{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Red Efts at little stoney creek -- government shutdown newts!!! pseudo report 10-13-13

Hey!  Got to hit little stoney again yesterday and also quickly hit passage creek on the way home.  We went with a couple of friends and even with the weather, I think everyone enjoyed the trip!  ;) 

 

Brookies were hitting pretty well on the usual stuff -- nothing too interesting to add other than a note about how pretty these fish really are.  No evidence of spawning, so no one need worry. 

 

Check out the Newts!!!  It was rainy, nasty weather most of the day which the amphibians love.  I've captured and raised many of the "mole" salamanders in this kind of weather, and there are probably many of you who've seen spotted salamanders and maybe tigers wandering the streets during the rain....particularly you folks who live out of the city a bit in wooded areas.   I had some egg masses of spotteds years ago that were fun to raise, and some adult marbleds (they don't lay egg masses in water like spotteds, you have to flip logs and get lucky ;)).  Soo cool!

 

If you love trout entomology and all that "larval instar" and "dun-spinner" crap, you have to love these newts.  They're water-borne, then have a terrestrial juvenile stage as the "red eft" (see the pretty orange picture there), and then an aquatic adult stage later on.  if this isn't cool, I don't know what is.  Very cool to run into these guys out there.  I used to have a closet full of salamanders and kept my place at 64F 24/7, but I doubt Beth would put up with it nowadays. 

 

If you're bored with newts you're bored with life people!!! 

 

Gene

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