Lateral view of a Male Baetis (Baetidae) (Blue-Winged Olive) Mayfly Dun from Mystery Creek #43 in New York

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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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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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Ericd
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Ericd on Sep 22, 2009September 22nd, 2009, 4:49 pm EDT

Thanks Roger. I was joking. But I am including the ISBN in my comprehensive spreadsheet and I hope to send out a meeting request to get your input by the end of next week. That's another joke and some insight into what I deal with every day.

Taxon

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Taxon on Sep 23, 2009September 23rd, 2009, 6:05 am EDT

Eric-

Thanks Roger. I was joking.

You are welcome. Good to know.

Best regards,
Roger Rohrbeck
www.FlyfishingEntomology.com

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Martinlf on Sep 23, 2009September 23rd, 2009, 12:18 pm EDT

I'll second Konchu on "The Bait." It's a very complex and sophisticated take off on Marlowe's "Passionate Shepherd to His Love." Ralegh wrote "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," but Donne surpassed anything his predecessors had done. Great stuff.

"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"

--Fred Chappell

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Delablobbo on Sep 23, 2009September 23rd, 2009, 12:42 pm EDT

Ernest Hemingway's short story, "Two Big Hearted River." It describes rods and fly lines and leaders. It caused me to buy a fly rod. The poetry in the prose inspired me to write short stories. I owe that story much!

I like Traver, despite his often bad writing. His trout books are timeless, nonetheless. I love his contrarian nature, his anti-commercialism, his outlaw fly fisher persona. He fished only in the U.P. of Michigan.

Duncan has a few good stories. The one about his friend named Jeremiah is a riot.

Ericd
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Ericd on Sep 23, 2009September 23rd, 2009, 2:07 pm EDT

Hi William. Big Two-Hearted was the first fly fishing story I read, I think. It's unleashed a lot for me as well. I've found that most of his novels, and quite a bit of his short stories, include fly fishing characters. I didn't care much for "The Sun Also Rises," but I enjoyed the trips they take in Spain to fly fish.
Let me know if I need to lay off this topic (I'm almost as addicted to reading the trout fiction as I am to fly fishing for them non-fictionally, if I can make that up), but I don't think "The Congressman's Daughter" has been mentioned and I would put that one and "The Snowfly" as two of my favorites.
eric

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Falsifly on Sep 23, 2009September 23rd, 2009, 4:01 pm EDT

Ah! May I add Gene Hill? Passing A Good Time, With Guns, Dogs, Fly Rods, and Other Joys. ISBN 0-924357-64-9

Falsifly
When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that."

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Martinlf on Sep 24, 2009September 24th, 2009, 1:23 am EDT

Eric, would it be possible to persuade you to email me the spreadsheet when it's finished? I can give you my email address if so. Perhaps others would like to see it as well.

"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"

--Fred Chappell

Ericd
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Ericd on Sep 25, 2009September 25th, 2009, 4:20 am EDT

Sure, Louis. It'll be a work in progress for a long time, but I'll send you something when it feels comprehensive.

Ericd
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Ericd on Oct 19, 2009October 19th, 2009, 1:03 pm EDT

I have this blog that I don't use, but put my list there:

http://29yearslater.blogspot.com/

I continue to get recommendations from folks, so I'll keep adding to it.
eric