Dont laugh boys. On my regular river, i rarely, if ever see sedges, so i'm no expert, hence the question.

On another river, with which i am just becoming familiar ( The Mulcair, Abingdon area, Limerick ) , there was a lot of fly life yesterday evening ( including some huge looking duns - mayflies at dusk ? ) , but the fly that i caught most regularly by hand had flat opaque wings on its back ( not roof shaped like a sedge ) , mid green with a light green ball at end of tail, three sets of legs ( short ) , and two small antennae.

Does this qualify as a sedge ? I'm thinking not.....any ideas ?

(More to the point, why would the little sods not take my green klink ? )

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could it have been one of the larger summer chrinomids. In flight they look more 'interesting' than you average midge . They are about 1cm in length they have graspers at the rear that could look like a ball, but thinking about it the legs would be too long for your discription. would you say the body was wide or slender?

could it be the green lace wing?


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if it is they eat small aphids on the trees and only get on the water when blown on. (And the ball on the end of the tail confuses me). Your fish would have been feeding on something else or be non specific I would think if these were around.

Cheers Pom, reckon it could have been a biggish lacewing. It just didnt have the roof shaped wings for starters....

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Sounds more like a female Stonefly to me. Was it like this?


SharkeyP

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The lace wings are pretty big, size of a medium sedge at least. Similar flight too.[COLOR="Silver"]

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However the wings are definately sedge like

Just seen sharkeys post.... do they appear green? ( we dont get stone flies)

I'd say the overall impression of a stonefly is dark brown with flashes of olive/yellow on the abdomen. Nothing like as green as a lacewing, but lacewings don't hold their wings flat as described. Their egg sack is greenish.

SharkeyP

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That looks brown to me ....my little fella was medium green.

Managed to catch fish and avoid the blank though, by moving to another part of the river and doing the klink and dink !

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Yellow Sally(isoperla grammatica) maybe?

Isoperla grammatica

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Could well be a yellow Sally, although i cant see if that fly is greenish underneath - or yellow !

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Most of the ones I have seen are a green rather than yellow colour Like all flies they seem to darken as they get older, I also think temperature can affect the colouring too.

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