Terrestrial, how many do you know????

[Mike McKeown]

So I am looking to find a good resource for terrestrials. I would love a good book, but right now I will take web links, photos, anything really…

What have we got…
Ants, normal and flying.
Hoppers
Beetles
Dragons and Damsel
Bees
Crickets

Any help and photos and stuffsss would be great.

let me edit in the additional ones.
Cicadas
Moths
Spiders

[Neal Osborn]

http://www.warmwaterflytyer.com/patterns5.asp

[Mike McKeown]

Look what I found…

http://www.fishing.net.nz/asp_forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=15286
and theres that Traveler…

[Daryl Human]

What about Stoneflies and inch worms?

[regan c. kenyon jr.]

I don’t want to get all technical here, but dragons and damsels and stoneflies are not terrestrials.   Neither are all moths in fact.  Some are aquatic and imitated well with a woolly worm sans tag.

As for terrestrials, try:

http://www.amazon.com/Terrestrials-Approach-Fishing-Synthetic-Materials/dp/0811734366/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231369077&sr=8-1

As I understand it, that’s the Terrestrial Bible.  A google search on Harrison Steeves may reveal more.  Here’s what I found:

http://www.geocities.com/gold_trout/articles/Terrestrials101.htm

I always like a good lacquered ant fished as a wet fly.

[Daryl Human]

Stoneflies and inch worms are not terrestrials, no!
But I think they are relevant to what Mike is after.

If I’m correct, I think he is after the adult stage of the bigger type of insects found in stream side vegetation – dont know. Mike?

[Mike McKeown]

I don’t want to get all technical here, but dragons and damsels and stoneflies are not terrestrials.   Neither are all moths in fact.

You’re right, but they are not a pettern we seldom ty and fish, I think because the spend so long away from the river between hatching and laying…

So lets say patterns that are not normaly represented as Dry Flies??

[regan c. kenyon jr.]

Around these parts, we have the big three: mays, caddis and stones, and then, supposedly, everything else.  In my area, the big three are really mays, caddis and diptera, and stones fall into the everything else category.  I think its just too hot for them around here to exist in large numbers.  A couple rivers have good amount, but gotta go North and up in altitude.  I’m more likely to stumble on a cranefly “hatch” than a stonefly “hatch.”  Are stones not that prevalent in SA?

Do you know about http://www.flyanglersonline.com?  They have a pretty extensive step-by-step pattern archive.  I’m sure you’ll find some beetles, dragons, damsels, etc. there.

Are you looking specifically for dry patterns?  Try the madame x.  I think it covers a lot of your not so usual floating suspects.

http://flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw2/111306fotw.php

This one looked particularly terrestrial/stoney http://flyanglersonline.com/flytying/fotw/81098fotw.php

[Rob Snowhite]

the best and most creative i’ve EVER come across were by bill skilton.

very creative and innovative. he completely changed my views on synthetics and terestrials.

he just put his book on cd format which i made a picture of here:

what i’ve made since meeting bill:

[Neal Osborn]

Rob – thanks for the link to Bill’s CD/book.

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