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.

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Limnephilus (Summer Flier Sedge) Caddisfly Larva Limnephilus (Summer Flier Sedge) Caddisfly Larva

Case view of a Limnephilus (Limnephilidae) (Summer Flier Sedge) Caddisfly Larva from the Yakima River in Washington

This seems to be a young larva of Limnephilus. Although not clear in the picture, several ventral abdominal segments have chloride epithelia.

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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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HackleHead site's back online & debugged

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Troutnut on Mar 17, 2011March 17th, 2011, 3:20 pm EDT

I've had some terrible downtime with the HackleHead fly tying contest / fly gallery website, but now it's back up and running. For those of you with flies on display there, sorry it took so long!!

Apart from the nothing-working-at-all error, there was a small problem that caused errors only on specific pages on the site. I tracked that one down and fixed it, too.

Everything should be working normally there now.

Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D.
Troutnut and salmonid ecologist