Midges & Crane Flies ( Aquatic Diptera) The subject of aquatic Diptera is vast, fascinating and much too comprehensive to treat here, except in a most general manner. Most Diptera are not associated with trout waters but are slow water species of the warmer climates. Thus we will limit our discussion to those that seem to important to the diet of the trout: midges and cr...
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Stone Flies (Plecoptera) Stone flies are primitive insects, fossils show that they have existed for 220 million years; Stone flies generally represent a much smaller percentage of the trout's diet than do May flies and caddis flies. This type of generality can be quite misleading however, forever if stone flies represented less than 10 percent of the trout's diet on a particular stream, it is quite possible to arrive on the...
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