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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.

Dorsal view of a Neoleptophlebia (Leptophlebiidae) Mayfly Nymph from the Yakima River in Washington
Some characteristics from the microscope images for the tentative species id: The postero-lateral projections are found only on segment 9, not segment 8. Based on the key in Jacobus et al. (2014), it appears to key to Neoleptophlebia adoptiva or Neoleptophlebia heteronea, same as this specimen with pretty different abdominal markings. However, distinguishing between those calls for comparing the lengths of the second and third segment of the labial palp, and this one (like the other one) only seems to have two segments. So I'm stuck on them both. It's likely that the fact that they're immature nymphs stymies identification in some important way.
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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Troutnut on Dec 3, 2006December 3rd, 2006, 1:46 pm EST
Some of you have requested a forum section for sharing photographs, and it seems like a good place to discuss photographic equipment and techniques too. So I've added the Photography section to the forum for all that.

I'm also moving some existing photo-related topics over to that section. Let's make good use of it!
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Gripngrin on Dec 3, 2006December 3rd, 2006, 2:40 pm EST
Awesome, J !

Please share specs for submission of photos.

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Troutnut on Dec 3, 2006December 3rd, 2006, 2:59 pm EST
It should accept any jpegs smaller than 1 megabyte. So it won't take high-resolution unresized pictures straight from the camera, but just about any typical screen size image should work.
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