Signs of summer: Salmonflies are on!

It's big bug time on the Deschutes, the most wonderful time of the year.

Signs of summer: Salmonflies are on!
CFS Fellow Ariana captured this one near Maupin the other day. A delicious duo of Pteronarcys californica, a salmonfly, with a golden stonefly (Hesperoperla pacifica) hitching a ride.

Salmonflies and golden stones are making their annual emergence on the Deschutes, driving fish wild and anglers even wilder. It's the time of the year when the big redsides lose all modesty and stealth and feed with abandon.