Cabin Fever Quiz Time!

[salvelinusfontinalis]

Ok we all have had it, got it and are ready for some top water action. Just to get your blood pumping......

Name That Fly

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im sure you guys will do great ill post answers another day

p.s not cheating!

 

[Maurice]

1. Tan Caddis (although it looks really big but I went with the delta wing)
2. March Brown
3. BWO
4. Cream Cahill
5. Grannom
6. Caddis
7. Trico
8. Slate Drake (male)
9. Hendrickson
10. Slate Drake (female)
11. Hexagenia
12. Brown Drake
13. March Brown
14. BWO
15. Yellow Drake or Potamanthus

 

[MKern]

I am really bad at this bug ID thing.

But here we go...
1. October Caddis
2. Brown Drake
3. BWO
4. Light Cahill
5. ____ Caddis
6. ____ Caddis
7. Trico
8. Isonycia
9. ?
10. Gordon
11. ?
12. Hex
13. March Brown
14. Gordon
15. Coffin

 

[salvelinusfontinalis]

only two people guessing? well ill give it one more full day b4 the answers

 

[steve98]

1 cinnamon caddis
2 baetis
3 slate drake
4 light cahill
5 black caddis
6 little green stone
7 trico
8 march brown
9 qull gordon
10 b.w.o.
11 green drake/coffin/spinner
12 yellow drake
13 brown drake
14 sulphur dun
15 gray fox

 

[David]

Alright, as a primer for the season, lets give it a go...

1 Cinnamon caddis
2 March Brown
3 Quill gordon
4 P.E.D. e rotunda
5 Black caddis
6 apple green caddis
7 trike
8 Iso bicolor
9 E subvaria - Hendrickson
10 blue quill - paralep
11 Hex
12 Brown drake
13 march brown or mahogany dun
14 BWO
15 e varia - yellow drake

Even if I get them all wrong...I can still pick the right color comaradun for them, right?

 

[afishinado]

1. tan caddis??
2. march brown
3. quill gordon
4. cream cahill
5. black caddis??
6. caddis??
7. trico
8. slate drake
9. male hendrickson
10. blue quill
11. hexagenia
12. brown drake
13. march brown
14. BWO
15. yellow drake


Can't really ID the caddis without turning them upside down to see their bellies.

 

[bushwacker]

1. elk hair caddis
2. marchbrown
3. adams
4. sulpher
5. black cdc caddis
6. deer hair caddis
7. trico dun
8. adams
9. adams
10. adams
11. hummingbird
12. pterodactyl
13. march brown
14. bwo
15. coffin fly

 

[salvelinusfontinalis]

now this is what they said they were when i downloaded them thanks to all that played along

1. tan caddis
2. march brown
3. gray drake
4. light cahill
5. black caddis
6. brown caddis
7. trico
8. slate drake
9. red quill
10. blue quill
11. hex spinner
12. brown drake
13. march brown
14. BWO
15. yellow drake

and david...yes matching the color usually works just fine ;-)

 

[Maurice]

I only missed on #3 and #10 unless you want to get picky with the Black and Brown caddis. I said Grannom and caddis.

MKern got 6 right

Afish only missed #3

David only missed #3 also...Again I wouldn't get picky with the Caddis since you can't see the bottom.

Steveo got I think 4 right...unless you count Boxing it where he had like 12 :lol:

That was fun Sal

I have to make note that I am not crazy about the #3 being called a grey drake. I have to look into that one. I mean come on...a big fat thorax and and the entire fly is not longer than 1/2". (the size of my index fingernail, anyway)

 

[salvelinusfontinalis]

you did better than i would have. ;-)

glad you guys enjoyed it!

i agree Maurice i was curious about the gray drake also. But thats what they said it was *shrugs*. If you do look into it...let me know what you find out. thanks.

 

[David]

Nice job Maurice!!!

 

[sandfly]

gray drake here is different than out west #3 looks like a western one.

 

[Maurice]

Sandfly,

Thats what I thought too....after looking at the Trout nut site. I felt that the one most closely resembling the one Sal posted was the Drunella (BWO) but this has three tails and Sals has two.

The Pseudo Grey Drake is close but is too long >5/8" and has mottled wings.

I've see the one Sal posted on Kettle 15 years ago and tied #14 BWO's for them. Never saw one again until last year when it was the hatch buster on the Gunpowder in the middle of a sulphur hatch.

Here are pics of the TroutNut.com bugs. And I will try to get Sals bug in last.

 

[JackM]

In playing the game of what difference do you notice, I see the minor wing is more than half the size of the major wing on the final picture, compared to the drunella, which is less than half. The psuedos are mottled, as Maurice notes, so I don't think that is a match.

 

[tomgamber]

adams, BWO, gray wulff...all I need to know.


However I think the first one of the three is Callibaetis, at least as the western version. It was THE fly on lakes above 7000 feet. Here I can only find them calling it a speckled wing east..?...? anyway....

 

[tomgamber]

Of course, now I see what jack saw in that fly and the second wing is almost non existent..

Hers another pic of a western slate drake...looking at the background alone (on the original pic) I think its this western pattern.

 

[Maurice]

tom, thats a slate drake...white gloved howdy, dude. Check out the tips of the forelegs.

I see what Jack is saying too about the secondary wing size. Good spot Jack...like I said, I don't know. All I know is that Drakes are considered "large" flies and the one listed as the grey drake is like #14-#16

 

[tomgamber]

also number 8 has 2 tails and 10 has three...can they both be slates?

just notices sal gave the answers...duh

I didn't bother because I usually suck at these things but I was surprised that I actually got more than half right guessing. I usually just ask, "dude, how big and what color is it?"

 

[Maurice]

Slates have two tails....#10 is a Blue Quill. Much smaller fly than a slate drake but the photos show no scale so its tough. I didn't see that third tail till you pointed it out. I WAG'ed it a rfemale slate drake. Blue quills are a mystery to me. I've seen scads of spinners but obviously not the duns