Hex Mayflies
Hexagenia limbata

The famous nocturnal Hex hatch of the Midwest (and a few other lucky locations) stirs to the surface mythically large brown trout that only touch streamers for the rest of the year.

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Fly Fishing and Aquatic Entomology Books

I wrote much of this site by combining and reconciling information from different angler-entomology books, professional entomology books, and scientific papers. They're all cited on the pages where their information is used. This page only lists the books.

Arbona, Fred Jr. 1989. Mayflies, the Angler, and the Trout. Nick Lyons Books.
Bates, Joseph D. Jr. 1966. Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing . The Stackpole Company.
Behnke, Robert J. 2002. Trout and Salmon of North America. The Free Press.
Bergman, Ray. 1976. Trout. The Derrydale Press.
Berner, Lewis, and Manuel L. Pescador. 1988. The Mayflies of Florida.
Borger, Gary A. 1991. Designing Trout Flies. Tomorrow River Press.
Brigham, W.U., A.K. Brigham, and A. Gnilke. 1982. Aquatic Insects and Oligochaetes of North and South Carolina. Midwest Aquatic Entomologist.
Burks, B.D. 1953. The Mayflies, or Ephemeroptera, of Illinois . Entomological Reprint Specialists.
Caposella, Jim. 2002. Good Fishing in the Catskills . Backcountry Guides.
Caucci, Al. 2011. The Mayfly Guide. Scott & Nix, Inc.
Caucci, Al and Bob Nastasi. 1983. Instant Mayfly Identification Guide. Comparahatch Ltd.
Caucci, Al and Nastasi, Bob. 2004. Hatches II. The Lyons Press.
Cutter, Ralph. 2005. Fish Food: A Fly Fisher's Guide to Bugs and bait. Stackpole Books.
Fauceglia, Ted. 2005. Mayflies . Stackpole Books.
Filkins, Kenn. 2000. Fly Fishing for Salmon and Steelhead of the Great Lakes. Wilderness Adventure Books.
Flannagan, John F., and K. Eric Marshall. 1980. Advances in ephemeroptera biology. Plenum Press.
Galloup, Kelly. 2001. Cripples & Spinners. Dean Publishing.
Gierach, John. 1994. Dances with Trout. FIRESIDE.
Gonzales, Lloyd. 2005. Fly-Fishing Pressured Water. Stackpole Books.
Hafele, Rick and Hughes, Dave. 1981. The Complete Book of Western Hatches: An Angler's Entomology and Fly Pattern Field Guide. Frank Amato Publications.
Hafele, Rick and Hughes, Dave. 2004. Western Mayfly Hatches. Frank Amato Publications.
Harvey, George W. 1985. Techniques of Trout Fishing and FlyTying. Metz Hatchery.
Hughes, Dave. 1995. Wet Flies. Stackpole Books.
Hughes, Dave. 2002. Trout from Small Streams . Stackpole Books.
Hughes, Dave. 1999. Trout Flies. Stackpole Books.
Hughes, Dave. 2001. Matching Mayflies. Frank Amato Publications.
Humphreys, Joseph B. 1981. Joe Humphrey's Trout Tactics. Stackpole Books.
Jorgensen, Poul. 1999. Salmon Flies. Stackpole Books.
Juracek, John and Mathews, Craig. 1992. Fishing Yellowstone Hatches. Blue Ribbon Flies.
Kustich, R. and Jerry Kustich. 1999. Fly Fishing for Great Lakes Steelhead - An Advanced Look at an Emerging Fishery (Hardcover) . West River Publishing.
LaFontaine, Gary. 1990. The Dry Fly: New Angles . The Lyons Press.
LaFontaine, Gary. 1981. Caddisflies. The Lyons Press.
Lee, Art. 1998. Tying and Fishing the Riffling Hitch. Human Kinetics Publishers.
Leeson, Ted and Jim Schollmeyer. 1998. The Fly Tier's Benchside Reference to Techniques and Dressing Styles. Frank Amato Publications Inc.
Linsenman Bob and Kelly Galloup. 1999. Modern Streamers for Trophy Trout: New Techniques, Tactics, and Patterns (Paperback) . The Countryman Press.
MacQuarrie, Gordon. 1995. More Stories of the Old Duck Hunters. Willow Creek Press.
Marinaro, Vincent. 1973. A Modern Dry-Fly Code. Crown Publishers, Inc.
Marinaro, Vincent C. 1976. The Ring of the Rise. The Lyons Press.
McCafferty, W.P. 1983. Aquatic Entomology: The Fishermen's Guide and Ecologists' Illustrated Guide to Insects and Their Relatives. Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
McCafferty, W.P., Jacobus, L.M., Provonsha, A.V., and Wiersema, N.A. 2017. Chapter 2 (Ephemeroptera) of Larvae of the Southeastern USA Mayfly, Stonefly, and Caddisfly Species. Clemson University Public Service Publishing. 10-160.
Merritt R.W., Cummins, K.W., and Berg, M.B. 2019. An Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America (Fifth Edition). Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.
Needham, James G., Jay R. Traver, and Yin-Chi Hsu. 1935. The Biology of Mayflies. Comstock Publishing Company, Inc.
Newman, Eric. 2002. Flyfisher's Guide to New York. Wilderness Adventures Press, Inc.
Osthoff, Rich. 2001. No Hatch to Match. Stackpole Books.
Osthoff, Rich. 1999. Fly-Fishing the Rocky Montain Backcountry. Stackpole Books.
Peckarsky, Barbara. 1990. Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of Northeastern North America. Comstock Publishing.
Peper, Eric and Gary LaFontaine. 2003. Fly Fishing the Beaverkill . The Lyons Press.
Pobst, Dick. 1990. Trout Stream Insects: An Orvis Streamside Guide. The Lyons Press.
Quinn, Thomas P. 2005. The Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout. University of Washigton Press.
Rosenbauer, Tom. 1998. The Orvis Guide to Reading Trout Streams. The Lyons Press.
Rosenbauer, Tom. 2000. The Orvis Guide to Prospecting for Trout . The Lyons Press.
Rosenbauer, Tom. 2000. The Orvis Streamside Guide To Leaders, Knots, and Tippets. The Lyons Press.
Schollmeyer, Jim. 2001. Nymph Fly-Tying Techniques . Frank Amato Publications.
Schwiebert, Ernest. 1984. Death of a Riverkeeper . Creative Arts Book Company.
Schwiebert, Ernest. 1973. Nymphs. Wichester Press.
Schwiebert, Ernest. 1990. The Compleat Schwiebert . Dutton Adult.
Schwiebert, Ernest G. 2007. Nymphs Volume I: The Mayflies: The Major Species. The Lyons Press.
Schwiebert, Ernest G. 2007. Nymphs Volume II: Stoneflies, Caddisflies, and Other Important Insects: Including the Lesser Mayflies. The Lyons Press.
Schwiebert, Ernest G. 1955. Matching the Hatch. MacMillan Publishing Company.
Schwiebert, Ernest G. 1984. Remembrances of Rivers Past. Donald S. Ellis.
Schwiebert, Ernest G. 1978. Trout. E.P. Dutton.
Scott, Jack. 1982. Greased Line Fishing for Salmon [and Steelhead]. Frank Amato Publications.
Stalcup, Shane. 2002. Mayflies "Top to Bottom" . Frank Amato Publications.
Stark, B.P. 2017. Chapter 3 (Plecoptera) of Larvae of the Southeastern USA Mayfly, Stonefly, and Caddisfly Species. Clemson University Public Service Publishing. 161-247.
Stehr, Frederick W. 1998. Immature Insects. Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.
Streeter, Robert W. 2000. New York Fly-Fishing Guide. Frank Amato Publishers.
Supinski, Matt. 2001. Steelhead Dreams: The Theory, Method, Science and Madness of Great Lakes Steelhead Fly Fishing (Paperback) . Frank Amato Publications.
Swisher, Doug and Carl Richards. 2000. Selective Trout. The Lyons Press.
Swisher, Doug and Carl Richards. 1991. Emergers . The Lyons Press.
Thomas C. Grubb Jr. 2003. The Mind of the Trout. University of Wisconsin Press.
Thurston, Jay. 2005. Following in the Footsteps of Ernest Hemingway. Savage Press.
Usinger, R.L. 1956. Aquatic Insects California, with keys to North American Genera and California species. University of California Press.
Usinger, Robert L. 1956. Aquatic Insects of California, with Keys to North American Genera and California Species. University of California Press.
Wright, Leonard M. Jr. 1972. Fishing the Dry Fly as a Living Insect . E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.

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Fly Fishing and Aquatic Entomology Books

Fly Fishing and Aquatic Entomology Books

Hex Mayflies
Hexagenia limbata