Look What We Found!

[Zach Matthews]

Andrew Wright and I took another stab at the Flint River this morning; still blown out from last week’s 4″ of rain, I’m afraid.  I’m doing an article on shoal bass and these rains are messing up my schedule pretty bad.

Anyway, check this out!

According to Wikipedia, this is a female dobsonfly, the adult of the hellgrammite larva.  You can tell she’s female by her “short” pincers, which were still as big as toothpicks.  I saw her struggling on the water and we rescued her.

Adult dobsonflies sadly live only about a week after emerging, so she’s not long for this world anyway, but I still thought this was really cool.

That fly, by the way, was the biggest I had; this thing was probably over four inches long.

Zach

[cole m.]

Zach, this is the man you need to talk to about Shoal Bass.

http://www.drewgregory.com
http://www.riverbassin.com

Tell him Cole gave you the info.

[Zach Matthews]

Thanks Cole –

I think I have the writing pretty well covered up at this point, although I have a couple scientists to interview.

[anonymous]

Great find on the adult Dobson – Zach

Amazing looking critter:)))

[Mike Anderson]

They bite!

[cole m.]

Zach, right on. Let me know when the article will be out as I would love to read it.

[Michael Exl]

Mmmmm….smallie food.

[T. Wiles]

I had one of those beasts land on my back while paddling in the canoe at dark with a headlamp.

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