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

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.

Case view of a Pycnopsyche guttifera (Limnephilidae) (Great Autumn Brown Sedge) Caddisfly Larva from the Yakima River in Washington
It's only barely visible in one of my pictures, but I confirmed under the microscope that this one has a prosternal horn and the antennae are mid-way between the eyes and front of the head capsule.

I'm calling this one Pycnopsyche, but it's a bit perplexing. It seems to key definitively to at least Couplet 8 of the Key to Genera of Limnephilidae Larvae. That narrows it down to three genera, and the case seems wrong for the other two. The case looks right for Pycnopsyche, and it fits one of the key characteristics: "Abdominal sternum II without chloride epithelium and abdominal segment IX with only single seta on each side of dorsal sclerite." However, the characteristic "metanotal sa1 sclerites not fused, although often contiguous" does not seem to fit well. Those sclerites sure look fused to me, although I can make out a thin groove in the touching halves in the anterior half under the microscope. Perhaps this is a regional variation.

The only species of Pycnopsyche documented in Washington state is Pycnopsyche guttifera, and the colors and markings around the head of this specimen seem to match very well a specimen of that species from Massachusetts on Bugguide. So I am placing it in that species for now.

Whatever species this is, I photographed another specimen of seemingly the same species from the same spot a couple months later.
27" brown trout, my largest ever. It was the sub-dominant fish in its pool. After this, I hooked the bigger one, but I couldn't land it.
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Jmd123
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Jmd123 on May 19, 2020May 19th, 2020, 10:38 am EDT
The Edenville Dam on the Tittabawassee River just FAILED from an excessive amount of precipitation. I don't know what fell down there but we got over 8" according to my neighbor here in Iosco County. I was supposed to be working on county drains in this area, as well as invasive weed surveys on this and other lakes in the chain, wetland restorations, soil sedimentation and erosion control, endangered mussels...the county drains are going to be re-arranged, the lakes drained, erosion control/restoration areas blasted to pieces, culverts blown out, mussels buried or blown out?

Crazy world, welcome to Climate Change!

Jonathon

P.S. Oh, and the Rifle River took out the US 23 bridge at Omer.
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Partsman on May 19, 2020May 19th, 2020, 10:51 am EDT
Hope folks are safe downstream from the dam. The Rifle looks pretty ugly, I don't know, all I thought about all winter was fishing this spring, sure not looking good.
Mike.
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Jmd123 on May 19, 2020May 19th, 2020, 1:05 pm EDT
https://radio.wcmu.org/post/gladwin-and-midland-counties-see-flooding-evacuation-orders

Yikes!!!

Jonathon
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Jmd123 on May 19, 2020May 19th, 2020, 1:14 pm EDT
https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/local/michigan/1-mid-michigan-dam-breached-another-at-risk/69-5371bc0d-7e25-4ac3-a1cf-9fce5a7f7bd9

https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Edenville+Dam&qpvt=Edenville+Dam&FORM=EWRE

Google Maps view:

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.8134015,-84.3761214,1121m/data=!3m1!1e3

Right (East) side blew...

AND Sanford is going to blow AND I just heard Secord...that's 3 for 4, Smallwood is the only one left...

Jonathon
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