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    Bug ID - East Texas

    Anyone know what this is? First one I've seen in 43 years...

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    #2
    Dobsonfly

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      #3
      Originally posted by lab man View Post
      Dobsonfly
      Yep that's it. Thanks. I guess I had never seen one that I can remember.

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        #4
        Good fishbait, but don't let him get you with those front end thingamabobs!

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          #5
          Don’t bring it with you tomorrow. Please.

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            #6
            At least 1 unbranched antler. He's legal and needs to go.

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              #7
              Dobsonfly

              ….Use the larvae stage for fish bait

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                #8
                Originally posted by Gumbo Man View Post
                Don’t bring it with you tomorrow. Please.
                But that'll be more entertaining than any massage.

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                  #9
                  I caught a hellgrammite in the creek last weekend. It was the size of a medium shrimp. Super cool critters.

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                    #10
                    Yep Dobsonfly and larval stage is helgramite.

                    Both bite HARD

                    Helgramite is good fish bait

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                      #11
                      We used to turn over rocks in the brazos as kids to catch helgramites to put on the yellow cat lines. They’ll live forever in a bait bucket with damp burlap sack wadded up in it.

                      Helgramite is the larval stage of a Dobson fly like mentioned above.

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                        #12
                        Mayfly on steroids.

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                          #13
                          Wonder what they would eat, with holders like that? Gotta be worse than they are.

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                            #14
                            Years ago, at my mother's previous house, she had a bunch of those things. I had never seen them before. What we always found odd about those things, besides how they look. We only found them on one side of the house, and the same side of the building behind the house. Both walls those critters like to hang out on, were walls facing to the, east. You would never find them on any other wall, or any place but those two east walls. We never found them on trees or anything else around the area.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Texas Grown View Post
                              Wonder what they would eat, with holders like that? D
                              Think the pinchers on a Dobson fly are for mating. I also think they don’t live long in that stage.

                              In their larval stage, I think they live 3 years in the river.

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