small craw patterns and baitfish patterns when bouncing the boulders in runs of a few of my smallie streams. They'll eat anything , I tell ya!

[midnightmoonlight 0]

I guess it may have been the cadis larva. Its about an inch and a half long black on the top and a greenish black belly. Some one said it probably tried to eat the small midge I was fishing with.

 

Stonefly and cadis are very similar from what I can tell from the photo

[smallieFanatic 0]

stonefly and cadis are very similar from what I can tell from the photo

 

Well--they are little different

Stonefly Nymph

Caddis larva

[midnightmoonlight 0]

deffinately a cadis I would say they are alot different

[fairwxflyfish 0]

caught this on a small nymph

 

 

 

 

[gpd4 0]

Stick Bass, Tree Trout, Rockfish...I catch 'em all the time. Generally none worth keeping.

 

 

[mnorton 0]

guys love the photos you posted in this

 

mike