The Brown Dun (Ameletus sp.) made its appearance on Super Bowl Sunday.

Sunny August isn’t exactly the peak season for mayfly hatches, but some interesting species show themselves.

Mid-March to mid-April can be March Brown time on many Western streams including the Deschutes River in Central Oregon, shown here.

Try some of the patterns below as alternatives when your other patterns fail.

The family Empididae is a common but little known group of Diptera, commonly called Dance Flies, for their dance-like flight just above the water’s surface.

Besides stoneflies, riffles and runs are full of caddis larvae! And you can match most of the with a Green Rock Worm nymph pattern.

This calm lake yielded the mayfly dun Dave and I had waited over ten years to find and photograph!

Baetis sp. AKA the blue-winged olive are on the water now!

Atherix sp. AKA a Snipe Fly!

Ephemerella excrucians, PMD’s, look for them for the next four weeks!