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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This one pretty clearly keys to Kogotus, but it also looks fairly different from specimens I caught in the same creek about a month later in the year. With only one species of the genus known in Washington, I'm not sure about the answer to this ID.
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Oldredbarn on Jan 18, 2016January 18th, 2016, 12:19 pm EST
I like the 47 pounder. Most of the (very few) browns in Michigan's upper AuSable this Spring were around .47 pounds.
Tim...They were just hiding from you, my friend...J.R. must of told them you were headed their way and they hid up under some old logs stacked up against an under-cut bank...:) You scare them, sir...All those "old-timey" flies you tote around from the old legends of the Au Sable river valley...Madsen. Borchers. Roberts. They know they can't resist those things...Better just to hide.
Spence
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TNEAL on Jan 19, 2016January 19th, 2016, 6:06 am EST
Perhaps at age 70 they are just getting harder to see............
Oldredbarn on Jan 19, 2016January 19th, 2016, 9:31 am EST
That's funny Tim!
Spence
Spence
"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
"Envy not the man who lives beside the river, but the man the river flows through." Joseph T Heywood
Martinlf on Jan 19, 2016January 19th, 2016, 6:02 pm EST
OK, so this guy from Georgia posts a question: and quite obviously fails to post the photo somehow. Start at the beginning and read the through the posts and you'll find out just how funny the whole thing became. We certainly know how to amuse ourselves with only the smallest excuse. Only on Troutnut.
How big would you guess this trout weights?
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"
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Falsifly on Jan 20, 2016January 20th, 2016, 5:44 am EST
Now that Jaird has finally posted the picture I would say that he is correct in his guestimate of between 10-15 lbs. However I think that could be narrowed down to between 10-12 lbs.
Falsifly
When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that."
When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that."
PaulRoberts on Jan 20, 2016January 20th, 2016, 5:55 am EST
What picture?
Reminds me of a time when a picture in our family photo album came up missing...
Lessee... February, March, ...
Reminds me of a time when a picture in our family photo album came up missing...
Lessee... February, March, ...
Martinlf on Jan 20, 2016January 20th, 2016, 7:36 am EST
However I think that could be narrowed down to between 10-12 lbs.
I respectfully disagree. It's clearly more than 10 pounds, and more like 12-14.
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"
--Fred Chappell
--Fred Chappell
Jmd123 on Jan 20, 2016January 20th, 2016, 8:02 am EST
OK, one last adjustment to my estimate: 10.41 lbs. That's my story and I'm sticking to it...
Jonathon
Jonathon
No matter how big the one you just caught is, there's always a bigger one out there somewhere...
Falsifly on Jan 20, 2016January 20th, 2016, 9:42 am EST
I respectfully disagree. It's clearly more than 10 pounds, and more like 12-14.
I don't know Louis, if you examine the picture, a little more closely, I think that at that particular angle the girth looks a little exaggerated to me.
Falsifly
When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that."
When asked what I just caught that monster on I showed him. He put on his magnifiers and said, "I can't believe they can see that."
Martinlf on Jan 20, 2016January 20th, 2016, 10:27 am EST
Hmmm. The angle may exaggerate the girth. OK, I'll go 11-12 pounds, but not an ounce less.
"He spread them a yard and a half. 'And every one that got away is this big.'"
--Fred Chappell
--Fred Chappell
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