Don Andersen Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Guys, Found this bug floating across Dickson Trout Pond yesterday. Expect it came from the river. http://photobucket.com/albums/v654/DonAnde..._021a1wcopy.jpg Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Andersen Posted July 22, 2005 Author Share Posted July 22, 2005 Guys, Found this bug floating across Dickson Trout Pond yesterday. Expect it came from the river. The big question is what hook to use. #4 Mustad 79580. Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertabowhunter Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Green drake? or variation of??? just a guess... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian B Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 The kind of hook I would use is one of the Partridge hooks with a extended body- Yorkshire Fly Hook- I have Size 12, picked them up in Country Pleasures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dell Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Hexagenia limbata, one of the biggest mayflies around aka Michigan caddis, though it's not a caddis at all Another photo More photos of nymph and adult That's my best guess. Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacres Posted July 22, 2005 Share Posted July 22, 2005 Wow that thing is huge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Andersen Posted July 22, 2005 Author Share Posted July 22, 2005 Guys, Mike is right - its a Hex. They show up for a very short time and only in numbers late @ nite in creepy crawly places full of beaver holes and bugs. But occasionally they show up on a freestone stream - not often though. Found them first just outside of Rocky. They are a burrower and live in U shaped holes in silt. The Medicine River used to have a sack full of them. Mostly gone now due ot agri-business sewage. If 2 of them discover you fishing, the rumor is that they haul you in the bush and you don't come back. Happy fishing, Don Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albertabowhunter Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 If 2 of them discover you fishing, the rumor is that they haul you in the bush and you don't come back. Don ARe you sure your talking about the flies or Ian? (see Pike on pike thread) :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian B Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 If 2 of them discover you fishing, the rumor is that they haul you in the bush and you don't come back. DonARe you sure your talking about the flies or Ian? (see Pike on pike thread) :lol: Don't be doin that till you hear the story- I was provocted by the slough shark... Thats all I'll say for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerBob Posted July 29, 2005 Share Posted July 29, 2005 But how did it taste? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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