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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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JAD on Dec 10, 2010December 10th, 2010, 7:22 am EST
I took these pictures this summer What is IT.
Wat ya think
John
Wat ya think
John
They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax.
Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times,
Oldredbarn on Dec 10, 2010December 10th, 2010, 7:35 am EST
It's an alien!
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Taxon on Dec 10, 2010December 10th, 2010, 8:44 am EST
Hi John,
I believe it to be the larva (caterpillar) of an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly, Papilio glaucus.
I believe it to be the larva (caterpillar) of an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly, Papilio glaucus.
JAD on Dec 10, 2010December 10th, 2010, 9:07 am EST
Thank you Roger
That would be this
That would be this
They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax.
Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times,
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