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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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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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Crepuscular on Jun 2, 2017June 2nd, 2017, 2:38 am EDT
Been busy around here. Lots of fishing. Lots of bugs and rising fish. So far it's been a great spring. All dry fly fish...
That's enough for now...
That's enough for now...
Wbranch on Jun 2, 2017June 2nd, 2017, 3:13 am EDT
I'm assuming you were on Penns? What is the very first mayfly on the butt of the cane rod? Wow! you really had some fantastic dry fly fishing. It looks like the water is right up in the grass - how was the wading? Are the drakes over? They have started on the Delaware but only way down river around Calicoon.
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.
Crepuscular on Jun 2, 2017June 2nd, 2017, 5:15 am EDT
The photos are from several streams and rivers in PA and NY. The first mayfly pictured is a Hendrickson spinner.
Wbranch on Jun 2, 2017June 2nd, 2017, 6:31 am EDT
Well then that picture must of been taken at least a few weeks ago. Nice pictures. What kind of fly reel is on the rod?
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.
Crepuscular on Jun 2, 2017June 2nd, 2017, 6:53 am EDT
I think that photo is an older one, however I will say that the first fish I caught on a hendrickson was on March 9th and the last was on May 18th. So without checking the date of the photo, it's from sometime between those dates. The reel is an Abel BG .5
Roguerat on Jun 2, 2017June 2nd, 2017, 7:08 am EDT
Eric,
NICE fish, nice flies, I'm a little envious and ask forgiveness...
and I've got a ways to go in image quality so far as posting on the site; a cell-phone camera shot, taken by my long-suffering, bank-sitting spouse just doesn't cut it.
tight lines,
Roguerat
'Less is more...'
Ludwig Mies Vande Rohe
NICE fish, nice flies, I'm a little envious and ask forgiveness...
and I've got a ways to go in image quality so far as posting on the site; a cell-phone camera shot, taken by my long-suffering, bank-sitting spouse just doesn't cut it.
tight lines,
Roguerat
'Less is more...'
Ludwig Mies Vande Rohe
Martinlf on Jun 2, 2017June 2nd, 2017, 7:11 am EDT
Beautiful artistic compositions. Thanks for sharing these, Eric.
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"
--Fred Chappell
--Fred Chappell
Oldredbarn on Jun 12, 2017June 12th, 2017, 5:51 am EDT
Nice damn day off there mister!!! Next time you're off to play hooky how's about a call?! ;)
Your bug pics are always cool, but that sixth pic is down right artistic...Maybe you missed another calling? Lets see, is that the third or fourth calling you have missed? ;)
Spence
Your bug pics are always cool, but that sixth pic is down right artistic...Maybe you missed another calling? Lets see, is that the third or fourth calling you have missed? ;)
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
Jmd123 on Jun 12, 2017June 12th, 2017, 7:39 am EDT
Very nice Eric! I hadn't seen the full series before, pretty looking fish and nice flies. Our spring has been cold, wet, and windy...we've gotten rid of the cold and the wet finally but that wind...well, it's evening season now so hopefully as the sun goes down things will get a bit calmer.
That might be one reason Rogue is envious, and I am too!
Jonathon
That might be one reason Rogue is envious, and I am too!
Jonathon
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...
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