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Location: Elkhart, IN | I hope the picture shows up on this.
What is this thing? It crawled into my boat and fished with me all day. I don't think it's a mayfly. Anyone have any ideas?
Brian
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Location: Valentine, NE USA | How long was it? Is that a wing case or tail-thingy in the pic?
It sort of looks like a Hellgremite (stonefly nymph) but your're in the wrong part of the country for those...
Could be a dragonfly nymph.
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| If my college entomology serves me correctly if would say that is either a caddis fly (Tricoptera) or a dammel fly (Zygotera). If the tail filiments number 2 it is on of the above, but if it has 3 filiments it is a Ephemeroptera --a type of mayfly |
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Location: Stevens Point, WI | Looks like a Damsel Fly nymph to me. |
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Location: Ogden, Ut | I'm pretty sure it's a mayfly nymph (Ephemeroptera) of some sort, if it had three tail filaments, it almost certainly was. Caddis (Trichoptera) nymphs are generally more 'worm-like', and having small hooks on the last tail segment. Stonefly (Plecoptera) nymphs look superficially like mayfly nymphs but only have two tail filaments, and pretty obvious wing pads. You can't really see the detail that well in the picture, so it may have been one of those. I don't think it was Slamr though. How was it with the net?
Please pardon any misspellings, aquatic entomology was many years ago....
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Location: WI | uh, just a insect layman here, but what is a filament and how do you count one???? |
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Location: Pound, WI | And I thought jlong was a geek for all his barometric pressure equations. You guys have him beat by a long shot. 
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Location: Hoboken, NJ / North Webster, IN | First one is mayfly nymph....second is plecoptera
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Location: Elkhart, IN | Hi,
Thanks for the replies.
It was about 1/2 to 3/4 long without the tail.
The thing crawled into the boat with me. I think it scared all of the fish away. That must be why I didn't catch anything that day.  It did stay right where I could keep my eye on it all day long though.
I don't know if it had one, two or three tails. It was wet and looked mean. But not as mean as that snake someone caught last week.
It looks more like the Plectoplotopus thing Muskiefishman posted. It had a big head like that.
I am almost positive it was not a mayfly. I've used wigglers before and this thing did not look like those at all.
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Over 300 views of a bug?? It must have been a long off season. I think we need to get out fishing more. |
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