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.

A small spring creek in Wisconsin. A little brook trout stream tumbles over boulders

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Lateral view of a Clostoeca disjuncta (Limnephilidae) (Northern Caddisfly) Caddisfly Larva from the Yakima River in Washington

This one was surprisingly straightforward to identify. The lack of a sclerite at the base of the lateral hump narrows the field quite a bit, and the other options followed fairly obvious characteristics to Clostoeca, which only has one species, Clostoeca disjuncta.

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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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A cool Hendrickson spinner pattern maybe, Page 2

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Njflytyer
Belvidere.NJ

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Njflytyer on Jun 19, 2007June 19th, 2007, 12:17 pm EDT

Troutnut, Sounds like what I was trying to discribe, sorry I wasn't able to help. Just keep tying and fishing and enjoy yourself. Just by chance have you ever camped at Katskill Campground? I camped there from 1992 - 2000 and you remind me of a guy named Dave. I guess that showes my age. Good Luck on the rest of the season. I'm going to try and get up to the Ausable the beging of July and maybe catch the end of the drakes. Tight Lines, Chris

Wbranch

York & Starlight PA

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Wbranch on Mar 15, 2008March 15th, 2008, 1:34 am EDT

There is a little town in NE PA, about twenty miles north of Carbondale, called Pleasant Mount. There is a PA state fish hatchery there that raises zillions of tiger muskies. There is also a large cylindrical fish tank with windows around it and a staircase to the top where you can go up and look into this tank. It has many species of game fish in it. The tiny little creek coming out of the hatchery does have wild brookies in it and I've been told it is the origin site of the Lackawaxen River but don't know that for a fact.

Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.

Oatka1
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Oatka1 on Apr 26, 2008April 26th, 2008, 1:33 pm EDT

Looks great but I would not try to false cast it too much as the wing will definitely cause the tippet to spin, especially if you are down to a 6x in low water conditions. The pattern looks like a good fast water low-light condition fly.

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