Hatch timing / abundance
- Nymphs present year-round (up to ~4 years as nymphs); a summer staple when fish hold deep .
- Summer tactic: full-sink line, big nymph retrieved toward shore .
Imitated by
- Dragonfly nymph patterns; Woolly Bugger as a close searching approximation.
Found in (waterbodies)
- North Star Lake, Premier Lake, Rockbluff (Quartz) Lake, Rosebud Lake and most Kootenay lakes.
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
- Hot-Weather Stillwater Tactics — the summer-deep playbook.
- Leeches — the other big summer mouthful.
