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Index of Subjects Sounds like a phantom crane fly, Bittacomorpha claviceps (family Ptychopteridae). Steve Quoting Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com>: > Hi All > This afternoon being cloudy and wet and not fit to > garden I went over to the river to sit and watch. When > the sun came out a fly something in the order of a > damsel fly came by. First I thought it was something > being blowing in the wind but then I realise it was > going againt the wind. > It was damsel fly size but all legs and not much of a > body. The legs were black with white stripes around > them. Pretty thing. Long - made it look like a bundle > of legs. Latter I saw several more. > The flies known to anglers as "Yellow Sallies" had > also started to hatch - only saw a couple of them > sitting on a branch. Prehaps they will deposit their > eggs this evening. > Also a mayfly with a claret body. The inspiration for > Mr Cowans popular fly "Dark Montreal" Good fish food. > Once after I caught a fish a fellow angler asked what > fly I had used. I replied my version of a Montreal. He > looked at it and said - Well at least one of the > suburbs! > Enjoy the Loon Count > Paul >
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