The Field Journal

Naturals

Damselflies

Damselfly Life Stages

Hatch timing / abundance

Early summer migration to shore; a brief but intense window .
Also a summer searching food when fish are deep (with Dragonflies) .

Imitated by

Damselfly nymph patterns (slim, olive); fished with a slow retrieve toward shore.

Found in (waterbodies)

Peckhams Lake, Premier Lake, Rockbluff (Quartz) Lake and most Kootenay stillwaters.

Data & occurrence sources

Confirm and expand the Found in list and abundance with hard data — benthic-sample communities via CABIN, occurrence records via GBIF (roll up taxa per watershed) and iNaturalist, DNA-barcode IDs via BOLD. Access, licences and the FWA-segment join method are in .

Related

Dragonflies — the bigger, year-round stillwater nymph.
Match the Hatch (Stillwater) — fitting it into the day.

Where next

Keep moving

Match it Bloodworm (Cranberry Larvae) The larval half of the chironomid story — fished right on the bottom where bloodworms live. A quiet producer when the pupa bite is slow, especially early spring Reference Hatch charts Month-by-month guide to insect life and matching the hatch. Where it matters Summer Creek A recorded upper bull-river tributary with westslope cutthroat records and two small child waters: duncan-creek and ruault-creek. Fish it, if access allows, as Right now Current conditions This week's flows, shop reports, hatches, and closures — the live layer.