ElkHair
05-07-2004, 04:00 PM
All the talk about stones on the LR and BSF got me thinking about an experience I had on the Logan in January about 6 years ago. I used to fish the Logan religiously, having cut my dry fly teeth on it's beautiful browns and cutts. While I didn't spend much time there in the winter, I happened to be there one January day with a co-worker who was a newbie. It was cold, but not too cold - about 35-40 degrees. With the howling wind it felt like 20. I know, I know, balmy for the Logan. I set him up with a standard nymph rig and he managed to catch a few before high-tailing it to the truck to get warm.
I headed up to a run that always produced for me during the summer months using small dries and surveyed the river. About this same time a little snow started to fall and the sky became completely overcast, the wind stopped and the wind chill temp rose enough that I only had to break ice off my guides every 15 casts instead of every 5. Suddenly, there were rises everywhere in this pool - from it's head to tail. I started looking for bugs, having not seen any so far. Flying around and landing on me were what I could only describe as a black stonefly with gray wings, #16 to #14 in size. Are these what are referred to as snowflies, maybe the Logan Snowfly (Utacapnia logana)?
I headed up to a run that always produced for me during the summer months using small dries and surveyed the river. About this same time a little snow started to fall and the sky became completely overcast, the wind stopped and the wind chill temp rose enough that I only had to break ice off my guides every 15 casts instead of every 5. Suddenly, there were rises everywhere in this pool - from it's head to tail. I started looking for bugs, having not seen any so far. Flying around and landing on me were what I could only describe as a black stonefly with gray wings, #16 to #14 in size. Are these what are referred to as snowflies, maybe the Logan Snowfly (Utacapnia logana)?