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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 Zapada cinctipes (Nemouridae) (Tiny Winter Black) Stonefly Nymph from the Yakima River in Washington
Nymphs of this species were fairly common in late-winter kick net samples from the upper Yakima River. Although I could not find a key to species of Zapada nymphs, a revision of the Nemouridae family by Baumann (1975) includes the following helpful sentence: "2 cervical gills on each side of midline, 1 arising inside and 1 outside of lateral cervical sclerites, usually single and elongate, sometimes constricted but with 3 or 4 branches arising beyond gill base in Zapada cinctipes." This specimen clearly has the branches and is within the range of that species.
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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Oldredbarn on Dec 18, 2011December 18th, 2011, 9:20 am EST
"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively

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Sayfu on Dec 18, 2011December 18th, 2011, 11:23 am EST

Wow!..Looks beautiful. I use to live in a big home, made of limestone with a light blue streak through it that came from a quarry in Ohio. We had the home built, and I watched them drop off piles of these blue limestone rocks on our property, and the bricks were chiseled right on the property.
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Troutnut on Dec 18, 2011December 18th, 2011, 1:39 pm EST
I can put up a few hundred if you can manage the other $8,999,700!

When do we sign?
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GldstrmSam on Dec 20, 2011December 20th, 2011, 11:52 am EST
Sorry, but my first priority is to get a new rod and reel.

Looks AMAZING!. I'll need to come visit you whenever you get it.:)

There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm. ~Patrick F. McManus
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Oldredbarn on Dec 21, 2011December 21st, 2011, 4:43 am EST
When do we sign?


Let's see...Maybe sometime when you are back in the lower 48...:) Could be a while, no?

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Merry Christmas Mr. & Mrs. TroutNut...I hope you two are hunkered down in your igloo till spring! Hey! Speaking of igloos. Have you ever read "Kabloona" by Gontran de Poncins? This might be a good distraction read so cabin fever won't set in...I should of got it for you as a Christmas gift.
"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

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