Local lake fishing this morning and IDENTIFY THIS BUG !!!!

[FishFreak]

Decided to hit the local lake here in town, As i was gonna go to kawkawa but forgot there was a cnaucks game on at 12:00 today , so wanting to be home to watch the Nucks game i didnt venture out to far this morning. I was on the lake for first light, saw a few risers , i tried Doc spratleys in red/black/green nothing, tried leach's woolybuggers still nothing, so i kicked around and saw some bugs wiggiling on the water surface , only saw about 9 or 10 risers so i threw on a dry fly a very small one and slowly trolled around the lake, finally got one tug missed it, about 2 minutes later i see this big swirl behind my dry fly wait for the line to tighten and wack !!!!! fish on, Nice little rain bow that came off about half way to the boat.... fun morning this morning.... still pretty cold out there

Anyway Im still trying to learn all my bugs and Stillwater patterns.

This is the fly i got the fish on this morning



So i scooped up this bug this morning , I imagined this is what the trout were breaking water for as there was quite a few of them on the water.

No idea what this bug is maybe you guys cant help me out as to what it is and what fly immitates it the best

[okanagan trout]

I have not seen one before either as i fish the okanagan. With those legs all over i am wondering if it is a crane fly?????

[FishFreak]

Here is a pic of the closest bug to what i found, its some sort of chronomid, there was quite a few of them on the lake this morning and this afternoon, so i tied up a few black chronomids with some white antron ontop and the trout were all over them.. The one i found its hard to see the wings on it as they were all crinkled up.

[flyfisher3000]

The fly in your hand is a caddis pattern and the insect is a midge.Go into stillwater patterns and then under chironomids.Good luck good fish and release your catch.

[knotnot]

This is what i found on a site I like to check out.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/16545

[FishFreak]

thats a nice website and that bug on there is an exact match as to what i found this morning, so now , what type of fly pattern would you tie to match the bug ?? Small Black Chronomids ??

[okanagan trout]

Man Do I Feel Dumb Today, This Is Why I Should Not Go On The Computer Before I Wake Up

[gbskunk]

Man Do I Feel Dumb Today, This Is Why I Should Not Go On The Computer Before I Wake Up

I'd say Caddis or Mayfly. Earlier this week I was swarmed at a Fraser Valley Lake by Mayfly's. Your pattern suggest Caddis but the pic on you figure looks more like a mayfly.

[FishFreak]

where is Fraser Valley lake ? or you just saying as you were at a lake in the fraser valley

[professori]

It is quite hard to tell in the photograph, but it could also be a male mosquito. The one diagnostic that I can't distinguish, is which pair of legs is raised. When alit, the chironomids sit on their back 4 legs with the fronts raised, of on all six legs (depending on the specific chironomid). Mosquitoes sit on their front 4 legs with the rears elevated.