Where are you from?..sounds like back East. My Pink Albert, Pale Evening Dun is a clinger as well. Many anglers group it right in with the smaller Pale Morning Dun, that is a crawler in the nymph, but it is not..tends to come off after the PMD's come off earlier in the day, and comes off later in the Summer for us..Mid-July into Sept. and extends that light colored mayfly fishing my favorite. A Pink bodied Comparadun can work for both, but the Pink Albert is considerably bigger.

backcast..Thanks for the troutnut site..I've bookmarked that one. Here is an interesting one for those interested in bug hatches. I just read an article by a entomologist that shedded good light on when bugs hatch. It is not by the temperature of the water reached like most think. It is the accumulation of points lets say from the time the egg was laid. A species has so many total points to reach throughout the insects transformation life in the water. Each 24 hr. period a pt. total is credited towards hatching throughout the season. If you had a warmer winter, and the water temp was a few degrees warmer than normal, the bugs point total would be greater giving points for each day in the water. This is why the hatch is not consistent with the temp reached. You can not say they come of at let's say 50 degrees, They come off when the total points are reached, and that can be close year after year, but why it can be off by a week, or two as well. I hope I explained that somewhat coherently. The biologist explained it much better, and the only time I have ever heard it explained in those terms, and very informative.

It could happen regardless of the water temp based on the entomologists approach to hatching as the aquatic insect acquires a 24 warm water value every day from the egg on. The total necessary for hatching could be achieved I think at different temps according to the total warmth factor given a quantified number up to that point. I think now that I read it in the first few pages of posts published in Fly Fisherman Magazine. Different posts on different subjects were presented, and this entomologist presented his on why hatching takes place. I have used streamside thermometers based on the magic temp number given me by the experts as to when a hatch would take place..principally the Salmon Fly hatch on the SF of the Snake.

Big time steelhead guy. The most exciting experience I have ever had in all of fly fishing, is to swing a dry fly, or a waking fly, slightly subsurface fly on a dryline and experience the explosion on the surface of a steelhead that rises, and takes the fly....then the discipline of doing NOTHING until the rod tip goes down, and you know the fly is in the steelhead's mouth, as he dives with it. That is an incredible experience beyond belief. I lived right on one of WA best steelhead rivers, and played that scenario out a 1,000 times using 9' 6 wt rods, and smaller steelhead flies that were much like soft hackles in #8 was standard. and often #10's It most often happened in the Fall of the year, low clear water, and very little competition as many anglers had turned to hunting in the Fall. That is where the ability to cast long really is a benefit, and to be able to do it in a routine involving little false casting,...strip, roll out the line, pick it up and shoot it out. Doesn't have to be 80 ft. of line, but 60 ft. is often nice. It creates a much longer fishing arc with the fly moving down and across in front of a steelhead.