Today I was on the phone with my good friend James Marsh discussing fly fishing for trout in the Southern states vs. fly fishing for trout in the Northern states; and there are differences. The major difference is that there appear to be far more trout anglers in the Northern states than in the Southern states. He pointed that numerous books that have been written about fly fishing in the North but very few written about fly fishing for trout in the South.
When thinking about fly selections, I am always thinking ahead by at least one month. Currently I am thinking about the hot summer months which are already here in the Smokies; and summer will soon be approaching the higher levations such as the Yellowstone National Park. I am thinking terrestrials right now.
The Director of Information and Technology, Tom Sliker, here at Trout University and his assistant Tommy have been working diligently to reorganize the TroutU web site so they decided to take a short vacation trip over the Memorial Day weekend. They went to the beautiful Pisgah National Forrest in Western North Carolina and spent some fun times at the Sliding Rock waterfalls.
We at Trout University have the privilege of co-linking with Flyfishingnc.com and since I have written about stoneflies for the summer, I decided to see what Flyfishingnc.com had to say about the subject. Answer: Plenty, so here is a reprint from flyfishingnc.com.
The Order Plecoptera, known as the Stone fly. The stoneflies are terrestrial as adults, but in the nymphal stages they are strictly aquatic, and most are restricted to flowing waters of relatively high oxygen concentrations due to their gills. That is why they are usually found in faster moving water.
The characteristics of the stoneflies are that they have two claws at the end of each leg and two sets of wing pads. They have two short, heavy tails, two antennae and the have the appearance of being "armor plated."
Stoneflies represent a big portion of the trout’s diet in the Smokies where there are species of all nine families of stoneflies. The most important species with the biggest populations of stoneflies present in the Smokies is the Periodidae whose size and shape vary only slightly.
Here is a trip that yhou will remember for a long time. visit some of the rivers that we have detailed here at the Trout University. This trip is being put together by Steve Mingle from the River's Edge Outfitters in Spruce Pine NC.
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