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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Limnephilidae (Giant Sedges) Caddisfly Larva Limnephilidae (Giant Sedges) Caddisfly Larva

Dorsal view of a Limnephilidae (Giant Sedges) Caddisfly Larva from the Yakima River in Washington

This specimen resembled several others of around the same size and perhaps the same species, which were pretty common in my February sample from the upper Yakima. Unfortunately, I misplaced the specimen before I could get it under a microscope for a definitive ID.

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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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Sayfu
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Sayfu on Aug 25, 2011August 25th, 2011, 5:31 am EDT

Here's a tip that I use that I have never seen anyone else use. I started by using beads at the head of my hook for tying soft hackles. I "apply" the feather on smaller patterns especially rather than wrapping the feather. It becomes easy to size the small hackles, and the bead secures the hackle barbules behind the bead. I use XSM glass beads that look like a bug head, to tungsten beads to sink a soft hackle. But I then began using the XSM glass beads at the head of a dry fly! Has some good advantages. You never crowd the head because you start with the head. Tying off the feather becomes very easy securing it behind the bead. Then I tie off using the double under the thread knot(not knowing the name) a Gary Borger knot for securing off a fly. Head cement doesn't get in the eye of the fly, and it does not contribute to sinking the fly. Adds an attracting feature IMO.

Wbranch

York & Starlight PA

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Wbranch on Apr 4, 2015April 4th, 2015, 1:02 pm EDT

I just stumbled on this thread and find it very interesting not only as possibly a "hot spot" on a dry fly but still after fifty plus years of tying I still sometimes crowd the eye and have a heck of a time getting a 6X tippet through a material clogged eye while on the river and the fish are rising.

Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.

Lastchance
Portage, PA

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Lastchance on Apr 5, 2015April 5th, 2015, 5:37 am EDT

I just stumbled on this thread and find it very interestin
g not only as possibly a "hot spot" on a dry fly but still after fifty plus years of tying I still sometimes crowd the eye and have a heck of a time getting a 6X tippet through a material clogged eye while on the river and the fish are rising.

I do the same things after 30 years of tying, ha!