For all those in the 20/20 club....

[Rockstar Caddis]

or should I say 20/6 club...check this out, I had it on my fav list and ran across it today
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0305/feature3/index.html
hope you like it.

Clinton

[JayMorr]

Very nice pics. Thanks for sharing the article.

JayMorr

[Larry S.]

I thought there might have been some pictures of naked pigmys or somethun............ ;o)

[lone Palm Rods]

Holy May fly batman !!!!!!!

Thanks for sharing that Clinton

[Ouzel]

after your sex organs grow!!!! Small wonder there is no foreplay.

[fish-hunter]

or should I say 20/6 club...check this out, I had it on my fav list and ran across it today
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0305/feature3/index.html
hope you like it.

Clinton

Clinton, could you explain the 20/20 club thing to me, that one slipped right by me.

[Doug S.]

20" fish on a size 20 something or another ??? Guessing....

[fish-hunter]

So, pretty much anyone who has fished the Green or the Snake and had a decent day? :0)

[cheech]

So, pretty much anyone who has fished the Green or the Snake and had a decent day? :0)

Yep 20/20 really isn't that hard. I did it on the Middle last spring. 30/20 (#30 fly, not a 30" fish) really shouldn't be that much harder. I think I'll try this year.

Anyway, that was a cool article. I was in Detroit last year and saw a store the size of Wal-Mart that was covered with big yellow mayflies. There was no water anywhere near me. I snapped some pics, but I can't remember where they went. Mayflies are cool.

[Crosby]

Cheech- Detroit- there was water near- Lake Eire and St.Clair- I used to have the back of the boat covered so thick with them that you could not see what color the canvas was on the boat- when they hatch- there are schuck slicks a 1/4 mile wide and a mile long- walleye fishing gets very tough when this happens.

[cheech]

Cheech- Detroit- there was water near- Lake Eire and St.Clair- I used to have the back of the boat covered so thick with them that you could not see what color the canvas was on the boat- when they hatch- there are schuck slicks a 1/4 mile wide and a mile long- walleye fishing gets very tough when this happens.


I was actually in Northville many miles from the big lakes. maybe that's not far enough. interesting stuff.

[Lonnie]

Sounds like Hexagenia limbata. They hatch in huge numbers and are quite large. They burrow in sandy substrates in slower waters (lakes/ponds or backwaters etc). They have large feathery gills that they "fan" to circulate water across their gills. Truly a cool bug !

In the south we call these guys "coffin flies" I've fished for brookies in a lake when they are comming off. White bugger all night long (look at the nymph and you can see why....) Some folks use big extend body dry flies for these guys for fanstatic dry fly action. They didn't hatch at home in the huge numbers they do in other places, but I have seen them. The hatch is generally only a couple of days to a week.

Mommy:
http://www.ausableanglers.org/Photo%20Gallery/HexLimbata.jpg

Baby:
http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/risc/pubs/aquatic/mayfly/assets/page45.jpg

[cheech]

Sounds like Hexagenia limbata. They hatch in huge numbers and are quite large. They burrow in sandy substrates in slower waters (lakes/ponds or backwaters etc). They have large feathery gills that they "fan" to circulate water across their gills. Truly a cool bug !

In the south we call these guys "coffin flies" I've fished for brookies in a lake when they are comming off. White bugger all night long (look at the nymph and you can see why....) Some folks use big extend body dry flies for these guys for fanstatic dry fly action. They didn't hatch at home in the huge numbers they do in other places, but I have seen them. The hatch is generally only a couple of days to a week.

Mommy:
http://www.ausableanglers.org/Photo%20Gallery/HexLimbata.jpg

Baby:
http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/risc/pubs/aquatic/mayfly/assets/page45.jpg


You are the MAN Lonnie. I never cease to be amazed!

[fish-hunter]

Ditto, but don't get cocky! :0)

[Flyin Ties]

I saw that article when the issue came out, very interesting.
I live in WVC and in about sept./ oct. there is a few weeks when there is a large hatch of pale blue/ grey colored mayflies that cover my neighborhood.
There is no flowing water nearby. Maybe the ponds and ditches? mostly stagnant water though.

[nightfish]

They come off of Decker Lake, and all of the canals that feed into it (5 total). I get them in kearns too, but not like at work. Decker is directly across the street, and they are so thick that all the lights are covered with them, and I'm sure we ship thousands of them out to unexpecting customers. Very similar to a callibaetis, but the wing is unmarked, and a light dun. ?

The hatch (#14-16) lasts about a week, with a 2 day peak, starting around dusk, and all the bugs are settled down by 11. Don't know when the spinner fall happens...guessing 5am to just after dawn. A simultaneous midge hatch (#18 olive) comes off, and lasts 3 to 4 weeks.

You know...

There's enough light around Decker that you could easily see to track your line and see a rise...

...Decker has carp and bluegill...


...and I would have to work during the hatch. :(

[Ouzel]

but the last time I saw Decker pond the only thing in it was cans, bottles and a few short legged ducks.

Unless they are pumping water into it most summers it dried up.

[fish-hunter]

but the last time I saw Decker pond the only thing in it was cans, bottles and a few short legged ducks.

Unless they are pumping water into it most summers it dried up.

Decker Lake, is that down by the U.P.S. building by that overpass!

[nightfish]

Yes...by UPS. Wave if you drive by.

Ouzel,
3 years ago they dredged the pond on 1 side, and built a mudflat on the other, installed some nesting boxes, and there's now a fine patch of cattails for bird cover. I even saw a red fox last summer on the shoreline. There's grass all around the lake, a jogging path and benches. The water level does fluctuate, but a good rainstorm will fill it fairly quick. I called the project water manager 2 years ago, who told me about the fish species situation. DWR verified this, and you can often see rings and wakes. It's frozen right now, bit unsafe to get on the ice.

[fish-hunter]

That place used to be such a $3i+ hole! How embarrassing to be seen fly-fishing in that place. LOL