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.

Upper Titcomb Lake

From Titcomb Basin in Wyoming

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Onocosmoecus (Great Late-Summer Sedge) Caddisfly Larva Onocosmoecus (Great Late-Summer Sedge) Caddisfly Larva

Lateral view of a Onocosmoecus (Limnephilidae) (Great Late-Summer Sedge) Caddisfly Larva from the Yakima River in Washington

This specimen keys pretty easily to Onocosmoecus, and it closely resembles a specimen from Alaska which caddis expert Dave Ruiter recognized as this genus. As with that specimen, the only species in the genus documented in this area is Onocosmoecus unicolor, but Dave suggested for that specimen that there might be multiple not-yet-distinguished species under the unicolor umbrella and it would be best to stick with the genus-level ID. I'm doing the same for this one.

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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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Emerald shiner steehead

Wbranch has attached these 5 pictures. The message is below.

You will note these are just 2D eyes. I now only use 3D eyes

I don't know if the addition of the lateral line is really required. But adding them is pretty easy so I keep doing it. It appears this fly doesn't have it.

Wbranch

York & Starlight PA

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Wbranch on Oct 2, 2020October 2nd, 2020, 8:26 am EDT

These fish were all caught on that emerald shiner pattern.

Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.

Partsman

bancroft michigan

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Partsman on Oct 2, 2020October 2nd, 2020, 8:46 am EDT

Beautiful Matt, luckily for you the Lake Erie steelhead fishery has crashed, I wish I could say the same for the lake Huron fishery. The Ausable River below Foote dam is a nothing like it was in the 80's. But I you simply have to adjust for that fishery, so I did, and now I find myself fishing for trout in the special regs fisheries. I really enjoy streamer fishing, and Im always looking for new patterns to try.
Mike.

Wbranch

York & Starlight PA

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Wbranch on Oct 2, 2020October 2nd, 2020, 11:28 am EDT

I re-posted two of the pictures.

Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.