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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Zapada cinctipes (Tiny Winter Black) Stonefly Nymph Zapada cinctipes (Tiny Winter Black) Stonefly Nymph

Dorsal view of a Zapada cinctipes (Nemouridae) (Tiny Winter Black) Stonefly Nymph from the Yakima River in Washington

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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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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The loveliness of a small northern lower Michigan trout stream in August

Jmd123 has attached these 13 pictures. The message is below.

Beautiful wild fish, missed at least three strikes by this one the previous trip here, got it on the first cast with a #10 modified Joe's Hopper - and fought way hard for it's size!

Virgin's Bower is in full bloom right now (another shot for Spence & his better half!) ;oD

Virgin's-Bower covering a tree branch overhanging trout water

The "Five-Hole" (hockey pun intended...) - first time I fished this pool, I caught five trout! Brookies, browns, and rainbows have all hit my dry flies in this nice little spot.

Field mint (Mentha arvensis) - this plant makes the best mint tea in the known Universe! Pick fresh leaves, steep in boiled water for 5-10 minutes, add sugar as desired, and enjoy!

The first "Rearing Pond" - an obviously artificially deep hole that was supposedly dug out for rearing trout - the rest of the stream is ankle-to-knee deep with occasional areas that get waist to maybe chest deep...but this goes over my head, I know because I took a swim!!!

Blue vervain (Verbena hastata) - for Paul! ;oD

One more shot of that little wild rainbow...

Jmd123

Oscoda, MI

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Jmd123 on Aug 28, 2013August 28th, 2013, 10:18 pm EDT

Just had to post a few more pics of the Pine, this time from both the Buhl Dam section and the Rearing Pond Road area. Even though the fish have been running small, the scenery has been just spectacular as of late with the mass blooming of wetland wildflowers along the banks. Threw in a couple of pics of a wild little (9") rainbow too just to show you what the fish look like, though a photo never does a fish justice, especially in the glowing light of the sunset. Enjoy!

Jonathon

P.S. Fish were hitting that modified #10 Joe's Hopper like mad until sundown...

No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...

Martinlf