{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Gunpowder entomology (EPTs, others)

I love looking under rocks to see what the fish are eating. Last time I was at the Gunpowder, I kicked over some rocks and use my mesh net as a seine. I was surprised at how many big cranefly nymphs I found (about the width of a pencil and an inch long). I would imagine they are quite the treat for a hungry trout.

 

On Monday, February 17, 2014 5:13:36 AM UTC-5, TurbineBlade wrote:

Hello -- I fished the GP yesterday for 3 hours and didn't catch anything.   The turn outs where I like to park and fish were about 12" deep and sometimes higher with the plow drift, which required me to park where I really don't like to park and fish.  Oh well, beats sitting at home.  Swing, ticking nymphs on the bottom of good seams, streamers, etc. - nothing produced. So I threw the rod down and starting flipping rocks instead and came up with some great macro inverts --

 

If anyone knows these species better than I do please chime in -- I'm not a very good insect ID person beyond what I can figure out from the 'Orange' Voshnell Field Guide.  One thing I noticed is that many of the naturals were actually larger than I would have thought for this time of year (some of the mayfly nymphs were closer to my #18, which is a wet fly hook similar to most peoples' #20-22).  And the stoners, including that werid armored one, were big honkers -- up near #14-16.  Also, the length of the mayfly tails was quite a bit longer than I generall tie -- so lesson learned!  I guess I need to tie those RS2s with the "suck" fibbet tails. 

 

We ended up having a great time out there -- some common merganzers landed in front of where we were sampling inverts.  They probably did a much better job fishing than I did. 

 

Gene

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