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Originally Posted by Greene's Basin Girl
Has anyone found any hellgrammites? My father use to fish with them in the 50's and 60's.
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Hellgrammites are usually found in running water where there are boulder, rocks and gravel for them to hide under similar to crayfish. Not found in the lake that often unless there is some sort of current.
They are harvested by using a cheese cloth net downstream of a person tumbling the rocks and boulders up stream and they get caught in the net before they can get back down to the bottom.
When I first got into fishing I used them a lot, we used to call them "Caviar for Bass" they love'em.
I have see people (women) eat Hellgrammites as part of there daily diet right at the moment that they catch them. I can't imagine eating one myself.
Once in a great while you can find one them as fully developed adult.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobsonfly
Crayfish:
I still find plenty of fish with crayfish that they spit out when caught, but not as many as in years past. I would not be surprised if the decline in crayfish populations is directly related to the explosion of the rock bass population.