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.

We were lucky to be able to fish through this storm as it skirted around us to the north, giving us just enough clouds to prompt a BWO hatch but keeping the lighting at a safe distance.

From Slough Creek in Wyoming

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Lateral view of a Male Baetidae (Blue-Winged Olive) Mayfly Dun from Mystery Creek #308 in Washington

This dun emerged from a mature nymph on my desk. Unfortunately its wings didn't perfectly dry out.

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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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Sorry about all that spam -- I think I cleaned it all.

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Troutnut on Nov 19, 2011November 19th, 2011, 10:35 am EST

This morning some jerk in Beijing, China attacked the forum with a script that posted thousands of spam messages under about five different usernames. I fixed it all in about five minutes by manually editing the database, and banned their IPs, but they could find a way back and do it again. If you see that again, please just send me a private message (like Jonathan did this time -- thanks!) and I'll get right on fixing it.

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Softhackle

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Softhackle on Nov 19, 2011November 19th, 2011, 11:11 am EST

They are pains in the rear.

Mark

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Falsifly

Hayward, WI.

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Falsifly on Nov 19, 2011November 19th, 2011, 11:47 am EST

I fixed it all in about five minutes

Maybe we should send Jason to China to visit with Hu Jintao.

Falsifly
When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that."

Entoman

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Entoman on Nov 19, 2011November 19th, 2011, 1:05 pm EST

Wow, that was wild. The weird thing is that there were no marketing links that I could see. Testing capabilities for cyber war?

"It's not that I find fishing so important, it's just that I find all other endeavors of Man equally unimportant... And not nearly as much fun!" Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman

Troutnut

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Troutnut on Nov 19, 2011November 19th, 2011, 4:23 pm EST

The weird thing is that there were no marketing links that I could see. Testing capabilities for cyber war?

More likely, they were applying a script that doesn't understand how to post links so they show up on this site. I doubt there's even a real person overseeing the attack on this site specifically, just someone who turned a script loose to randomly crawl around the web. They probably didn't check to see whether their links worked here or not.

We just got hit with another round and I deleted it. The spammer was only using two IP blocks and I just put in a ban on those (in addition to the specific IP addresses used earlier) so hopefully that'll put an end to it.

Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D.
Troutnut and salmonid ecologist

Falsifly

Hayward, WI.

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Falsifly on Nov 19, 2011November 19th, 2011, 6:49 pm EST

你這裡沒有鱒魚

Falsifly
When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that."

Troutnut

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Bellevue, WA

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Troutnut on Nov 19, 2011November 19th, 2011, 8:53 pm EST

It looks like there is at least one real person in Beijing continuing to spam the site. I'm working on it, and appreciate the messages from people letting me know when he strikes.

Jason Neuswanger, Ph.D.
Troutnut and salmonid ecologist

Entoman

Northern CA & ID

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Entoman on Nov 19, 2011November 19th, 2011, 9:33 pm EST

Allan,

Is that Mandarin for "Spammers, Bugger off!"?

"It's not that I find fishing so important, it's just that I find all other endeavors of Man equally unimportant... And not nearly as much fun!" Robert Traver, Anatomy of a Fisherman