Lateral view of a Male Baetis (Baetidae) (Blue-Winged Olive) Mayfly Dun from Mystery Creek #43 in New York

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Tiny Baetis mayflies are perhaps the most commonly encountered and imitated by anglers on all American trout streams due to their great abundance, widespread distribution, and trout-friendly emergence habits.

I like this one. Glacial river, taiga, tundra, and the perpetual ice cover of a massive high ridge dozens of miles away in the Wrangell Mountains.

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Dorsal view of a Skwala (Perlodidae) (Large Springfly) Stonefly Nymph from the Yakima River in Washington

This Skwala nymph still has a couple months left to go before hatching, but it's still a good representative of its species, which was extremely abundant in my sample for a stonefly of this size. It's obvious why the Yakima is known for its Skwala hatch.

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East meets West: Todd's place on Cowden Lake, September 2020

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The (tilted) "Three Amigos Selfie" on the beach of Lake Michigan!

Joe & Todd feeling very little, if any, pain

Big, dark fish! Coho were thick in here but so were the humans...we didn't bother wetting a line

Back at Todd's place...his turtle platform, complete with turtles!

Okay, we weren't using fly rods, they were too deep...but we caught dinner! Double-header

Joe with another double-header! We's eatin' 'gills tonight!

Gleaned from a field owned by Frito-Lay post-harvest, these were leftovers just laying all over the ground like stones!

Watch out, got my 10-foot 7-weight cannon!

Joe continues to perfect his casting technique, here with a nymph/indicator set-up

Grumpy fisherman...worn out by that big rod, had my Measure-Net stolen by the swift current, which then almost took me for a swim...grumpy fisherman

Okay, there's just too many possible captions to pick one! You decide! (BTW this is now LEGAL in Michigan!)

Once again, "The Three Amigos" at Todd's cottage with Cowden Lake in the background

Jmd123

Oscoda, MI

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Jmd123 on Mar 2, 2021March 2nd, 2021, 3:30 am EST

Last fall just as colors were starting to change I headed west to a cute little kettle hole lake, where my buddy Todd has a fine cottage. Joe met up with us as well! We fished & partied & etc. for three days there and, as you can see, had a great time. Fly fishing was not as hoped for, and cloudy nighttime skies kept us from viewing the stars, but we had lots of fun anyway, can't help it with these guys! Enjoy.

Jonathon

P.S. Don't know why the pics are showing up goofy! The last one is NOT upside-down!!

No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...

Roguerat

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Roguerat on Mar 3, 2021March 3rd, 2021, 2:49 am EST

Jonathon,

Welcome (back) to the West Coast, and I'm wondering if your Cowden L is the one in Montcalm Co...? If so I fished all over the place in and around that neck of the MI woods, throwing an 8 wt and big scary hair-bugs for LM Bass and N Pike way back in my fly-fishing 'yoot.
Nice pics and looks like a good time with friends and some suspicious weeds and all,

Roguerat

"Less is more...'

Ludwig Mies Vande Rohe

Wbranch

York & Starlight PA

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Wbranch on Mar 3, 2021March 3rd, 2021, 5:17 am EST

Looks like you guys had nice weather and a good time. I really like the looks of the stream where you lost your net. The trout in there are they wild or stocked? Any steelhead?

Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.

Roguerat

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Roguerat on Mar 3, 2021March 3rd, 2021, 5:24 am EST

Deductive reasoning here, I'm thinking it's the Platte (the MI one, not CO) or else the Betsie R?
Crazy clear water, the Coho with attendant zoo/crowd, and in or near Sleeping Bear Nat'l Lakeshore...just guessing.

Roguerat

'Less is more...'

Ludwig Mies Vande Rohe