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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.

Ventral view of a Hydropsyche (Hydropsychidae) (Spotted Sedge) Caddisfly Larva from the Yakima River in Washington
With a bit of help from the microscope, this specimen keys clearly and unsurprisingly to Hydropsyche.
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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IEatimago
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IEatimago on Jul 2, 2007July 2nd, 2007, 8:38 am EDT
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JAD on Jul 2, 2007July 2nd, 2007, 2:27 pm EDT


Nice brown Jason, what did he take.


JaD

They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax.
Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times,
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Troutnut on Jul 2, 2007July 2nd, 2007, 9:27 pm EDT
Congratulations!

I fixed the picture and link for you. (The code straight from photobucket doesn't work.)
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IEatimago
Spring Mills, PA

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IEatimago on Jul 3, 2007July 3rd, 2007, 2:55 am EDT
that one took a parachute adams,

BxRxTxK
western NC

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BxRxTxK on Jul 3, 2007July 3rd, 2007, 4:43 am EDT
nice brown...

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