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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Limnephilidae (Giant Sedges) Caddisfly Larva Limnephilidae (Giant Sedges) Caddisfly Larva

Dorsal view of a Limnephilidae (Giant Sedges) Caddisfly Larva from the Yakima River in Washington

This specimen resembled several others of around the same size and perhaps the same species, which were pretty common in my February sample from the upper Yakima. Unfortunately, I misplaced the specimen before I could get it under a microscope for a definitive ID.

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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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Stokes on Feb 17, 2014February 17th, 2014, 9:16 am EST

Dont know if it is related,but I cant open the link at the top of the page titled "Trout Streams and Rivers"

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Wiflyfisher on Feb 17, 2014February 17th, 2014, 2:14 pm EST

Jason,

Are you now running your own Linux server? Is your site too big for shared now?

Hopefully you will get back to enjoy "our" river this year.

John
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Troutnut on Feb 17, 2014February 17th, 2014, 11:06 pm EST

Dont know if it is related,but I cant open the link at the top of the page titled "Trout Streams and Rivers"

Thanks! That was an error related to the upgrade. It's fixed now.

Are you now running your own Linux server? Is your site too big for shared now?

I'm still using shared hosting, but it's on a very scalable VPS and I have a fair bit of control over software including the PHP and MySQL versions and configurations.

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Stokes on Feb 18, 2014February 18th, 2014, 12:03 pm EST

Cool,thanks Jason.Great pics.