Excellent naturals resource (and quiz)

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11-10-2005, 12:39 PM

Excellent naturals resource (and quiz)

Take a look at this site:
[url=http://www.rayswords.com/bugs/bugs.htm:3a0da]http://www.rayswords.com/bugs/bugs.htm[/url:3a0da]

It has a large number of good photos of naturals, and an identification quiz. Click on your choice under the pic in the main frame and it'll tell you if you're correct.

I haven't gone through all of them yet, but I did the first 30 and missed 3 IDs.

Here's a sample:

http://www.rayswords.com/bugs/images/21.jpg

[This message has been edited by bartleby (edited 10 November 2005).]
11-10-2005, 05:11 PM
mantis

Yikes, 6 wrong! Never heard of a watersnipe or fishfly...They threw me... had to just guess. GREAT POST!
11-10-2005, 05:33 PM
rriver

Excellent. I scored ok, but I am constantly looking at reference books to help my color/profile selections when tying. I got about 75% I think. This is a great little reference.

I missed the oddballs that I would never tie.

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- rriver

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11-10-2005, 07:24 PM

I guessed right on a couple of the weird ones, which helped me when different versions showed up later.

You may have noticed that this wasn't designed as a fishing resource. It's just a neat feature of a stream conservation program.
11-10-2005, 07:30 PM
rriver

Its great though. Sometimes (at least I do) we tend to concentrate on the fly, rather than what we are actually imitating. I don't go for realistic tying, but I think profile, size and color are important.

These are some of the better photos I have seen.

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- rriver
11-10-2005, 09:04 PM
ny angler

I did allot better than i thought ....think i missed 5.But then again I'm weird i like entomology

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Mike
11-11-2005, 07:28 AM
Taxon

The quiz is very nicely done. If one's score on the quiz is not as good as desired, the pdf file contains useful drawings of the various stream macro-invertebrates. Nice posting.

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Taxon
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11-11-2005, 10:05 AM
nighthawk

Good post. Did better than I expected.

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Eric "nighthawk"

It's a great day for fly fishing!