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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 Sweltsa (Chloroperlidae) (Sallfly) Stonefly Nymph from the Yakima River in Washington
This species was fairly abundant in a February sample of the upper Yakima.
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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LowBudget
Afton, NY

Posts: 25
LowBudget on Apr 1, 2014April 1st, 2014, 4:36 pm EDT
Cell Phone / iPod / iPad DIY Photo-Microscope (aka Smart-D-Scope)

A couple of weeks back I mentioned using cell phones, iPod Touch, and iPads with a $1.00 lens as a way to take dissecting microscope-like quality pictures.

I have been playing around with them and have built several different models that work. I have also used them with my high school students. (My school owns enough iPod Touch devices that I can supply one for each lab group.)

Students have taken to them like trout take to a hex hatch! Even students who are not normally engaged like the idea that something they have can take close up pictures of things that make ordinary stuff look scary.
New! I have put directions that I have written on how to build your own Smart-D-Scope for less than $8.00 at;

http://edengelman.com/smartDscope/smartDscope16P.pdf

I have posted some of my pictures on Flickr

https://www.flickr.com/photos/107447394@N07/sets/72157641718340454/


This is no April fool’s joke!

Ed
Ed
Low Budget Fly Tying and Fishing author of "Behind the Fly"
http://edengelman.com/BTF.html
Entoman
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Northern CA & ID

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Entoman on Apr 1, 2014April 1st, 2014, 8:35 pm EDT
Thanks for sharing, Ed! I have both devices and will give it a go.
"It's not that I find fishing so important, it's just that I find all other endeavors of Man equally unimportant... And not nearly as much fun!" Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman

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