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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.

Case view of a Pycnopsyche guttifera (Limnephilidae) (Great Autumn Brown Sedge) Caddisfly Larva from the Yakima River in Washington
It's only barely visible in one of my pictures, but I confirmed under the microscope that this one has a prosternal horn and the antennae are mid-way between the eyes and front of the head capsule.

I'm calling this one Pycnopsyche, but it's a bit perplexing. It seems to key definitively to at least Couplet 8 of the Key to Genera of Limnephilidae Larvae. That narrows it down to three genera, and the case seems wrong for the other two. The case looks right for Pycnopsyche, and it fits one of the key characteristics: "Abdominal sternum II without chloride epithelium and abdominal segment IX with only single seta on each side of dorsal sclerite." However, the characteristic "metanotal sa1 sclerites not fused, although often contiguous" does not seem to fit well. Those sclerites sure look fused to me, although I can make out a thin groove in the touching halves in the anterior half under the microscope. Perhaps this is a regional variation.

The only species of Pycnopsyche documented in Washington state is Pycnopsyche guttifera, and the colors and markings around the head of this specimen seem to match very well a specimen of that species from Massachusetts on Bugguide. So I am placing it in that species for now.

Whatever species this is, I photographed another specimen of seemingly the same species from the same spot a couple months later.
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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Wiflyfisher on Sep 1, 2007September 1st, 2007, 4:04 am EDT
I ordered a mousepad from CafePress and had one of my E. leukon photos placed on it. The mousepad's quality is real nice but I was disappointed the photo didn't cover the entire mousepad. The idea is great for real trout/bug nut, I just wish for $10 + $5 shipping the entire pad was covered.
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Shawnny3 on Sep 1, 2007September 1st, 2007, 5:00 am EDT
You have to be careful when you get photos developed that you crop them to the exact size that they will be printed - otherwise, the company printing it has to make its own judgment on the best course (either leave blank space or risk cropping out something the customer wants included). You should have gotten the exact dimensions of the pad ahead of time and cropped your photo to those proportions. A tough lesson to learn, but the pad still looks great - definitely real enough looking to scare the crap out of bug-squeamish people when they reach for your mouse. Nice photo, John.

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Troutnut on Sep 1, 2007September 1st, 2007, 1:39 pm EDT
I'm sure you can make it print the entire mousepad. You just have to be careful with the "bleed" sizes on the pictures so you send one large enough that they can print a little off the edges before they cut it. I have to do that with lots of the products in my CafePress store and they come out just fine.
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Shawnny3 on Sep 2, 2007September 2nd, 2007, 6:10 am EDT
Yeah, Jason's right. When I said "crop them to the exact size that they will be printed," that's not really what I meant. I meant the PROPORTIONS in your photo have to be exactly the proportions of the print you want. You should probably not resize the image to the size you want or you'll lose resolution when it's printed (or does CafePress make you resize them, Jason?). And, as Jason said, you always lose a little on the edges when prints are made, but this should be a negligible amount in most cases - the biggest problems would occur if your photo had a thin border around it. Even the best printers and print-cutters need a little leeway to account for tiny shifts in the substrate they're printing on or cutting.

Sorry if my original comments were confusing.

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