Sunny summer days and little Yellow Sallies

You see them everywhere - maybe not in blizzard numbers but usually at least a few - all summer long.

They start while salmonflies are on the water in June and they last, most years, well into September, depending on how chilly the nights get.

You'll often find more of them clinging to streamside willows and tall grass than you'll see on the water. When they're ready, you'll see the egg-layers flying almost haphazardly over the stream, then dropping to shed their cargo of eggs into rifled water.

There are at least five separate species that I've identified on the Bitterroot that qualify as Yel...