OK....I should have taken a picture...I will from now on
Can you guess what this was from my description please? It was in the mouth of a fish..just taken it....on a stillwater.

length .... about three quarters of an inch

Proportions.....One fifth head, four fifths long tapered body...flatish... elongated triangle shape of body.

Head colour....brown on the back of the neck with wee stumpy "golden ish" legs below,,,head generally golden in colour.

Body.....segmented effect....dark blue dun on top, light blue dun below. "Rib" looked a very light grey.

That's the best description I can give I'm afraid, but maybe someone can get it from that !!

Thanks........

Was it taken in a fastish flowing river or stream?

If so sounds like one of the 'clinger' family nymphs. e.g. March Brown.

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Maybe a darter/skimmer dragonfly nymph.

Thanks to all so far.....from my own "Google-ing" I think it might have been a caseless caddis larva ?? (it was from a "rich" stillwater) From what I'm gathering they come in many,many colour combinations ?? It certainly wasn't of the short fat hairy variety, but did seem to have wee hairy legs down the sides of the body as well, but you only noticed those when it was in the water......if I come across them again, I'll try a macro photograph of them. I was really interested in this because I caught fish at both ends of the lake (it's about 60 acres) and they were all spitting out the same thing. Any flies hatching were small, and certainly were not coming from this relatively big creature !

Thanks again..........

Alderfly Nymph?

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Oops! Just read the still water bit... that kind of rules out March Brown nymphs.

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Dragogonfly nymph? Limited distribution, North Wales only.

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BD - dragogonfly had me thinking for a while

Fishtales - that's a good call.

Ray

Alderfly larva looks very close indeed, just slight differences in colour but I'm sure there are regional differences etc. Also, the lighting in the (excellent ) photograph makes a big difference, and the one I took from the fishe's mouth probably wasn't in the full glow of health so to speak ( it was still fit to wriggle though).

So FT, it's a Blue Peter badge to you I think Well done and thanks to all for trying.

PS I didn't know Alder larva were that big....maybe just big ones in this lough . It also gets a big hatch of stone fly, which I'm told has a very big nymph as well. Must get a kiddies fishing net out and do some exploring....it is bound to help in tying up the correct tone / colour / contrast / size of flies

The reason I thought Alder is that they should be hatching about this time. The larvae swim towards the shore to change into the adult and the fish take them as they swim under the surface. I was round my local loch this morning and there was an adult in the visitor centre on one of the windows

One I took earlier

Inchnadamph May 2005.

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