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Stone Fly Dry Fishing Fly Patterns
The Stone Fly is number 3 of the 3 most important flies to
the Fly Fisherman. This fly lives in the cooler mountain streams that have a
high oxygen content and needs flowing water to live.
After mating the female will return to the water to deposit her eggs on the water in clusters or will crawl under the water and deposit the eggs on vegetation on the bottom of the stream. Stone Flies do not swarm and do not fly very well, so the egg laying process consists of a single female thrashing about on the surface of the water depositing her eggs and usually attracting several trout to the scene of the commotion. There is some discussion that this behavior explains why a Steelhead will take a dry fly after it returns to fresh water. Adult Stone Flies usually die during the mid to late summer. Some Dry Fishing Fly Patterns that imitate the Stone Fly are:
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