Great thread! I love learning this kind of stuff too -- I'm looking forward to someone providing some information, because I sure don't know most of it.
-- The big sucker in the first picture looks like what I've seen people call a "march brown" but I have no clue whether that's true.....actually it probably isn't.
Gene
On Sunday, June 8, 2014 8:49:26 AM UTC-4, Bruce Thomson wrote:
On Sunday, June 8, 2014 8:49:26 AM UTC-4, Bruce Thomson wrote:
This past week I spent a night camping and fishing along the Upper Savage in western Md. Had some great luck with numerous brookies caught on dries and nymphs despite low water.
What I found very interesting, though, was the volume and diversity of insects life coming off the water. There seemed a prolific hatch and subsequent spinner falls of what I'm guessing were sulphurs, green drakes, a large grey mayfly, and yellow caddis.
Clearly a healthy stream.
I'm relatively new to hatch ID and would love it if folks could help me confirm what was coming off. I snapped a few shots (attached) of some of what I found coming off, or later falling back. In fact, around the campfire, at one point long after dark, there were swarms of what I think were sulphur spinners, actually laying orange eggs on the book I was reading. They disappeared at one point and jet-black caddis showed up thereafter.
In any case, the fishing was good, but I found the insect activity fascinating. Help confirming what I was seeing would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Bruce
http://www.tpfr.org
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