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Lateral view of a Female Hexagenia limbata (Ephemeridae) (Hex) Mayfly Dun from the Namekagon River in Wisconsin
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.

Dorsal view of a Zapada cinctipes (Nemouridae) (Tiny Winter Black) Stonefly Nymph from the Yakima River in Washington
Nymphs of this species were fairly common in late-winter kick net samples from the upper Yakima River. Although I could not find a key to species of Zapada nymphs, a revision of the Nemouridae family by Baumann (1975) includes the following helpful sentence: "2 cervical gills on each side of midline, 1 arising inside and 1 outside of lateral cervical sclerites, usually single and elongate, sometimes constricted but with 3 or 4 branches arising beyond gill base in Zapada cinctipes." This specimen clearly has the branches and is within the range of that species.
27" brown trout, my largest ever. It was the sub-dominant fish in its pool. After this, I hooked the bigger one, but I couldn't land it.
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Lastchance
Portage, PA

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Lastchance on Oct 6, 2009October 6th, 2009, 11:18 am EDT
This is a link to the Barr BWO Emerger below:
http://www.flyfisherman.com/ftb/jbemerge/index.html


What colors would I use to tie it for Central, PA streams?

I was thinking:
trailing shuck: brown hackle fibers or brown zelon
body: brown/olive thread
thorax: brown/olive dubbing mix
wingcase: gray hackle fibers
Legs: gray hackle fibers pulled back and cut


Do you think I have it nailed? Please advise.

Thanks,
Bruce
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Palmyra PA

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Martinlf on Oct 6, 2009October 6th, 2009, 2:28 pm EDT
That will work, Bruce. I also like a Klinkhamer style emerger with a dark abdomen and lighter thorax for olives.
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"

--Fred Chappell
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Alexandria Pa

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JAD on Oct 7, 2009October 7th, 2009, 2:36 pm EDT
Hi Bruce

We never did meet up, I tie one with pheasant tail and griz parachute hackle with a pink post that has fooled some pressured fish sizes range from 20 to 26. Try dragging a Als Rat behind your emerger- About 12 inches see what happens.

John

They fasten red (crimson red) wool around a hook, and fix onto the wool two feathers which grow under a cock’s wattles, and which in colour are like wax.
Radcliffe's Fishing from the Earliest Times,
Lastchance
Portage, PA

Posts: 437
Lastchance on Oct 8, 2009October 8th, 2009, 12:56 pm EDT
HI John: Hope all is well with you. I hope you're catching a bunch of fish. I guess the thorax is olive on the PT and grizzly you tie? I never though of tying Al's Rat. I've heard of it, but never have fished it.
Bruce
Lastchance
Portage, PA

Posts: 437
Lastchance on Oct 9, 2009October 9th, 2009, 4:11 am EDT
What do you guys think of using some kind of gray antron, ice dub, poly yarn, etc. for the win case?

What color is the thorax on these fall olives?
Martinlf
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Palmyra PA

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Martinlf on Oct 11, 2009October 11th, 2009, 3:30 am EDT
Hi Bruce,

I caught fish this weekend with an emerger that has an olive body and thorax. I used CDC for wing sprouts and a yellow polyyarn wingcase to split the short CDC fibers. The wingcase is more for flotation and visibility. I think any number of things could work, and for the Barr's emerger, using polyyarn for the wingcase and tying back some strands for legs/wing sprouts, might make a very good emerger for the film, if you can figure out a way to see it. Perhaps hang it behind a dry, as John suggests. Best of luck! Some of the olives now are small, size 22 or 24.
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"

--Fred Chappell

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