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> Question?????????????????? What The F---.

You know, I ask a serious question about BWOs and I get one response. If I post an inane remark I get followers. I don't get it.
Bruce

• Nobody is really serious about the BWO.
  
• You posted your question in General Discussion instead of Serious Discussion.
  
• Everyone who knows anything about the BWO is out fishing that hatch and doesn’t have time to reply.
  
• Most everyone is still wondering what the hell a BWO is.
  
• Most everyone knows what a BWO is but doesn’t know how to fish it.
  
• People are afraid to answer a serious question because it may appear to be a stupid answer and thus diminish their standing as being taken seriously.
  
• Because inane comes from the Latin word inanis how could you not expect followers?
  
  

This is the largest common species of Baetis on our trout streams, and it can hatch in incredible numbers, drawing impressive rises of selective trout.

Anglers may have read in books about Baetis hiemalis, which is now a synonym of Baetis brunneicolor. It appears to have been a name for the fall-hatching brood of this species, which was reported to prefer slow water and weedy habitat instead of the gravelly riffles of the early summer brood.

Baetis brunneicolor is most often praised for the action it creates in the Midwest, but it is locally abundant in parts of the East and maybe in the West as well.

The duns drift a long distance on the water before taking flight, making them excellent dry-fly insects.