Got to be PMD's. They come off during the nicest time of year, for the longest time,(start of july - into Sept) and at the most comfortable time...say 11AM- 3PM with a spinnerfall often in the evening. Small bug, starts off a #16, and 2nd generation moves to a #18, but I fish them on a #16 short shank dry fly hook. They come off in the riffles so I can get close to them, and with the water choppy, you don't have to go to a fine diameter tippet. I often use 4x tippet..now how good is that? served up on a dinner plate. On top of that on the SF, in AUG we get a lt. colored slightly bigger bug that emerges off say 4-5 o'clock called the Pink Albert that follows right through after the PMD's slow down, and come off in the same riffle water. Timing won't be that way this summer..lots of water and flooding coming our way. Hope you can appreciate this report,..2nd day home form hip replacement surgery so I can get out there, and fish those PMD's,and Pink Alberts!

backcast..I like those middle of the day, small, yellow bugs that come off...up late, have breakfast, put the boat in, and get ready for the hatch. Caddis are great, but often come off during "Happy Hour!"..a real conundrum. :) An interesting one regarding these PMD hatches we have here on the SF of the Snake, is, a lt. pink body for the fly really works best. It has been speculated that is so because of the tint of our water. The other confusion, and it is often made by guides, is the later in the day lt. bug that comes off, and later in the Summer bug (Aug),but overlaps the PMD's and slightly bigger bug with two long tails in the adult, is a clinger mayfly, not the crawler Ephemerella...there are lesser of these that come off, but the fish luv them. Tall, smokey grey wings, and pink really works well..our Pink Alberts, or can be called a Pale Evening Dun. Many combine the both, and call them PMD's, but there is a distinction. I like that Comparadun pattern, or the Sparkle Dun distinguished by the trailing shuck for both of these hatches. Seeing good sized fish coming up and taking bugs on the surface in often shallow water in a side canal, or far off the main flow in a shallow, broken riffle is exciting..hard to settle down and observe, and not start flailing away!