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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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.
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Bippie on Nov 26, 2009November 26th, 2009, 11:37 am EST
One of many.... I forget the name of the creek I was on but it was right at dusk and the bats were starting to fly up and down the creek snatching their evening meal. I was working real hard to get my Badger Bi-Vis to drop just behind a dead fall in the water. After several attempts the fly landed just where I wanted it.... it was in a perfect drift for a good size riser sipping off the surface! Just as it approached the hot zone a bat swooped down and snatched my fly off the water and dropped it about 10 feet beyond the rising trout! If once wasn't bad enough it happened twice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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