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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Some characteristics from the microscope images for the tentative species id: The postero-lateral projections are found only on segment 9, not segment 8. Based on the key in Jacobus et al. (2014), it appears to key to Neoleptophlebia adoptiva or Neoleptophlebia heteronea, same as this specimen with pretty different abdominal markings. However, distinguishing between those calls for comparing the lengths of the second and third segment of the labial palp, and this one (like the other one) only seems to have two segments. So I'm stuck on them both. It's likely that the fact that they're immature nymphs stymies identification in some important way.
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Wbranch on Jun 26, 2016June 26th, 2016, 1:20 pm EDT
Okay guys I'm in the countdown mode right now. I'm leaving for an overnight stay at BWI (Baltimore Washington International) and ten days of free parking in about an hour. Then Monday morning I fly out to Mpls with an ultimate destination of Great Falls, MT. I arrive at 1:00 p.m. Mountain Time and after buying groceries I should be at my lodging by 3:30. Just in time to unpack all my stuff, inflate my boat, unpack my waders, vest, and one of my rods and get on the river by 6:00 p.m.
If I have good Wi Fi I'll try sending reports.
If I have good Wi Fi I'll try sending reports.
Catskill fly fisher for fifty-five years.
CaseyP on Jun 26, 2016June 26th, 2016, 4:20 pm EDT
oops! gonna hafta install a drool guard on the computer.
cannot wait to see you how do!
cannot wait to see you how do!
"You can observe a lot by watching." Yogi Berra
Oldredbarn on Jun 27, 2016June 27th, 2016, 5:54 am EDT
Good trip, Matt! Have fun.
I'll be heading out that way in August...
Spence
I'll be heading out that way in August...
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
Wiflyfisher on Jun 27, 2016June 27th, 2016, 6:12 am EDT
Matt, have fun!
John S.
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