mayfly -- looks to be male, but I don't know

[TurbineBlade]

Anyone know this one?  

[Casey Peltier]

Go to Troutnut.com, the best bug site on the web. Look around while you're there and you might find your answer. If not, post the photo, and bug guys from Maine to Hawaii will chime in.

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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 04:03:14 -0800
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Subject: {Tidal Potomac Fly Rodders} mayfly -- looks to be male, but I don't know

Anyone know this one?  

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[Carl Z.]

About a size 18 cream mayfly :)  What more do you need to know?

trico or pmd?

I practice flybox entamology.

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[Misha Gill]

Definitely male from the big eyes. My guess is it's a spent BWO because of the wing color, small size and the three tails. Good fishing could be had if you came upon a spinner fall of these, but otherwise there's not much point imitating them. I've never seen a spinner fall of any species. 

On Thursday, November 13, 2014 7:03:14 AM UTC-5, TurbineBlade wrote:

Anyone know this one?  

[Misha Gill]

I take it back, I did see a trico spinner fall once on Letort Spring Run. I've heard of good spinner falls of Sulphurs on the South Holston tailwater. For spinner falls the conditions really have to be perfect and everything has to come together, making them pretty rare occurrences. 

[Yambag Nelson]

If you are fishing tricos, you are pretty much always fishing the spinner falls.

 

I have never heard of anyone fishing a blue wing olive spinner fall specifically, but spinner falls of other mayflies are extremely common and are often the most important phase of a hatch.