{Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} Re: Golden Stonefly

As promised, a picture of a White Fly aka White Miller (IMAG1295 is the best shot Dan). Kinda tricky getting a photo of these suckers.. I was lucky to find one in a spiderweb, so he was a little more cooperative than the flying flies. I did save him from his doom and he eventually flew away fine. The emergence wasn't super strong last night, although I did muse to Helen that might have been because our location was not ideal habitat. We fished the Needles for about an hour beforehand (caught a few of the predominant year class of smallmouth bass - all on my Crawdizzle!) and then moved up to the slow water above the rapids around 7:45 pm. We fished white boogle bugs with modest success, landing a few sunnies. I did have a big fish on briefly though. It was cool, she sipped my boogle bug like a trout. Had no idea of her size until I came tight. Helen and I had been trout fishing all afternoon and so I came tight to the fish like I was fishing a flying ant pattern. That wasn't a proper bass hookset and she twisted off after a few brief moments. I felt enough of her weight to guess her size at an easy 16"+.

Theory time! I wonder if the White Millers are white because of the lack of light in the sky when they emerge, and the occasional cloud backdrop. There was a cloud overcast during the entirety of my epidemiological study so evidence suggests. Additionally, They of the Conventional Wisdom do suggest that one use black surface flies at night.

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