[Video] Collecting Trout Stream Aquatic Insects

A Prelude of Spring Time Hatches!

This video reminded me of all the good things that come with Spring; like trout streams loaded with aquatic insects that have been relatively dormant all winter and are getting ready to do their thing.

Excerpt from video description on YouTube

The water temperature was at 34f and I did most of my collecting from a lip on the head of a pool in about 10-15 inches of water. The bottom substrate was a mix of silt, small gravel, dinner plate size flat rocks and some aquatic vegetation. I found the highest concentration of insects in the fine silt and gravel buried under the larger rocks, nearest the aquatic vegetation.

Some of the insects feature include:

Stoneflies - Capnia and Acroneuria genus
Mayflies - Stenacron, Caenis, Ephemerella and Isonychia genus
Caddis Larva - Hydropsychide and Limnephilidae family
Crane Fly Larva

These aquatic insect larvae were collected in Western New York from a spring fed headwaters that eventually flows into one of Lake Erie's largest tributaries.

If you have been hunkered down all winter, it is time to get off your duff and get out there!