The March Brown Mayfly is sort of a ghost hatch on the Lower Yuba. some years you'd never know they exist and the next year there they a...

As they used to say in the TV show Dragnet. "Just the facts, Maam" Here's some Chironomid facts and Tips to get us started wi...

For most of us the thought of chironomids just makes us shake our head and wonder why. When we contemplate tossing a tiny midge pattern in...

There seems to be some debate as to what genus that the larger Gray or Slate colored mayflies we come across on the Lower Yuba really are. T...

Bugs - The Hydropsyche Caddis Each year I always look forward to summer and the hydropscyche caddis hatches. This bug is also commonl...

On the Lower Yuba River in years when we have drought conditions, as we have had late this spring and early summer, there is a hatch of bug...

When I think of the Mothers Day Caddis which is the American Grannom of the Brachycentrdae family of caddisfly, I think of the day I had ...

March Brown Scientific Names: Rhithrogena morrisoni, R. hageni Common Names: March brown, western March brown NYMPH SIZE: 8-12 mm (5...

Last year Blake Larsen and I had dropped my drift boat into the Lower Yuba River and I was rowing upstream to a large eddy pool where we t...

On the Lower Yuba River we have been seeing glimpses of what is coming as the season progresses and the temperatures start to warm up. On w...

Skwala Pattern Notes When matching the Lower Yuba River Skwalas remember that the bugs here locally are different in color than their cousi...