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.

Outlet stream of Upper Titcomb Lake

From Titcomb Basin in Wyoming

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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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Spring is finally coming

By Troutnut on April 24th, 2014

Things have melted here in Alaska just enough for me to slip and slide my way up the hilly, narrow, rutted trail of ice and mud leading to a scenic mountain where I sometimes find some ptarmigan in the fall. I was hoping to get a few birds for the table before the season closes on April 30th, but I climbed all over the little mountaintop and didn't see or hear a single one. Hunting is over for now, but grayling should be returning to fishable streams as I write.

Photos by Troutnut from Miscellaneous Alaska in Alaska

View toward the Minto Flats

From Murphy Dome in Alaska

Denali from near Murphy Dome. This was the clearest view of the mountain I've ever had from this far away (150 miles).

From Murphy Dome in Alaska

Abandoned ptarmigan habitat. I found a few white feathers from birds molting out of their winter plumage, but didn't see or hear any live ptarmigan.

From Murphy Dome in Alaska

Taiga and the Minto Flats

From Murphy Dome in Alaska

Denali from near Murphy Dome. I don't know what the peculiar bright light is shining near the top of the mountain on the right side. It was conspicuous like this for several minutes. I don't know what's up there that would reflect sunlight (or emit its own light) and look so much brighter than everything else from 150 miles away.

From Murphy Dome in Alaska

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Oldredbarn

Novi, MI

Posts: 2600

Oldredbarn on Apr 29, 2014April 29th, 2014, 10:30 am EDT

Jason,

Wonderful! Now could you send it down this way?! :)

Spence

Glad to see you survived another winter there, sir.

"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

TNEAL
GRAYLING. MICHIGAN

Posts: 278

TNEAL on Apr 29, 2014April 29th, 2014, 2:11 pm EDT

Lots of water here and still below average temperatures. I fished the AuSable (Michigan) yesterday and the water temp maxed out at 49. Several fish taken on a wooly bugger; no hatches to speak of. Hendricksons are a week or so off, I'm told. First week of May is supposed to average about 10 degrees below "normal".

We are going to be way behind here with insect emergences.....