Lateral view of a Male Baetis (Baetidae) (Blue-Winged Olive) Mayfly Dun from Mystery Creek #43 in New York

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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.

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Psychodidae True Fly Larva Psychodidae True Fly Larva

Lateral view of a Psychodidae True Fly Larva from Mystery Creek #308 in Washington

This wild-looking little thing completely puzzled me. At first I was thinking beetle or month larva, until I got a look at the pictures on the computer screen. I made a couple of incorrect guesses before entomologist Greg Courtney pointed me in the right direction with Psychodidae. He suggested a possible genus of Thornburghiella, but could not rule out some other members of the tribe Pericomini.

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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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Vote for Casting for Recovery

Shawnny3
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Pleasant Gap, PA

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Shawnny3 on Mar 21, 2012March 21st, 2012, 6:24 pm EDT

Hello, troutnuts. Casting for Recovery is trying to win a voting challenge on the site below. This is an organization that provides no-cost flyfishing retreats to breast cancer survivors as a way to promote physical and emotional healing. CFR is currently in 6th place. If they can reach 3rd place by May 15th, when the voting ends, they will receive $50,000. You may vote for them every day by 3 different media. This Friday, 3/23, each vote for them counts 10x more than usual. So get the word out and at least vote on Friday. You can sign in using a Facebook or Twitter account.

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CaseyP

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CaseyP on Mar 21, 2012March 21st, 2012, 6:52 pm EDT

and if you don't do facebook or twitter, you can just sign up with an ordinary e-mail account!

thank you Shawn for bringing this up. hope to see the numbers jump. we Casting for Recovery volunteers are facing rising costs and more fund-raising challenges and sure could use every vote you can manage.

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Oldredbarn

Novi, MI

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Oldredbarn on Mar 22, 2012March 22nd, 2012, 9:22 am EDT

Shawn/Casey...Done.

I have a post-it on my desk here for tomorrow...Since I admitted to the post-it and not a pop-up on my Outlook you can imagine I had to do it via the "old" email route...No face on Facebook and I'm not a Twit...Tony might say otherwise since he's had to endure my carrying on about the best hockey team of the modern era, the Detroit Red Wings...;) At least it wasn't by carrier-pigeon...:)

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CaseyP

Arlington, VA/ Mercersburg, PA

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CaseyP on Mar 22, 2012March 22nd, 2012, 5:46 pm EDT

the post-it is on the calendar over the desk. what did we do before post-its? oh, yeah. we wrote on the calendar itself!

thanks, Spence!

"You can observe a lot by watching." Yogi Berra

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