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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.
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I caught this tiny larva without a case, but it seems to key pretty clearly to to Glossosomatidae. From there, the lack of sclerites on the mesonotum points to either Glossosoma or Anagapetus. Although it's difficult to see in a 2D image from the microscope, it's pretty clear in the live 3D view that the pronotum is only excised about 1/3 of its length to accommodate the forecoxa, not 2/3, which points to Glossosoma at Couplet 5 of the Key to Genera of Glossosomatidae Larvae.
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My dad turned me on to fly fishing when I was very young. I would use some flies but worms as well in my teen years but wanted to fish exclusively with flies but didn't know how to match hatched etc. so I didn't get as serious until I moved south ,in my late forties, (NC) and started mountain fishing in NC at South Mt's. State Park and Wilson Creek. I got more in to it and now exclusively fish with my own hand tied flies, something else important my dad taught me.
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