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Uploaded on July 01, 2011I just saw a Hex on my window screen! It must have molted there, because there was a molted skin below it. My question is where would it have came from? I have a spring creek by me and a rather large warm river. Better odds from the creek or the river? Any good info on them anyone would like to share? I know the basics about them, but angler info is always the best!
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The odds you want to figure, is where was the river that had a muddy bottom?
the nymphs burrow in the mud to develop. Mud/silt it could be. They get blown some distance from the river, or Lake. Lake Erie gets a massive hex hatch around the 4th. My brother is a charter boat skipper on Lake Erie, and the walleye bit turns off big time. Walleye that get caught are stuffed with the Hex nymphs. They come off at nite. A moonlit nite you can fish them. You got me thinkin now. They come off on my Snake River right abouts now, and in our downtown section. I may tie up a big, yellow may, and give it a try one of these evenings.
What about the molted skin? Would that be a dun molting into a spinner?
Smerf, yeah, that would be the shuck from the dun as it molts into the spinner. According to Kelly Galloup, the spinner fall is the most important phase of the lifecycle for the fisherman-what some people think of as the hatch is actually the dying bugs on the water-again, that's as KG tells it, and he's a Michigander by birth, where the Hex's are a big deal.
Went into our flyshop several years ago, and walked up to the counter to pay, and there was a Hex on the cash register. I got all excited, and told they guy about it, and he said yes, it was on the outside of the building, and we brought it in, and put it on the cash register. I would think that fish get a shot at the duns as well, as the "wiggler" nymphs do not crawl out onto the shore but wiggle to the surface, and transform to the dun, but maybe they escape the surface fast, and aren't available to the fish, although most big mays, called Drakes float for some distance having to dry their wings. We've got Grey Drakes, Green Drakes, and Brown Drakes hatching right now on the Henry's Fork.
Oooh, Sayfu, the Brown Drakes you have there are the same species we have in the east, ephemera simulans. Don't know if they hatch with the same intensity as here, but a great hatch for about a week or so on the waters I fish. Come off right at dusk and keep going 'till you can't see your fly any more. Big bugs that seem to bring up all the fish in the river, and emergers are the ticket, but they'll eat duns too. A wiggle nymph stripped just under the surface is killer, and actually seems to work better as the hatch period progresses. Have fun with 'em...I'm envious, as they are done for the year here!
Smerf, in all likelyhood you have a Brown Drake hatch in your area too, though they may be done for the year. They hatch about the end of May or early June here in NW Pennsylvania.
I was thinking there was a drake of some sort hatching. I saw some pretty thick bugs coming off the water, but very sparsely as it was only morning. I think I missed the march brown and cream cahill hatch, since there were barely any clingers under the rocks (and only small ones at that). Didn't have a great morning, I'm guessing they are stuffed full of mayflies from the past couple weeks. That's what is hard with young kids, I rarely get to fish evenings.
Backcast. I never have fished a brown drake hatch. They come off good in the Railroad Ranch area of the Henry's Fork at Island Park, ID. I seldom fish in the later evening. I'm basically a boater, and am off the water by then. Evenings are a good time for waders...boats off the water on boatable rivers, the angled light hides tippets, the fish get less weary, and the bite can turn on.
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The odds you want to figure, is where was the river that had a muddy bottom?
the nymphs burrow in the mud to develop. Mud/silt it could be. They get blown some distance from the river, or Lake. Lake Erie gets a massive hex hatch around the 4th. My brother is a charter boat skipper on Lake Erie, and the walleye bit turns off big time. Walleye that get caught are stuffed with the Hex nymphs. They come off at nite. A moonlit nite you can fish them. You got me thinkin now. They come off on my Snake River right abouts now, and in our downtown section. I may tie up a big, yellow may, and give it a try one of these evenings.
What about the molted skin? Would that be a dun molting into a spinner?
Smerf, yeah, that would be the shuck from the dun as it molts into the spinner. According to Kelly Galloup, the spinner fall is the most important phase of the lifecycle for the fisherman-what some people think of as the hatch is actually the dying bugs on the water-again, that's as KG tells it, and he's a Michigander by birth, where the Hex's are a big deal.
Went into our flyshop several years ago, and walked up to the counter to pay, and there was a Hex on the cash register. I got all excited, and told they guy about it, and he said yes, it was on the outside of the building, and we brought it in, and put it on the cash register. I would think that fish get a shot at the duns as well, as the "wiggler" nymphs do not crawl out onto the shore but wiggle to the surface, and transform to the dun, but maybe they escape the surface fast, and aren't available to the fish, although most big mays, called Drakes float for some distance having to dry their wings. We've got Grey Drakes, Green Drakes, and Brown Drakes hatching right now on the Henry's Fork.
Oooh, Sayfu, the Brown Drakes you have there are the same species we have in the east, ephemera simulans. Don't know if they hatch with the same intensity as here, but a great hatch for about a week or so on the waters I fish. Come off right at dusk and keep going 'till you can't see your fly any more. Big bugs that seem to bring up all the fish in the river, and emergers are the ticket, but they'll eat duns too. A wiggle nymph stripped just under the surface is killer, and actually seems to work better as the hatch period progresses. Have fun with 'em...I'm envious, as they are done for the year here!
Smerf, in all likelyhood you have a Brown Drake hatch in your area too, though they may be done for the year. They hatch about the end of May or early June here in NW Pennsylvania.
I was thinking there was a drake of some sort hatching. I saw some pretty thick bugs coming off the water, but very sparsely as it was only morning. I think I missed the march brown and cream cahill hatch, since there were barely any clingers under the rocks (and only small ones at that). Didn't have a great morning, I'm guessing they are stuffed full of mayflies from the past couple weeks. That's what is hard with young kids, I rarely get to fish evenings.
Backcast. I never have fished a brown drake hatch. They come off good in the Railroad Ranch area of the Henry's Fork at Island Park, ID. I seldom fish in the later evening. I'm basically a boater, and am off the water by then. Evenings are a good time for waders...boats off the water on boatable rivers, the angled light hides tippets, the fish get less weary, and the bite can turn on.
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