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Mayflies

Caddisflies

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I've taken a few of my favorite pictures and made them into nice desktop backgrounds. It's really easy to set one of these as your background. Just click the link closest to your screen resolution below a picture to save it to your hard drive. Then (if you're using Windows XP) right-click on your desktop, select "Properties," go to the "Desktop" tab, hit the "Browse" button, select the image from wherever you just saved it, and click "Apply" and "Okay".

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This small stream's so clear it looks like a swimming pool in this really deep spot.

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Here's a "water penny" (a Psephenidae beetle larva) crawling around on a real penny.

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I got several really nice pictures of this spinner. I also collected a female on the same trip.

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It's a real shame that this beautiful piece of Catskill water is off-limits to the public. It was tempting to cast from the road itself.

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No method of casting in my arsenal was capable of presenting a fly to the brook trout in this hidden pool.

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Jargon Defined:

Larva: Many classes of aquatic insects, such as caddisflies, midges, craneflies, dobsonflies, alderflies, and many more, are known as "larvae" rather than "nymphs" in their juvenile stages. They have mostly soft bodies rather than hard exoskeletons. These insects also advance through a "pupa" stage before reaching adulthood.

Spinner: There are two winged stages of adult mayflies. They emerge from the water as duns, molt on land (usually) into their fully mature stage, spinners. As spinners, they mate, lay eggs, and die.