The famous nocturnal Hex hatch of the Midwest (and a few other lucky locations) stirs to the surface mythically large brown trout that only touch streamers for the rest of the year.
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.
Troutnut on Oct 17, 2006October 17th, 2006, 3:07 pm EDT
I went to a presentation tonight at Cornell by Ray Troll, an artist who focuses most of his work on biology and a lot of it on fish. He's got a website at http://www.trollart.com which shows several of his drawings and paintings, although a lot of my favorite ones aren't on the site. It was great to see them projected on a big screen during his presentation. The detail doesn't jump out like that on the website, but it's still very much worth checking out.
Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D.
Troutnut and salmonid ecologist