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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.

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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Updates from June 4, 2005

Photos by Troutnut from the Marengo River, , and Twentymile Creek in Wisconsin and

A storm recedes over the boggy headwaters of a nice trout stream.  I haven't seen any trout in this stretch, but it's a good place to collect burrowing mayfly nymphs.

From the Marengo River in Wisconsin
The Marengo River in Wisconsin
I found this big snapping turtle crossing the road next to the headwaters of a tiny brook trout stream I've never fished.
Twentymile Creek in Wisconsin

Closeup insects by Troutnut and Bnewell from the Marengo River, the Teal River, the Long Lake Branch of the White River, Eighteenmile Creek, the Namekagon River, and Georgetown Lake in Wisconsin and Montana

Updates from June 3, 2005

Closeup insects by Troutnut from the Teal River in Wisconsin

Updates from June 2, 2005

Closeup insects by Troutnut from the Teal River and the Namekagon River in Wisconsin

Lateral view of a Male Ephemerella invaria (Ephemerellidae) (Sulphur) Mayfly Spinner from the Teal River in Wisconsin
Lateral view of a Male Eurylophella minimella (Ephemerellidae) (Chocolate Dun) Mayfly Spinner from the Namekagon River in Wisconsin
The genus ID on this specimen is confident but species is very tentative, based on the tentative ID of a seemingly-identical specimen from a nearby river a few days apart.

Updates from June 1, 2005

Closeup insects by Troutnut from the Namekagon River in Wisconsin

Artistic view of a Female Epeorus vitreus (Heptageniidae) (Sulphur) Mayfly Spinner from the Namekagon River in Wisconsin
Lateral view of a Male Siphlonurus quebecensis (Siphlonuridae) (Gray Drake) Mayfly Spinner from the Namekagon River in Wisconsin
Lateral view of a Male Ephemera simulans (Ephemeridae) (Brown Drake) Mayfly Spinner from the Namekagon River in Wisconsin

References

  • Allen, R.K., and Edmunds, George F. Jr. 1963. A Revision of the Genus Ephemerella (Ephemeroptera: Ephemerellidae) VII. The Subgenus Eurylophella. Canadian Entomologist 95: 597-623.
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