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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Zapada cinctipes (Tiny Winter Black) Stonefly Nymph Zapada cinctipes (Tiny Winter Black) Stonefly Nymph

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.

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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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Michigan DNR Fisheries Reports & Publications Library

TimCat

Alanson, MI

Posts: 121

TimCat on Sep 3, 2015September 3rd, 2015, 10:31 am EDT

Hey all, I figured I'd share this. Could be useful if not interesting to go through. Unfortunately the library is only updated until 2005, but the searchable database is great! It dates back to 1930 and has a wide array of studies and reports conducted by the DNR and other organizations (mainly U of M from what I've noticed so far).

http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10364_52259_19056---,00.html

"If I'm not going to catch anything, then I 'd rather not catch anything on flies" - Bob Lawless

PaulRoberts

Colorado

Posts: 1776

PaulRoberts on Sep 3, 2015September 3rd, 2015, 2:16 pm EDT

Wow! Wish every state had such a database.

Jmd123

Oscoda, MI

Posts: 2474

Jmd123 on Sep 3, 2015September 3rd, 2015, 2:45 pm EDT

Tim, I've dipped into this on occasion, and there are some very nice reports on lakes and rivers. Yep, our DNR does a good job of making these publications available to the public.

Jonathon

No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...

Roguerat

Posts: 456

Roguerat on Sep 3, 2015September 3rd, 2015, 3:58 pm EDT

I've also done some searching through these archives, it takes some digging but it's worth it.
Another good resource is to Google 'macroinvertebrate study of (enter stream of choice) and see what comes up. My college daughter did a couple field trips during a biology class and told me about it; I've done print-outs of a fair number of MI trout streams and the information is all to genus, and in some cases, species level- trout, mayflies, caddis, stoneflies, its all in there. The test station locations are also given and I've tied flies based on this data.

Roguerat

'Less is more...'

Ludwig Mies Vande Rohe

PaulRoberts

Colorado

Posts: 1776

PaulRoberts on Sep 4, 2015September 4th, 2015, 6:24 am EDT

We're SO spoiled. And that's a good thing.