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Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
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Item Title
Close-up of a hellgrammite. [Photo]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Eiler, Terry
Created/Published
July 05, 1997
Notes
Event: Seining for hellgrammites on Coal River.
Seining is a technique which involves raising rocks and allowing the water to carry what's underneath into the net held downstream.
Hellgramites, also known as grampus, are the larva of the dobson fly, and are favored by the small-mouthed bass in Coal River.
Subjects
Summer
July
Fishing
Hellgrammites
Grampus
Dobson flies
Photo
Ethnography
Photographs
Trap Stewart Hole
Edwight, WV
Object Type
Medium
35 mm Color Slide
Language
English
Call Number
CRF-TE-C050-14
Part of
The Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afccmns tec05014
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.tec05014