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.

I spent more than an hour casting to several rising trout in this pool and caught only two. Its clear water and tricky currents harbor dozens of free-rising, usually very hard-to-catch fish.

From Enfield Creek in New York

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Kogotus Stonefly Nymph Kogotus Stonefly Nymph

Dorsal view of a Kogotus (Perlodidae) Stonefly Nymph from Mystery Creek #199 in Washington

This one pretty clearly keys to Kogotus, but it also looks fairly different from specimens I caught in the same creek about a month later in the year. With only one species of the genus known in Washington, I'm not sure about the answer to this ID.

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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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A few good small creek bugs

By Troutnut on June 12th, 2022

I was traveling on the east side of the Cascades today, where all the rivers are ridiculously high from a combination of snowmelt and rain. It's dangerous to even get in the water. But I found a place to sample a few bugs in a small creek and added a couple stoneflies from my to-do list.

Closeup insects by Troutnut from Swauk Creek in Washington

Doroneuria baumanni (Golden Stone) Stonefly Nymph

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Dorsal view of a Doroneuria baumanni (Perlidae) (Golden Stone) Stonefly Nymph from Swauk Creek in Washington

I'm not aware of any way to tell the two species of Doroneuria apart as nymphs, so this one is classified to species based on location alone. Doroneuria baumanni is found in the Cascades and in Washington, and the other species is not known here yet.

Collected June 12, 2022 from Swauk Creek in Washington

Added by Troutnut on June 13, 2022

Collected June 12, 2022 from Swauk Creek in Washington and added by Troutnut on June 13, 2022

Alloperla (Sallfly) Stonefly Nymph

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