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.

Waterfalls over smooth bedrock above Titcomb Lakes

From Titcomb Basin in Wyoming

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Dorsal view of a Amphizoa (Amphizoidae) Beetle Larva from Sears Creek in Washington

This is the first of it's family I've seen, collected from a tiny, fishless stream in the Cascades. The three species of this genus all live in the Northwest and are predators that primarily eat stonefly nymphs Merritt R.W., Cummins, K.W., and Berg, M.B. (2019).

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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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Three Trouble Makers at the Midwest Fly Fishing Expo the past weekend

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Oldredbarn

Novi, MI

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Oldredbarn on Mar 11, 2014March 11th, 2014, 9:22 am EDT

Joe Humphreys, Eric Stroup, and Landon Mayer.

"Even when my best efforts fail it's a satisfying challenge, and that, after all, is the essence of fly fishing." -Chauncy Lively

"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood

TNEAL
GRAYLING. MICHIGAN

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TNEAL on Mar 11, 2014March 11th, 2014, 10:30 am EDT

I can only assume Jerry Regan was absent.......

Oldredbarn

Novi, MI

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Oldredbarn on Mar 11, 2014March 11th, 2014, 11:06 am EDT

I can only assume Jerry Regan was absent.......

No. He was there. :) He was holding fort as usual.

Has he ever shown you his Parachute Rapala? Or his Parachute Rubber Worm? He said that Grayling Boys have been known to wrap some hackle around a spear.

He has to be one of the more messy guys around! He stands up, after a day of tying, and a half bushel basket of deer hair falls to the floor. I think he can fall asleep in the recliner at home, in front of the TV, and still tie his Hen-Winged Brown Drake Spinner! I am not kidding here...We have wondered if he's tied them in bed...

You know how some folks can't walk and chew gum at the same time? Jerry can wrap flies and talk to just about anyone passing by, 95% of them he knows, and never look down at the fly he's tying! Incredible!

It was getting dangerously deep there in front of the Author's Booth when Humphreys was in it, because Jerry was just across from it...I thought we were about to be drawn into a Black Hole of angler's BS! The universe can only take so much of this...and with me in the middle...well my head was spinning.

Spence

TNEAL
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TNEAL on Mar 11, 2014March 11th, 2014, 2:13 pm EDT

I am at least partially destroyed. I always thought everything Jerry said was without embellishment.....