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Nymph of a golden stonefly, Plecoptera, Perlidae Dinotoperla imago (adult) (Gripopterygidae: Dinotoperlinae) Stoneflies have a generalized anatomy, with few specialized features compared to other insects. They have simple mouthparts with chewing mandibles, long, multiple-segmented antennae, large compound eyes, and two or three ocelli. The legs ...
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It is a popular and widely used pattern for freshwater game fish, particularly trout and grayling. Large streamer versions are also used for winter steelhead and Atlantic salmon . In Royal Coachman – The Lore and Legends of Fly-Fishing (1999) Paul Schullery describes the Royal Coachman:
Insects in this family are small to medium-sized, ranging from 6 to 20 mm [6] or 10 to 20 mm [10] and have a distinct green colour for their wings, which gives the common name green stoneflies. [3] They can also be yellow, and fly fishermen commonly refer to them as yellow sallflies or yellow sallies . [ 11 ]
Amphinemura nymph.. The Nemouridae are a family of stoneflies containing more than 700 described species, occurring primarily in the Holarctic region. [1] [2] Members of this family are commonly known as spring stoneflies or brown stoneflies.
As anglers in both Europe and the U.S. gained exposure to the advantages of tube flies, more patterns emerged and more species of game fish were targeted with tube style flies. The use of tube flies for casting to salmon and steelhead in the Puget Sound region was first documented in Fly Fishing for Pacific Salmon (Ferguson, Johnson, Trotter ...
Salmon fly patterns (not to be confused with flies for Atlantic Salmon) are an important collection of artificial flies used by fly anglers to imitate nymphal and adult forms of Pteronarcys californica a giant stonefly or salmon fly.