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What's your favorite insect hatch to fish?

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QUOTE (conehead @ Jan 14 2005, 02:17 PM)
Taxon,

You started something man. This is reel talk (OK poor pun).

I am from south central PA.

My favorite trout hatches are crane and caddis flies.

They are an unmistakable profile on the surface. I have had trout leave the water before the fly landed to attack a crane fly pattern (this happened several times on Penn’s creek, how about it Pennscreekrules?)

Caddis flies because the nymph fishing of caddis is like taking candy from a baby. Second I can have a little drag in my Caddis dry fly and the trout think it is just skating and egg laying.

For Smallmouth on the Susquehanna, it has to be the white fly. The water boils with fish eating. Every fish in the river makes an appearance.

My most favorite hatch is that of the coneheads. You never seem them leave the water. But tie on an imitation using a conehead and you will get fish.

Conehead
Coniathies Greatousours, the Latin name

Conehead-

 

My goodness, you've certainly got a lot of favorite hatches. Guess you're simply more blessed than some of us. I'll give you three, but the Conehead hatch is just too much, even thought you have a Latin name for it. LOL.

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Tough call on this one. Had quite a bit of fun last year on the Beaver fishin those mayfly hatches. But got some steelies in the Sydenham on caddis early fall. Hmmmmm....

 

Yup gotta be the caddis hatch, myself I use an elk hair pattern. headbang.gif

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QUOTE (JasonN @ Jan 14 2005, 05:48 PM)
Well despite all the studying I've done on it, I'm still pretty new to fly fishing so I don't have a lot of repeat experiences with hatches. Actually, I don't have any. But my favorite hatch so far is definitely Isonychia bicolor. When I fished it this year, it lasted for a few weeks and was rarely very intense, but since it was a long-lasting sporadic emergence of big meaty flies it got the big trout looking up all the time. I was able to get them on those imitations even when there was no hatch ongoing at that particular minute. And when occasionally they emerged thick enough to constitute a "real" hatch... MAN the trout went wild for them. I had one night like that and landed two 16s, a 17, two 18s, and a 21, all wild browns. It was my best day of trout fishing ever.

By the way, these were the midwestern Isonychia bicolor strain, the ones that used to be known as Isonychia sadleri and that emerge on the top of the water in late June or so. I didn't have as much luck in September with the Catskill Isonychia bicolor hatch, which largely emerges by crawling out onto the rocks and didn't seem to cause as much excitement with the fish.

This is how the tally stands at the moment:

 

10 for Caddisfly hatches

8 for Mayfly hatches

3 for Terrestrial hatches (1 Beetle, 1 Hopper, 1 unspecified)

2 for Stonefly hatches

1 for Chironomid hatches

1 for Mystery Bug (to be identified later)

1 for Cranefly hatches

 

So far we've heard from at least one flyfisher in each of the following locations:

 

Washington (Taxon)

Michigan (steeldrifter, Airhead)

Pennsylvania (jmmccutc, mcfly, pennscreekrules, luvinbluegills, Conehead)

Nova Scotia (Daryn Smith)

Utah (nightfish)

Australia (Smuggler)

Ohio (fishintalk)

British Columbia (tattooedtrout)

Kentucky (getholdofjoru)

Tennessee (appalachian angler)

Ontario (tightlines, vices)

Oregon (Smokeytrout)

Minnesota (JasonN)

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Let me first say that i am not that experience in the hatches but for only fly fishing for over a year the most pleasureable time i had was with my brother on the Yellowstone river in Livingston,MT during the i believe was a Mayfly Hatch.Nothing like standing in the middle of a bunch of flying torpedoes swarming ya and the fishing was the best.Now i will say that this topick is great and enjoyable.For the record i live in Michigan.I one day hope to see the hatches here in Mi.

 

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QUOTE (Mr. Trout @ Jan 14 2005, 09:26 PM)
Tough call on this one. Had quite a bit of fun last year on the Beaver fishin those mayfly hatches. But got some steelies in the Sydenham on caddis early fall. Hmmmmm....

Yup gotta be the caddis hatch, myself I use an elk hair pattern. headbang.gif

Mr. Trout-

 

Okay, got you covered; caddisfly hatch, and you're from Ontario.

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Hi everybody on this wonderful furum.

I'ma from Bulgaria and some of my favourite flies for chubs are the ants, beetles, and wasps:

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Each summer I fish chub in my home river Struma.

Here you are some pictures from one of my articles about a outles last summer:

http://www.akulata.com/izlet_1.html

I hope you like them, and if you want I can tell you more about flyfishing in Bulgaria.

 

Best to all of you,

 

Radoslav Kiskinov - the Shark

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QUOTE (Radoslav Kiskinov @ Jan 15 2005, 05:04 AM)
Hi everybody on this wonderful furum.
I'ma from Bulgaria and some of my favourite flies for chubs are the ants, beetles, and wasps.

Shark-

 

Nicely tied flies.

 

This is how the tally stands at the moment:

 

11 for Caddisfly hatches

9 for Mayfly hatches

4 for Terrestrial hatches (2 Beetles, 1 Hopper, 1 unspecified, 1 Ant, 1 Wasp)

2 for Stonefly hatches

2 for True Fly hatches (1 Chironomid, 1 Cranefly)

1 for Mystery Bug (to be identified later)

 

So far, we've heard from at least one flyfisher in each of the following locations:

 

Australia (Smuggler)

British Columbia (tattooedtrout)

Bulgaria (Radoslav Kiskinov)

Kentucky (getholdofjoru)

Michigan (steeldrifter, Airhead, trout traveler)

Minnesota (JasonN)

Nova Scotia (Daryn Smith)

Ohio (fishintalk)

Ontario (tightlines, vices, Mr. Trout)

Oregon (Smokeytrout)

Pennsylvania (jmmccutc, mcfly, pennscreekrules, luvinbluegills, Conehead)

Tennessee (appalachian angler)

Utah (nightfish)

Washington (Taxon)

--------------- ----------------

14 locations 22 flyfishers

 

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QUOTE ("Taxon")
This is how the tally stands at the moment:

Hi, Taxon,

this is a very good idea to gather such a statistics. congratulations.

If you permit, I have some else patterns to join to those my flies:

beatle:

http://akulata.com/catalog/2.jpg

hornet:

http://akulata.com/catalog/osa2.jpg

wasp:

http://moderators.akulata.com/rado/wasp_a.jpg

 

And my favourite hare's ear nymph - "Dirty Harry", for each time of the year:

http://www.zonitza.com/catalog/Muhi2.jpg

and the best of my caddis pupa immitation - "The Blond Stefany":

http://www.akulata.com/catalog/nimfa6.jpg

 

Best to you all guys!

 

Rado

 

 

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Taxon,

 

I accept your rejection of the conehead hatch. I'm used to the conehead rejection.

 

Here are the white flies we have hatching in central PA.

 

 

http://www.flytyingforum.com/uploads/galle...e9dfb7cf85d.jpg

 

 

It looks like a moth or miller when it flies, but I don't think it's related to the caddis, seems to be a type of Mayfly. The hatch gets so thick you can't talk or you will suck them in. Sometimes I have had to hold my hand over my nose and mouth as I walked out of the water. A great hatch.

 

Conehead

 

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QUOTE (conehead @ Jan 15 2005, 10:45 PM)
Here are the white flies we have hatching in central PA.

It looks like a moth or miller when it flies, but I don't think it's related to the caddis, seems to be a type of Mayfly. The hatch gets so thick you can't talk or you will suck them in. Sometimes I have had to hold my hand over my nose and mouth as I walked out of the water. A great hatch.

Conehead

Conehead-

 

The White Fly is a common name for Ephoron, a genus of Pale Burrower Mayflies. This is an unusual genus in a number of ways. For one thing the adult males have only two tails, whereas the females have three. And then, unlike the males, the females don’t have both a dun and spinner stage. Rather, they emerge as sexually mature adults. Thirdly, the legs of both sexes, with the exception of forelegs of the male, are so atrophied, that it doesn’t seem possible that they could actually be functional; although, they are.

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QUOTE (bly65 @ Jan 16 2005, 11:08 AM)
Would have to be the Sulpher or Trico hatch on the Yellow Breeches in PA

bly65-

 

Although Mayfly hatchs fell behind early, they are closing fast!

 

This is how the tally stands at the moment:

 

11 for Caddisfly hatches

10 for Mayfly hatches

4 for Terrestrial hatches (2 Beetles, 1 Hopper, 1 unspecified, 1 Ant, 1 Wasp)

2 for Stonefly hatches

2 for True Fly hatches (1 Chironomid, 1 Cranefly)

1 for Mystery Bug (to be identified later)

 

So far we've heard from at least one flyfisher in each of the following locations:

 

Australia (Smuggler)

British Columbia (tattooedtrout)

Bulgaria (Radoslav Kiskinov)

Kentucky (getholdofjoru)

Michigan (steeldrifter, Airhead, trout traveler)

Minnesota (JasonN)

Nova Scotia (Daryn Smith)

Ohio (fishintalk)

Ontario (tightlines, vices, Mr. Trout)

Oregon (Smokeytrout)

Pennsylvania (jmmccutc, mcfly, pennscreekrules, luvinbluegills, Conehead, bly65)

Tennessee (appalachian angler)

Utah (nightfish)

Washington (Taxon)

--------------- ----------------

14 locations 23 flyfishers

 

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My favorite hatch is the taeniopteryx nebulosa wich is part of the stonefly family. Here in Finland it starts the season for many flyfishers because it's the first dryflyevent of the year. It hatches when the temperature rises few degrees above zero (celsius) so there is still alot of snow on the ground and water is cold. Many fishers use the nymph of the bug but I think it's more fun to use dryflies when you have the opportunity.

here's a pic of the nasty bugger and some other pics if the link works correctly.

taeniopteryx nebulosa

 

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Well Taxon we are getting very neat ALPHABETICAL indeed.

The Mayfly Dun won the Ozzie FlyLife thread. Must admit the dun was my first fly fishing experience, breathtaking. Just returned from a mountain river and the little browns loved a sulphur paradun on an ultra-lite rod great fun.

 

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Shark great flies, I like clapping.gif

 

Cheers

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