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John Venlet
John Venlet
19 hours ago

Glad you liked the photo, DT. Yeah, that mayfly is definitely a Green Drake, but many folks refer to mayflies in general, especially when the huge hatches which occur around say, Houghton Lake, or up in Alpena, or even south by Cedar Springs as fishflies. That Green Drake is just hatched, watched it climb from its nymphal shuck, take flight, and to my knee it went. It’ll fly to the trees, molt, its wings will change from the mottled look to clear, then it’ll fly back over the creek mate, and then die. Trout love ’em!

DT
DT
15 hours ago
Reply to  John Venlet

My fishfly-collecting years were spent north of Detroit just off Lake St Clair. I knew them as fishflies before I heard mayflies.

Yep – nice photo. I don’t insist on posting only my stuff; the more the merrier.