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How to pronounce stonefly in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms plecopteran, stone fly
Type of insect

Examples of stonefly

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If you are using large dry flies for the stonefly hatch, cast tight to the bank.
From the thenewstribune.com
Stonefly patterns, streamers, baetis and blue-wing olives working for fly guys.
From the sacbee.com
Copper Johns, stonefly nymphs and crystal buggers continue to be top producers.
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From the tip of the abdomen of stonefly larva you'll see two tail-like filaments.
From the post-gazette.com
Fly fishing was a bit slow but stonefly nymphs and crystal buggers worked best.
From the sacbee.com
Casting a black stonefly nymph, I saw the flash of a fish and lifted the rod.
From the jsonline.com
Rudd said large stonefly nymphs are beginning to stir in the reaches below Parshall.
From the denverpost.com
The fishing has been fair to good, with most anglers nymphing with stonefly patterns.
From the thenewstribune.com
They were also being taken on egg patterns, alevins, and stonefly nymphs.
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  • Plecoptera are an order of insects, commonly known as stoneflies. There are some 3,497 described species worldwide , and new ones are still being discovered. Although stoneflies are found worldwide, they are absent from Antarctica . ...
  • (STONEFLIES) (Order Plecoptera)- The big "salmon fly" which Ernest Schweibert described as flying Like a wounded helicopter, are important in rivers, but the hatch occurs only once each season, progressing upriver as temperatures climb. ...
  • (Stoneflies) Aquatic insects of the order Plecoptera, tied and fished as nymphs and wet and dry flies.
  • Very important aquatic insect; nymph lives for one to three years, depending on species; most species hatch out by crawling to the shoreline and emerging from its nymphal case above the surface, thus adults are available to trout only along shoreline and around midstream obstructions; adult has ...