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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Lateral view of a Onocosmoecus (Limnephilidae) (Great Late-Summer Sedge) Caddisfly Larva from the Yakima River in Washington

This specimen keys pretty easily to Onocosmoecus, and it closely resembles a specimen from Alaska which caddis expert Dave Ruiter recognized as this genus. As with that specimen, the only species in the genus documented in this area is Onocosmoecus unicolor, but Dave suggested for that specimen that there might be multiple not-yet-distinguished species under the unicolor umbrella and it would be best to stick with the genus-level ID. I'm doing the same for this one.

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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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Steelhead video footage

Pryal74 has attached these 8 pictures to this report. The message is below.

This stonefly hatch was incredible, they were dropping on the water everywhere!

Report at a Glance

General Region	The Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Specific Location	Somewhere =)
Dates Fished	04-01-2012
Time of Day	Afternoon
Fish Caught	7 Steelhead
Conditions & Hatches	Warm! Water temps over 50+ degrees. Air temps 55+ degrees. Stoneflies hatches and dropping eggs everywhere!!

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Pryal74

Escanaba, MI

Posts: 168

Pryal74 on Apr 1, 2012April 1st, 2012, 7:08 pm EDT

No April fools today!

I hope it's alright to post videos on here. The only problem is it's from my youtube channel. The first video is from that giant I landed last week. The second is from a solid male I fought and lost today.