wrote...
I googled "March Brown" under google images. Are these the same animal?

To be honest with you, I am still up in the air about this. The
link that Chas provided was very helpful and according to it wayno
pretty much nailed the ID. I followed the "tutorial" kind of thing
to ID bugs and it spit out Epeorus and Western Quill Gordon. It
wasn't an Epeorus albertae (yellow quill) as wayno suggested, but he
nailed two out of the three (props to uncle wayno!). According to
the site, a March Brown has three tails (one of the traits I was
taught) and so the insect that I took the pic of could not possibly
be a March Brown. I am still waiting to hear back from the
entomologist though. I am wondering if I ever will hear back from
him and would understand if I never do, but I still doubt that what
I learned originally is correct. I have received a couple of emails
from people that agreed with wayno and so that is comforting. At
least I have some sort of consensus to fall back on. ;-)

My trip to the library was uneventful and I found myself easily
distracted by numerous other topics. Those damn libraries **** me
off! It is like going to a buffet that serves everything that you
have ever liked eating and would love to eat again, but they serve
it all at the same time! I could easily keep myself busy in the MSU
library for a month without ever leaving provided someone brought me
food and drink, paid my bills, shuttled my daughter back and forth,
and provided accommodations for the two of us. The "fishing"
section really had me interested with several famous tomes that I
have yet to read. I never thought they had *that* many books that
relate to fly fishing in one way or another. Just freakin'
incredible. They even had the Fly Tyer's Bench side Reference and I
used it to look up a fly tying technique for a pattern I found at
the library that I couldn't wait to get home to look up how to tie.

*******S! G
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Warren
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