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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.
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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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Ugly flies catch fish, pretty flies catch fisherman and well tied flies catch both.
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Oh, thrilling the rise to the lure that is dry, when the shy fish comes up to his slaughter.
Yet rather would I have the turn to my fly. with a cunning brown wink under water.
The bright little wink under water! Mysterious wink under water!
Delightful
Yet rather would I have the turn to my fly. with a cunning brown wink under water.
The bright little wink under water! Mysterious wink under water!
Delightful