I was on a uk forum and a poster had these from a pumped fish. I’ve never seen mids with legs, these are still sub emergers and so I need to look more carefully. Pretty cool I thought.
Dave
Dave
Legs on mids?
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Bambooflyguy
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I wonder if these are crane fly pupae/emergers?
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Dunno, I’m ignorant, I think more chiro based on everything else re their look and crane fly are terrestrial bugs so the emergers wouldn’t be in the lake but who knows, those legs…
We need Taxon
Dave
Don’t crane fly pupae or larvae kind of look like a grub?
SF
SF
Cool! Looks to be a mix of stages in the photos. The legs make me think chironomid emergers and adults. I see plenty of pupae as well.
First tying on wing buds, now also straggly legs….it never ends. Burnt orange thread will not also cover this
it never ends…we’ll be tying soft hackles next. Dave
Bambooflyguy
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Wow…I just googled “crane fly” and there’s 15,500 species! Some live in the water and yes some live in my yard eating the grass roots so the frickin crows tear up everything hunting them. Some guys at a select lake in Tumwater tie crane fly pupae, they look like a small yellow grub. Some crane flies are in the Diptera family and I consider these as the mother of all midges! Google says some wing spans can be 4”+! That’s some big ass dry flies!!
Yes, a cool photo, Dave. I agree with TP. Looks to me that the legs are attached to adults with freshly unfurled, wispy wings.
