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I want to poll everyone on their mayfly stonefly nymph patterns. (I'm leaving caddis out because caddis pupate and therefore does not apply, but if you think it does please say so.) For the mayflies, what percentage of your ties have a white/flash/lighter wingcase than the body of the nymph, what percentage have a darker wingcase, and what percentage have a wingcase similar in color to the rest of the body? For the stones, since they hatch out on land, we can elimnate the lighter wingcase (unless you disagree), so what percentage does the wingcase match the body and what percentage is it darker? I ask because I've been looking at a lot of macro photography of nymphs, and have learned from the various sources that a nymph while in its ordinary course of being on the river bottom is fairly uniform in coloration until it gets ready to hatch, then its wing pads darken in some cases quite profoundly so you have this sandy yellow translucent body and almost black pads. I have seen the gas bubble in pictures that people mention for the hatching mayfly nymph which gave rise to the white or flash wingcase, but its reported so many times that I assume it must be true. Just curious to see what percentage of the time are we fishing what stage in a nymphs life cycle. Thanks.
