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A better word for edges would be transitions. In other words, where one type of water changes to another, one type of bottom ...
The mayfly’s scientific order name, Ephemeroptera (from “ephemeral,” meaning short-lived), perfectly captures their fleeting existence defined by perpetual motion until death—a remarkable example of ...
Some mayfly nymphs cling to underwater rocks, and some burrow into the streambed, but they become meals for trout when they’re dislodged by current and float downstream.
The lights will go out on a bridge over the Mississippi River in Winona, Minnesota, for the next few weeks to squelch the ...
I have a new favorite nymph pattern that I have dubbed — pun intended — Dan’s Killer Rubber Leg Nymph. For those of you unfamiliar with fly tying terminology, dubbing ...
The lights will go out on a bridge over the Mississippi River in Winona, Minnesota, for the next few weeks to squelch the impact of a mayfly hatch.
Wet wading season is here! The fishing is getting a bit more challenging as the big bugs of June and early July fade away. As ...
Explore how to enter a traffic pattern at the correct position and altitude, ensuring you’re in a safe spot to join the pattern without causing any disruption to other traffic.
Discover prime time evening fly fishing in the Adirondacks. Learn when and where to fish zebra caddis and hex hatches for ...
I have been asked many times, what is the best trout fly. My answer is, there isn’t an “all around best trout fly”. There are ...
The next step has been to study the oxygen consumption of such animals in terms of the available oxygen, and we have confined ourselves to mayfly nymphs.
Recently, another function has been ascribed to these structures by Eastham3, who shows that in the nymph of the mayfly, Ecdyonurua venosus, they act as paddles which bathe with water the gill ...