2. Eastern Blue-Winged Olives:
(Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Drunella
M201 cornuta
cornutella
walkeri
longicornis
lata
Small Eastern Blue-Winged Olives:
Ephemerellidae:
Attenella
M202 attenuata
3. Small Western Green Drakes
(Blue-Winged Olives): (Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Drunella
M301 favilinea
spinifera
coloradensis
4. Callibaetis: (Swimmers)
Baetidae:
Callibaetis:
M401 pacifica
coloradensis
nigritus
skokianus
americanus
5. Western Green Drakes:
(Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Drunella:
M501 grandis
doddsi
6. Large Dark Hendrickson (Great
Red Quill): (Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Timpanoga
M601 hecuba
7. Eastern Green Drakes:
(Burrowing)
Ephemeridae:
Ephemera:
M701 guttulata
8. Gray Drakes (Black Drakes)
(Swimmers)
Siphlonuridae:
Siphlonurus
M801 alternatus
occidentalis
columbianus
spectabilis
M802 rapidus
quebecensis
mirus
9. Slate Drake: (Swimmers)
Siphlonuridae:
Isonychia
M901 bicolor
10. Brown Drake: (Burrowers)
Ephemeridae:
Ephemera
M1001 simulans
11. Yellow Drake: (Burrowers)
Ephemeridae:
Ephemera:
M1101 varia
12. Golden Drake: (Burrowers)
Potamanthidae:
Anthopotamus
M1201 distinctus
13. Great Olive-Winged Drake
(Michigan Caddis): (Burrowers)
Ephemeridae:
Hexagenia:
M1301 limbata
Big Slate Drake:
Hexagenia:
M1302 atrocaudata
Giaint Dark Green Drake:
Hexagenia:
M1303 rigida
14. Dark Green Drake: (Burrowers)
Ephemeridae:
Litlobrancha:
M1401 recurvata:
15. Brown Duns: (Swimmers)
Ameletidae:
Ameletus:
M1501 velox:
ludens
cooki
16. Chocolate Duns (Male) and
Olive Sulphurs (Female):
(Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Ephemerella:
M1601 needhami:
17. Hendickson (Female) and Red
Quill (Male): (Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Ephemerella:
M1701 subvaria
Little Dark Hendrickson:
Serratella:
M1702 deficiens
serrata
Small Western Dark Hendrickson:
Serratella:
M1703 tibialis
18. Slate Duns (Quill Gordons)
(Yellow Quills) (Clingers):
Quill Gordons:
Heptageniidae:
Epeorus:
M1801 pleuralis
Quill Gordons (Light Cahill)
Epeorus:
M1802 vitreus
Slate Duns
Epeorus:
M1803 longgimanus
Yellow Quills:
Epeorus:
M1804 albertae
hesperus
youngi
19. March Browns (Western March
Browns) (Clingers)
Heptageniidae:
Rhithrogena:
M1901 morrisoni
hageni
undulata
20. American March Browns: (Gray
Fox): (Clingers)
Heptageniidae:
Maccaffertium:
M2001 vicarium (fuscum)
Cream Cahills:
Maccaffertium:
M2002 modestum
mexicanum
mediopuncatum
femoratum
Light Cahills:
Maccaffertium:
M2003 ithaca
pulchellum
Light Cahills:
Stenacron:
M2004 interpunctatum
21. Western Ginger Quills, (Dark
Red Quills): (Clingers)
Heptageniidae:
Cinygmula:
M2101 reticulata
Dark Red Quill:
Cinygmula:
M2102 subaequalis
Dark Red Quill:
Cinygmula:
M2103 ramaleyi
22. Pale Evening Duns: (Clingers)
Heptageniidae:
Heptagenia:
M2201 elegantula
solitaria
pulla
23. Sulphur Duns (Eastern Pale
Evening Duns): (Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Ephemerella:
M2301 dorothea
24. Eastern Pale Evening Duns
(Sulphur Duns): (Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Ephemerella:
M2401 suptentrionalis
rotunda
invaria (invaria and rotunda are now
the same species)
25. Pale Morning Duns: (Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Ephemerella:
M2501 infrequens
inermis
26. Blue Quills: (Crawlers)
Leptophlebiidae:
Paraleptophlebia:
M2601 adoptive
Mahogany Duns:
Paraleptophlebia:
M2602 debilis
mollis
memorialis
guttata
vaciva
bicornula
heteronea
27. Little Yellow Quills: (Clingers)
Heptageniidae:
Leucrocuta:
M2701 aphrodite
hebe
juno
minerva
28. Tricos: (White-Winged Curse)
(Crawlers)
Leptohyplidae:
Tricorythodes:
M2801 minutus
stygiatus
allectus
fictus
29. White Drakes: (Burrowers)
Polymitarcydae:
Ephoron:
M2901 leukon
album
Total of 43 sets of patterns
(Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Drunella
M201 cornuta
cornutella
walkeri
longicornis
lata
Small Eastern Blue-Winged Olives:
Ephemerellidae:
Attenella
M202 attenuata
3. Small Western Green Drakes
(Blue-Winged Olives): (Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Drunella
M301 favilinea
spinifera
coloradensis
4. Callibaetis: (Swimmers)
Baetidae:
Callibaetis:
M401 pacifica
coloradensis
nigritus
skokianus
americanus
5. Western Green Drakes:
(Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Drunella:
M501 grandis
doddsi
6. Large Dark Hendrickson (Great
Red Quill): (Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Timpanoga
M601 hecuba
7. Eastern Green Drakes:
(Burrowing)
Ephemeridae:
Ephemera:
M701 guttulata
8. Gray Drakes (Black Drakes)
(Swimmers)
Siphlonuridae:
Siphlonurus
M801 alternatus
occidentalis
columbianus
spectabilis
M802 rapidus
quebecensis
mirus
9. Slate Drake: (Swimmers)
Siphlonuridae:
Isonychia
M901 bicolor
10. Brown Drake: (Burrowers)
Ephemeridae:
Ephemera
M1001 simulans
11. Yellow Drake: (Burrowers)
Ephemeridae:
Ephemera:
M1101 varia
12. Golden Drake: (Burrowers)
Potamanthidae:
Anthopotamus
M1201 distinctus
13. Great Olive-Winged Drake
(Michigan Caddis): (Burrowers)
Ephemeridae:
Hexagenia:
M1301 limbata
Big Slate Drake:
Hexagenia:
M1302 atrocaudata
Giaint Dark Green Drake:
Hexagenia:
M1303 rigida
14. Dark Green Drake: (Burrowers)
Ephemeridae:
Litlobrancha:
M1401 recurvata:
15. Brown Duns: (Swimmers)
Ameletidae:
Ameletus:
M1501 velox:
ludens
cooki
16. Chocolate Duns (Male) and
Olive Sulphurs (Female):
(Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Ephemerella:
M1601 needhami:
17. Hendickson (Female) and Red
Quill (Male): (Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Ephemerella:
M1701 subvaria
Little Dark Hendrickson:
Serratella:
M1702 deficiens
serrata
Small Western Dark Hendrickson:
Serratella:
M1703 tibialis
18. Slate Duns (Quill Gordons)
(Yellow Quills) (Clingers):
Quill Gordons:
Heptageniidae:
Epeorus:
M1801 pleuralis
Quill Gordons (Light Cahill)
Epeorus:
M1802 vitreus
Slate Duns
Epeorus:
M1803 longgimanus
Yellow Quills:
Epeorus:
M1804 albertae
hesperus
youngi
19. March Browns (Western March
Browns) (Clingers)
Heptageniidae:
Rhithrogena:
M1901 morrisoni
hageni
undulata
20. American March Browns: (Gray
Fox): (Clingers)
Heptageniidae:
Maccaffertium:
M2001 vicarium (fuscum)
Cream Cahills:
Maccaffertium:
M2002 modestum
mexicanum
mediopuncatum
femoratum
Light Cahills:
Maccaffertium:
M2003 ithaca
pulchellum
Light Cahills:
Stenacron:
M2004 interpunctatum
21. Western Ginger Quills, (Dark
Red Quills): (Clingers)
Heptageniidae:
Cinygmula:
M2101 reticulata
Dark Red Quill:
Cinygmula:
M2102 subaequalis
Dark Red Quill:
Cinygmula:
M2103 ramaleyi
22. Pale Evening Duns: (Clingers)
Heptageniidae:
Heptagenia:
M2201 elegantula
solitaria
pulla
23. Sulphur Duns (Eastern Pale
Evening Duns): (Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Ephemerella:
M2301 dorothea
24. Eastern Pale Evening Duns
(Sulphur Duns): (Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Ephemerella:
M2401 suptentrionalis
rotunda
invaria (invaria and rotunda are now
the same species)
25. Pale Morning Duns: (Crawlers)
Ephemerellidae:
Ephemerella:
M2501 infrequens
inermis
26. Blue Quills: (Crawlers)
Leptophlebiidae:
Paraleptophlebia:
M2601 adoptive
Mahogany Duns:
Paraleptophlebia:
M2602 debilis
mollis
memorialis
guttata
vaciva
bicornula
heteronea
27. Little Yellow Quills: (Clingers)
Heptageniidae:
Leucrocuta:
M2701 aphrodite
hebe
juno
minerva
28. Tricos: (White-Winged Curse)
(Crawlers)
Leptohyplidae:
Tricorythodes:
M2801 minutus
stygiatus
allectus
fictus
29. White Drakes: (Burrowers)
Polymitarcydae:
Ephoron:
M2901 leukon
album
Total of 43 sets of patterns
Perfect Fly Mayfly Patterns:
"Nb" (Bottom Nymph) Is the "Perfect Fly"
symbol for a pattern representing the
nymph prior to the time the mayfly begins
to emerge. We have 6 basic patterns:
"Perfect Swimmer"
"Perfect Super Swimmer Nymph"
"Perfect Crawler Nymph"
"Perfect Super Crawler Nymph"
"Perfect Clinger Nymph"
"Perfect Burrower"
"Ne" (Emerging Nymph) is the Perfect
Fly symbol for a pattern representing the
nymph during the time it is about to
emerge. It has its wings unfolding and its
body partially out of the shuck. We have
one basic pattern:
"Perfect Emerger".
"Nt" (Nymph with a Trailing Shuck) is the
Perfect Fly symbol for a pattern
representing the nymph that is almost a
dun, with its shuck still hanging on. We
have two basic patterns:
"Perfect TS Emerger"
"Perfect Super TS Emerger"
"D" (Dun) is the Perfect Fly symbol for a
pattern representing the dun. We have
two basic patterns:
"Perfect Dun"
"Perfect Drake"
"S" (Spinner) is the Perfect Fly symbol
for a pattern representing the spinner.
We have two basic patterns:
"Perfect Spinner"
"Perfect Drake Spinner"
"Ea" (Emerging Adult) A few mayflies
emerge into duns on the bottom or
somewhere between the surface and the
bottom. These emerging duns look quite
different from the dun after its wings
have dried and it has flown away to the
bushes along the banks. The "Perfect
Wet Dun", represents those duns that
emerge below the surface skim and
those spinners that dive to the bottom to
deposit their eggs.
"Perfect Wet Dun"
Number of Patterns:
For each "M" number, there are up to six
different basic "Perfect Fly" patterns
representing the different stages of life
of that specie or group of very similar
species. Although that sounds like a lot
of patterns, many of them are just
different recipes of the same basic
pattern usually with only a color variation.
By varying the color of the materials
used and the hook sizes,these (14)
fourteen basic patterns cover ever
mayfly that trout feed on in the United
States in all the stages of life that trout
are involved with.
"Nb" (Bottom Nymph) Is the "Perfect Fly"
symbol for a pattern representing the
nymph prior to the time the mayfly begins
to emerge. We have 6 basic patterns:
"Perfect Swimmer"
"Perfect Super Swimmer Nymph"
"Perfect Crawler Nymph"
"Perfect Super Crawler Nymph"
"Perfect Clinger Nymph"
"Perfect Burrower"
"Ne" (Emerging Nymph) is the Perfect
Fly symbol for a pattern representing the
nymph during the time it is about to
emerge. It has its wings unfolding and its
body partially out of the shuck. We have
one basic pattern:
"Perfect Emerger".
"Nt" (Nymph with a Trailing Shuck) is the
Perfect Fly symbol for a pattern
representing the nymph that is almost a
dun, with its shuck still hanging on. We
have two basic patterns:
"Perfect TS Emerger"
"Perfect Super TS Emerger"
"D" (Dun) is the Perfect Fly symbol for a
pattern representing the dun. We have
two basic patterns:
"Perfect Dun"
"Perfect Drake"
"S" (Spinner) is the Perfect Fly symbol
for a pattern representing the spinner.
We have two basic patterns:
"Perfect Spinner"
"Perfect Drake Spinner"
"Ea" (Emerging Adult) A few mayflies
emerge into duns on the bottom or
somewhere between the surface and the
bottom. These emerging duns look quite
different from the dun after its wings
have dried and it has flown away to the
bushes along the banks. The "Perfect
Wet Dun", represents those duns that
emerge below the surface skim and
those spinners that dive to the bottom to
deposit their eggs.
"Perfect Wet Dun"
Number of Patterns:
For each "M" number, there are up to six
different basic "Perfect Fly" patterns
representing the different stages of life
of that specie or group of very similar
species. Although that sounds like a lot
of patterns, many of them are just
different recipes of the same basic
pattern usually with only a color variation.
By varying the color of the materials
used and the hook sizes,these (14)
fourteen basic patterns cover ever
mayfly that trout feed on in the United
States in all the stages of life that trout
are involved with.
Copyright 2006 James Marsh
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1. Blue-Winged Olives:
(Swimmers)
Baetidae:
M101
Beatis:
tricaudatus
bicaudatus
flavistriga
punctiventris
futile
dubium
bunnenicolor
intercalaris
flavistriga
Little Blue-Winged Olives:
Acentrella, Diphetor, Plauditus &
Timpanoga:
M102
Plauditus veteris
Timpanoga simplex
lita
hecuba hecuba
hecuba pacifica
Acentrella turbida
carolina
Diphetor hageni
devinctus
(Swimmers)
Baetidae:
M101
Beatis:
tricaudatus
bicaudatus
flavistriga
punctiventris
futile
dubium
bunnenicolor
intercalaris
flavistriga
Little Blue-Winged Olives:
Acentrella, Diphetor, Plauditus &
Timpanoga:
M102
Plauditus veteris
Timpanoga simplex
lita
hecuba hecuba
hecuba pacifica
Acentrella turbida
carolina
Diphetor hageni
devinctus
Mayfly List:
Each "M" number represents a set of
patterns with 6 possible patterns per
set for the various stages of life.
Each "M" number represents a set of
patterns with 6 possible patterns per
set for the various stages of life.