Amongst the cookies......

[Larry S.]

....Stef brought to the UOTF Far North Tying Club meeting was her collection of bugs. Quite an interesting gathering of samples from local streams including the Logan and Blacksmith Fork drainages as well as some from the Green and Provo.

She is getting way too serious though. She started speaking Latin tonight. I wonder how you say Biscuits & Gravy in Latin? Or how about Eclaris Chocolatis Chocolatis?

She does have one of the best entomology books too. Don't try to put one over on her. She can ID any bug. Right down to the gonads!

[stef]

Thanks for your help Larry! Wasn't it you who told me how to locate a female nymph? Look for the one with it's mouth open!

But I'm not sure about that method...I saw plenty of mouths open tonight! Do you think it was caused by the stripping show courtesy of Brian?

[nightfish]

I know some of those stoneflies are as big as eclairs!

Here's an idea for your next tying session...everyone meet on a pre-determined stretch of water, get Stef to pickle some bugs for you, and then do a match the vial tying night. No cookie until you either correctly I.D. a bug or tie a replica.

[JayMorr]

I know some of those stoneflies are as big as eclairs!

Here's an idea for your next tying session...everyone meet on a pre-determined stretch of water, get Stef to pickle some bugs for you, and then do a match the vial tying night. No cookie until you either correctly I.D. a bug or tie a replica.

Great idea! A match the vial tying night would be a lot of fun.

JayMorr

[Larry S.]

Hmmm..................very interesting.

Would that be like building a ship in a bottle? ;o)

[Flyin' Brian]

interesting to check out the bugs. Thanks for bringing them in!
I haven't seined nearly as many different bugs as I saw last night, it was cool to see the bugs that I tie flies to represent.
And cookies are always nice!

[Crosby]

When you seined the BS- how many stones did you get into. What was the concentrations. I seined last night- the count was low on stretches that had always had many. I have some theorys on this, but I would like to do a few more samples tonight to justify them.

[stef]

Everybody knows there are NO stones on the BS!!!!

I don't own a seine. Just the pluck method. But you are definately on to something. LR (RHF) has 2x as many this year and BS (LHF) 1/2 the count.

Concentrations levels went something like 3 ft log dozen stones LR, one medium rock 6 stones on RHF, one medium rock 1 stone on LHF. All the above taken from similiar current water.

What gives?

[Crosby]

My sampling took place on the main BS- approx. 1 miles to 3 miles up the canyon- the stretch that the silt from 2 years ago covered. Want the shirt?

[stef]

YES!! I would love it!
I sent an email.

Silt. Hmmm...makes sense! Less habitat. Let me know how your sampling goes please! I would be very interested in what you find above.

[Crosby]

I'll give the shirt to the Frog man and he can give it to you.

[dsw]

In the past few years the Logan River has been a little slower than usual. Has it started to improve. I haven't been there for about 2 years, and I don't come up that way very often. Just curious.

[Teewinot]

Stef -- Where did you say you bought your color preserver.

Great flies by the way. That was definitely worth waiting for you to go get them.

[RAW]

Dang. Missed out on cookies again. I would like to see the bug collection someday.

As for the BS. I noticed the actual hatch wasn't as good last year. I assume the flush of silt two years ago?

I was fishing the Logan later that same year (silt flush) and talked with a guy who said he had just come from the BS and saw lots of dead 14 to 18-inch fish. Those would be good fish for the BS and so I thought maybe he was stretching as we are prone to do. I would think if the kill was enough, the size of the trout might be up this year? Could all be BS on the BS.

Crosby, you know my e-mail and you know the information I need. Right?

[nightfish]

Crosby,

The stones we've found have been Perlids & Goldens...no Pterynarcis so far, unless Stef got some on a solo trip. Seemed like good numbers on the LR though.

[Crosby]

Nightfish- I seined the big stones last night but just not as many as usually- all the other bugs showed up in lower numbers also- but they were there.
Raw ; the hatch last year was good but it was late and predominatley in 1 section. 18" fish are far and few between on the BS- not they are not there- just not in high numbers. I do have your email. I often wonder to myself about this hatch- I actually have much better days at other times of the year- I guess it's just the seeing of a brown acting like a school kid the first time he sees those Catholic girls in those plaid skirts.

[chris]

acting like a school kid the first time he sees those Catholic girls in those plaid skirts.

You had to go there, when I used to visit my now wife in Cali I would try to get her to pick me up at the airport in one of them outfits. Life is just a fantasy......

[Crosby]

Chris- I was there- then they came to our school in 9th grade and quit wearing them. )0:

[dsw]

Sometimes we dream of plaid skirts, Princess Leigha(sp), amazon women, large trout on a small stream that I own and no one else fishes........

I had better get back to work....