Wandering Aimlessly Hellgrammite to Dobsonfly

by Phil Burkhouse

This week’s column is devoted to one of many anglers’ favorite insects, the hellgrammite.  If you check out the picture of the hellgrammite that has transformed into an adult dobsonfly, several words might come to mind, such as fearsome and vicious.  If you knew, as most anglers already know, that a pinch from a hellgrammite’s sharp mandibles or tusks can inflict pain and draw blood on humans, you might prefer to leave them alone.  If you knew how they wriggle around on a hook and cause bass and other denizens of the deep to throw caution to the wind and grab them, you would lose your fear and quickly, but carefully, search them out to be used as prized bait.

(Full story in the Cameron County Echo on the news stand)

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