10) Extend the Hatch When mayflies stop emerging and the action dies down, the fishing isn't necessarily over, as long as you're willing to search a bit. A friend and former guide showed me how to extend the hatch on a stream in central Oregon. After a hatch of March browns finally petered out, he took me on a walk to look for bankside eddies, slow spots beside fast chutes, slack water pockets, and any areas where foam had collected. A lot of mayflies, he explained, don't successfully emerge during a hatch (fly anglers call them stillborns or cripples), and others are capsized by choppy water. These unfortunates collect in the calmer waters of the stream, and we found trout rising to them long after the actual hatch was history. ntral Oregon. After a hatch of March browns finally petered out, he took me on a walk to look for bankside eddies, slow spots beside fast chutes, slack water pockets, and any areas where foam had collected. A lot of mayflies, he explained, don't successfully emerge during a hatch (fly anglers call them stillborns or cripples), and others are capsized by choppy water. These unfortunates collect in the calmer waters of the stream, and we found trout rising to them long after the actual hatch was history.

Ted Leeson