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 seems to lead to Couplet 35 of the Key to Genera of Perlodidae Nymphs and the genus Isoperla, but I'm skeptical that's correct based on the general look. I need to get it under the microscope to review several choices in the key, and it'll probably end up a different Perlodidae.
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Oldredbarn on Jan 30, 2017January 30th, 2017, 1:59 am EST
A couple years back we had someone post a video here of a mayfly hatching. I think it was from Europe and was E danica and they followed it closely as it progressed downstream with its shuck hanging off the back end...Does anyone remember it, and maybe how I can find it?
Spence
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Millcreek on Jan 30, 2017January 30th, 2017, 2:25 am EST
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
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Oldredbarn on Jan 30, 2017January 30th, 2017, 4:29 am EST
Thanks! I got this one...It will work for what I'm doing.
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
Falsifly on Jan 30, 2017January 30th, 2017, 6:30 am EST
Allez-vous nous laisser en suspens Spence?
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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 31, 2017January 31st, 2017, 1:05 am EST
I think I do, Spence. But it was some time back. Chalk stream, documentary style perhaps?