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.
This one was surprisingly straightforward to identify. The lack of a sclerite at the base of the lateral hump narrows the field quite a bit, and the other options followed fairly obvious characteristics to Clostoeca, which only has one species, Clostoeca disjuncta.
Now i know that everyone here on troutnut gets tired from time to time of all the reading that we do for each other..so i decided id give all you guys and girls some more pictures to look at ha ;) These are just a few of the beautiful wild fish i recently encountered, and boy oh boy did i have to work for them! But you know what they say, hard work sure does pay off.
DANG, Jesse!! Where is that?? Funny thing, that pipeline reminds me of the Chattahoochee River in the Atlanta, GA area. I fished that myself in 2002 and caught some nice rainbows & brownies, but not THAT big!! Bigger than that first little dude though, pretty as it is...Well done Sir!!
Jonathon
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...
Oldredbarn on May 17, 2011May 17th, 2011, 6:49 am EDT
Jess,
I have seen enough of your previous undergraduate work to believe you may be just about ready to begin working on your Brown Trout Masters here on the Au Sable...I think my fellow Michiganders on this site would agree with me that they can be tough...They don't like playing much in the daylight and won't move more than a quarter inch from logs that are up under overhanging cedars,or they stay hidden up under under-cut banks, but we feel that once you can catch Browns here consistantly you just about have it made anywhere else.
Consider this a letter of acceptance to Brown Trout U...:)
Salvelinus fontinalis! Brings tears to my eyes! That's why us old-school Michigan river-rats feel Rube Babbitt was a visionary and should be nominated for sainthood! He, he!
Spence
"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively
"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
Well as you know i cant say much ha, but your right about the spring time..late spring though only a couple of weeks ago and no they werent on yellow streamers. Most of them actually werent caught on streamers at all. Nymphs and dries.