Tim Smith 0 Report post Posted December 16, 2004 What are some of the better books for doing BMI identification, especially mayfly, stone fly and Caddis nymphs. im trying to id a majority of the critters that are in this local area as it has not been done before -T Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Crotalus 0 Report post Posted December 16, 2004 This book covers a lot of mayfly and caddis insects. I dont know if it covers stoneflies or not. It is a really good book but i havent gotten very far into it to know exactly what it covers. Hatch Guide for New England Streams (Ames & Tibbets) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Steeldrifter 0 Report post Posted December 16, 2004 Trout stream insects is a small but very helpful book. Also the "hatch guide" i believe its called??? is a helpful little book to keep in the back of your vest. SD Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lance Kekel 0 Report post Posted December 17, 2004 Dick Pobst does a pair of books one on mayflies and one on caddis flies. Very good books, I still keep the mayflies book in my vest. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taxon 0 Report post Posted December 17, 2004 Tim- Here is a link to a page on my site that will likely give you more information on aquatic insect identification books than you care to know. http://www.flyfishingentomology.com/Recommended%20Books.htm If I am wrong, feel free to email me with followup questions. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sandflyx 0 Report post Posted December 17, 2004 Caddisflies by Gary LaFontaine, Stoneflies by Swisher,Richards,and Arbona, Aquatic Entolmology by W. Patrick McCafferty(the entolmoligist bible) Hatches and Hatches 2 by Caucci and Natasi, last the # 1 book by the entolomoligist of our times------Nymphs by Ernest Schwiebert... These are all you need to identifiy insects.. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted December 17, 2004 Sandflyx, My exact picks, Thanks for saving me typing errrrors. Merry Christmas to All, John Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
keith 0 Report post Posted December 18, 2004 Sandflyx, Thanks for the advice. I think these would make nice additions to any library. Keith Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Report post Posted December 18, 2004 Hatches II and Selective Trout. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JasonN 0 Report post Posted January 14, 2005 Hatches II is definitely one of the best. Also, "Mayflies, the Angler, and the Trout" by Fred Arbona. Also, "Mayflies: An Angler's Study of Trout Water Ephemeroptera" by Knopp & Cormier. Those are by far the three most useful books for practical identification right now... it's be hard to put them in order actually. I hope to make my site a better identification resource than all of them this summer. I'm going to create a species key with all the raw information I can find from thousands of pages of scientific papers I'm photocopying. It's a huge project I'm doing this summer. I want to make it as easy as possible to identify stuff correctly, cause even with the three good books above it's really hard in most cases and very often impossible to get it correct. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites