Many many years ago, I remember a co-worker of mine telling me about catching a bunch of gills, crackers and crappie on a nearby lake. He told me about these black flylike bugs falling into the water off the trees and the fish tearing them up! At that time, we fished with spinning rods and a tiny black feather jig called a "popeye". I will try to post a picture of a "popeye" later. Over the years, I have seen these flies on this lake but never paid much attention until I got interested in fly fishing and bugs. I caught one (a bug) and gave it to my wife who works for the University of Ky. She sent it off to the "bug man". He contacted me the other day and said it was a Stonefly. Does anyone else have any stories about panfish and stoneflies? Also would find some "simple" life cycle info about these flys. Nymph stages etc. I did a search for some info but some off the info is "too much information". I would like to hear it from a fishermans point of view.