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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.
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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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Oldredbarn on Jan 30, 2017January 30th, 2017, 1:59 am EST
A couple years back we had someone post a video here of a mayfly hatching. I think it was from Europe and was E danica and they followed it closely as it progressed downstream with its shuck hanging off the back end...Does anyone remember it, and maybe how I can find it?
Spence
Spence
"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
"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
Millcreek on Jan 30, 2017January 30th, 2017, 2:25 am EST
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
-Albert Einstein
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Oldredbarn on Jan 30, 2017January 30th, 2017, 4:29 am EST
Thanks! I got this one...It will work for what I'm doing.
Spence
Spence
"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
"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
Falsifly on Jan 30, 2017January 30th, 2017, 6:30 am EST
Allez-vous nous laisser en suspens Spence?
Falsifly
When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that."
When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that."
PaulRoberts on Jan 31, 2017January 31st, 2017, 1:05 am EST
I think I do, Spence. But it was some time back. Chalk stream, documentary style perhaps?