A few olives

[clay tonian]

In case you’ve never seen this, it’s the start of a blanket hatch of mayflies on the Henry’s Fork of the Snake River in eastern Idaho.



My best guess on the species is labiobaetis propinquus, formerly pseudocloen. I’m not an entomologist, so it’s just a researched guess.

They are tiny. And there are billions of ‘em.




Sorry for the limitations of my point-and-shoot

 

[Critter]

Never seen any thing like that, very cool. I take i5 you caught fish ?

 

[flav]

Gotta love baetis. Ive never been on the HF in the fall, but those photos get me interested in visiting again sometime. On my local streams the little olives hatch almost daily from October through April. That makes for 7+ months of pretty reliable dry fly action. I pack #18 olive parachutes in my dry fly box every month of the year.