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On Stream entomology for the Flyfisher with Don Baylor.***

April 3, 2010, 10am, $30

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***DON BAYLOR – BRIEF BIOGRAPHY

            Don taught English at Stroudsburg High School for 30 years.  He has an M.S. in aquatic biology, and since 1980 has worked as a biologist with Aquatic Resource Consulting.  He has been involved in stream baseline and monitoring studies of fishes and macroinvertebrates throughout the Northeast.  A fly fisherman and tyer since age 11, Don has published the booklet Pocono Hatches an article in Rod & Reel, and over 60 technical reports for Aquatic Resource Consulting.  He has worked as a fly tying instructor and taught Entomology for Fly Fisherman at East Stroudsburg University.  He served as an instructor in fly fishing seminars at Kettle Creek Lodge and the International Fly Tying Symposium. He teaches fly fishing at Indian Springs on the upper Delaware River and presents slide programs on trout stream ecology and entomology, fly fishing techniques, and destinations such as Montana, Colorado, Alaska, and northern Quebec.

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Spring Casting Tune up. April 10, 2010. 2pm

Rain date April 11___________________________________________________

Program TBA

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Cub Scout Pack 72

April 27 @ 6pm

Join the Little Lehigh Flyfishers to provide a Fly Fishing, casting and tying demonstration.

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May 2, 2009, 2pm Leader Construction.

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Long Island Flyrodders, Inc., June 1, 2010

Fishing The Little Lehigh

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Al Miller Memorial Cookout, June 20

Thanks to the following donors to the Al Miller Memorial.

Michael	Cawthray
Francis	Gough
Cathy A. & David Joe	Fritz
William C. & Carlette Dee	Dunstan
Wendell S.	Ozefovich
Robert	Sotak
Ronald A.	Rejician
Michael P. & Donna K.	Fryer
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Jonathan	Rohrbach
Robert	Pluta
Valence P.	Giuliani
Robert T. & Virginia L.	Giuliani
Michael	Johnson Architect
Thomas H. & Barbara A.	Drayer
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Mr. Allen G. & Mrs. Elmira	Miller
Miller & Gibbs
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Trout Unlimited Chapter 468	SE Montgomery County
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Cameron T.	Shipman
David P.	Bittner
Alan L. & Patricia E.	Mittleman
Michael Joseph	McIntyre
Jeffrey A. & Susan K.	Robinson
Mario A. & Eleanor	Spagnoletti
Show May & Raymond C.	Heimbuch
Marie & Stephen	Rockovits
Arthur G.	Murray
Karen G. & Paul L.	Yannas

Please be Rod's guest at the Memorial picnic on June 20. RSVP please.

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September 11 and 12, 2010, Gary Borger

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Al Miller 1923-2008

 Click here to watch Al tie his "Rat"

Thanks Underwater Oz

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Quarterly Stream Summary

JANUARY

Winter trout tend to keep to the bottom of deep pools and become more

active during midday. Fish the foot of long shallow runs. Some hatches

do occur, for example midges and stoneflies. Try weighted nymphs or slow streamers. 

Sometimes the most effective nymph patterns...[imitate]...the largest nymph in the stream. 

Try Scuds, Cressbugs, Egg patterns, Dons’ Sculpin, Crawfish & wooley buggers.

Water temperatures in January usually remain in the low forties. Flow is around 85 cfs, 2.5 feet 

above datum. We start seeing concentrations of Snowflies.

FEBRUARY

In early February flow is normally 90 cfs and around forty degrees. 

Snowflies become apparent after 2pm. Mid February brings Presidents Day, 

flow around 100 cfs, water temperatures in the low 40's and Baetis. 

Normal flow increases to 110 cfs at the end of the month.

 Patterns include Al's Rat, Beadheads, Black Stoneflies, Blue Winged Olives, Cranefles, 

Crawfish, Globugs, Gold Ribbed Hares Ear, Honeybugs, Inchworms, Pheasant Tails, Picket Pins, 

Snowflies, Dons’ Sculpin, Sucker Spawn, Soft Hackles, Turkey Nymphs and Wonder Nymphs. 

Early February also brings #18 Earley Black Stoneflies-(Capnia vernalis)

Traditionalists expect these guys to show up in March but, we often see our 

first Early Black Stoneflies in early February. They hatch in the mornings 

and afternoons. Emerge by crawling on to land, emergent rocks, and foliage. 

This little guy is 9mm long, the wing protrudes 4mm past abdomen. I tie 

these little guys as follows:

I use a size 18, Mustad 94840 hook.

Start to wrap black 12/0 Giorgio Benecchi thread three hook eye lengths from 

the eye & wrap to the bend.

Dub black mole sparsely, wrap tightly to where you began the thread. Cover 1 

hook eye length. In front of body w/ thread. Tie in Black rooster hackle It 

can be a bit longer than normal, make 2 winds of hackle, tie off & trim top 

& bottom. Cover the hook eye in front of the hackle w/ thread. 

For the wing 

take a black hen hackle & tie it wonder wing style. The tip of the wing 

should Extend the length of the hook gap behind the abdomen. Lacquer the 

head and wing. I believe these little guys are more important to the angler 

than they are to the fish.

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MARCH

The first part of March brings flow around 110 cfs, temperatures in the mid 

fortys and the first Robins of the season. 

Mid March brings flow of 125cfs which will increase to around 128cfs at the end 

of the month.

Try Al's Rat, Griffiths Gnat, Honeybugs, Honeybug Inchworms, Scuds, Cressbugs, 

Snowfies, Globugs, Sucker Spawn, Beadheads, Brassies, Black Stoneflies, 

Blue Winged Olives (18 & 24’S), Cranefles, Little Black Stoneflies, Pheasant Tails, 

Crawfish, Elk Hair Caddis, Gold Ribbed Hares Ear, Dons’ Sculpin and Soft Hackles. 

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Mayfly duns and spinners

Last quarter we discussed mayfly nymphs in the "cushion" and emergers just under the film. Please note we didn't discuss fishing the water between the cushion and the film., Most feeding occurs within a foot of the cushion or a foot of the film.

The helpless emergers struggle to escape the nymphal shuck as they try to penetrate the surface film. Upon escaping the nymphal shuck and getting through the film, the insect becomes a "dun."

Picture courtesy of Gary Borger

A dun is a sexually immature adult mayfly. It looks like an adult but is unable to reproduce

Duns are usually dull in coloration. They look like little sailboats as they ride the top of the film. Duns ride the top of the surface film until their wings dry, at which time they take off (assuming they aren't eaten by a trout) for the foliage. You can tell the fish are taking duns by the classic "simple" rise form.

Remember the fish sees the dun entering its window, drops back to intercept it, then usually returns to its lie. You need to cast upstream of the rise form to allow for this and for the speed of the current moving the rise form. If you don't your casts will be downstream of the lie and the trout won't see your fly!

The duns that escape the hungry trout, fly to the foliage. Here they spend anywhere from a few hours to a day or two. Their skin dries and splits open allowing the sexually mature adult called a spinner to emerge. Spinners have the silhouette of a dun but they're more "shiny" and translucent than a dun. The spinners fly to the water, mate and deposit their eggs. The spinners then fall into the surface film and die.

Picture courtesy of Gary Borger

Please note, the emerger and spinner can't get away. I believe wild trout prefer emergers and spinners because they can feed energy efficiently.

You can usually tell fish are taking an organism that can't get away by the "dimpling" rise form. This rise form occurs when the trout is just below the surface film intercepting helpless organisms trying to penetrate the film as they drift down stream. You are seeing the displacement of water as the trout feeds.

When your looking for rise forms, throw your polaroid's in the creek. Polaroid's eliminate glare. I use the glare. It provides a texture to the water. Any change in the texture has to be a fish. When you see the rise form put on the polaroid's, look into the water and spot the fish.

During this discussion of mayflies, we discussed fishing the cushion. We also discussed fishing under the film, on top of the film and in the film. We didn't spend any time fishing between the cushion and the film.

 Next newsletter we will discuss diptera including Crane flies and midges.