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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Setvena wahkeena (Wahkeena Springfly) Stonefly Nymph Setvena wahkeena (Wahkeena Springfly) Stonefly Nymph

Dorsal view of a Setvena wahkeena (Perlodidae) (Wahkeena Springfly) Stonefly Nymph from Mystery Creek #199 in Washington

As far as I can tell, this species has only previously been reported from one site in Oregon along the Columbia gorge. However, the key characteristics are fairly unmistakable in all except for one minor detail:
— 4 small yellow spots on frons visible in photos
— Narrow occipital spinule row curves forward (but doesn’t quite meet on stem of ecdysial suture, as it's supposed to in this species)
— Short spinules on anterior margin of front legs
— Short rposterior row of blunt spinules on abdominal tergae, rather than elongated spinules dorsally
I caught several of these mature nymphs in the fishless, tiny headwaters of a creek high in the Wenatchee Mountains.

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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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Uffkev

Pretoria South Africa

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Uffkev on Dec 3, 2015December 3rd, 2015, 7:38 pm EST

Hey everyone , just a quick post to just say it's a privilege to be here and I really love the posts . I'm not to great with introductions however I'm Kevin from sunny South Africa and I think I was born with a fly rod In my hand ????, basically fly fished competivley for 4 years for my home province and been invited twice for junior protea trials. I'm a bit older in college now but the love for the sport never died . We recently began a YouTube channel to help get the sport noteriety and to just say to the general public how wrad fly fishing can be .If you're interested go take a look at uncharted fly fishing ????.

Taxon

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Plano, TX

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Taxon on Dec 3, 2015December 3rd, 2015, 8:31 pm EST

Nice informative intro, Kevin. Welcome aboard.

Best regards,
Roger Rohrbeck
www.FlyfishingEntomology.com

Martinlf

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Palmyra PA

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Martinlf on Dec 3, 2015December 3rd, 2015, 8:43 pm EST

Welcome, Kevin, That's quite a beast in your photo. Could you tell us a bit about it? Taken on the fly?

"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"

--Fred Chappell

Uffkev

Pretoria South Africa

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Uffkev on Dec 4, 2015December 4th, 2015, 4:06 am EST

That beautiful 90kg specimen was caught in a mountainous lake in phuket Thailand. I was using a 12wt guide series and a rio tarpon intermediate line . Funnily enough I used a self tied whistler quite common for Tigerfish but I just supersized it ha ha .

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