Aquatic bug · Aquatic insect
Elmidae
Elmidae
Always there
No hatch and no season — this is in the water every month of the year, so it's always a fair bet when nothing is showing on top.
How fish feed on it
It rows about in the shallows with a bubble of air held under its body, which is what gives it away — a small, purposeful, jerky movement rather than a drift. Trout take them with intent. Fish an imitation in short pulls with pauses, close to weed and margins, and let it rise between pulls the way the real thing does.
Flies that imitate this
No patterns mapped to this stage yet.